Purchasing Manager

Maine Oxy is seeking an experienced Purchasing Manager to play a critical role in keeping Maine Oxy’s operations running smoothly. Success in tihs role includes managing costs, ensuring product availability, and maintaining strong supplier relationships. This role is accountable for overseeing our procurement activities to ensure that materials, goods, and services are acquired efficiently, cost-effectively, and in alignment with business needs.

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First, here’s what we’re not: Maine Oxy isn’t the typical corporate employer whose leaders lecture employees about what the company culture is, only to have you witness these same leaders act differently. In truth, company cultures are defined by the actions of a company’s senior leadership. Does your employer’s leadership act like their words?

Maine Oxy can’t be untrustworthy like that. Why? Because Maine Oxy is a family-owned company. Our company decisions come with heart because at the end of the day it’s personal to all humans in our organization. Corporate environments don’t have to care about the human aspect of their employees because there’s no family involved in “the bottom line”.

What does Maine Oxy do? We’re more than Propane! Maine Oxy is on a life-saving mission to provide high-quality specialty gases that already make a daily impact on your life! We’re the provider of Oxygen for our local veterinary and medical offices, we’re the provider of Carbon Dioxide for our local breweries, we’re the provider of Helium for everyone’s birthday parties, and we’re the provider of Acetylene for our local welders and metal fabricators.

All 300 of us at Maine Oxy are genuinely kind individuals who get to experience true collaboration. We can rely on integrity from each other, and we work in peace because of our inclusive safety program. The work is challenging for valid reasons, but it is rewarding, and the science of it is really cool!

Ready to be part of a place where your contributions directly impact lives? If you’re confident about your skills and abilities and want to make a real difference in your community, we’d love to welcome you to our team!

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Position Summary

The Purchasing Manager plays a critical role in keeping Maine Oxy’s operations running smoothly by managing costs, ensuring product availability, and maintaining strong supplier relationships. This role is accountable for overseeing our procurement activities to ensure that materials, goods, and services are acquired efficiently, cost-effectively, and in alignment with business needs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supplier Management – Identifies, evaluates, and maintains relationships with suppliers to ensure quality and reliability.
• Cost Control – Negotiates contracts and prices to reduce costs while maintaining quality standards.
• Inventory Management – Ensures that the right amount of stock is available to meet demand without excessive surplus through timely and accurate placement of purchase orders in accordance with the approved supplier list, while maximizing the savings achieved in each transaction.
• Quality Assurance – Ensures purchased goods and services meet required specifications and quality standards, such as performing data analysis to provide optimal stocking levels for desired customer support level.
• Strategic Planning – Aligns purchasing strategies with business goals to optimize operations and profitability.
• Compliance & Risk Management – Ensures that purchases comply with legal and regulatory requirements while mitigating risks like supply chain disruptions.
• Process Optimization – Implements efficient procurement processes to streamline purchasing activities and reduce waste.
• People Management: Coaches, mentors, and develops staff and empowers employees, through delegation and feedback, to take responsibility for their goals, and fosters a spirit of teamwork and unity among department members.
• Interdepartmental Partnerships: Communicates with internal stakeholders and outside customers when needed for support or problem resolution. Collaborate with Buyer, Inventory Analyst, and Warehouse team to ensure standardization of work efforts in inventory management, standard costing, and strategic purchasing.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of all purchasing functions, purchasing ethics, familiarity of sources for gathering information, logistics, and of equipment and services utilized in the industrial gas sector.
• Prior commodity sourcing experience highly desirable.
• Outstanding interpersonal relationship building and employee coaching and development skills, including strong verbal and written communication and problem resolution skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Must be knowledgeable in data analysis and lead-measure indicators for business support and possess sound economic thinking skills with the ability to make informed and logical decisions.
• Demonstrates initiative and displays the ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritize work daily.
• Ability to comply with all company safety practices

Minimum Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or 4 years equivalent experience.
• Two (2) years of purchasing/supply management experience.
• Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.).

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to see, speak and hear.
• Frequent sitting and standing, walking, using hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; may stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus on objects.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and the work environment is an office/warehouse setting.
• Occasionally lift up to 75lbs

Comments:

These responsibilities are not intended to be all inclusive, and this position may also be asked to perform other duties as assigned by management. Maine Oxy-Acetylene Supply Company reserves the right to revise or change any of the above responsibilities.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person