What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer 2 position at Northwest Aerospace Technologies?
Job Description
Northwest Aerospace Technologies (“NAT”), a Safran Company, is the only EASA DOA Certified aircraft interior reconfiguration group in the United States. Focusing on commercial and military aircrafts, NAT provides first class services in design, engineering, quality, certification, and manufacturing for a variety of Blue Chip customers.
The Safran growth strategy centers on three areas : growing company market share, customer satisfaction and achieving operational excellence. The buyer role is responsible for acquiring goods and services at a competitive price, ensuring that goods are of top quality, and facilitating delivery of goods via the issuance and management of a purchase order. Analyzes demand and release purchase orders in accordance. Partners with program management and engineering to mitigate long lead components and resolve part shortages and other urgent demand. Buyers collaborate with suppliers to understand their capacity, capability and business strategy.
Role Assignment
- Acts as authorized agent of the company, making financial commitments and managing key supplier relationships to ensure supply chain performance
- Manages medium complexity suppliers whom produce major end-items, requiring advanced knowledge of commodity, supply base, and program
- Responsible for challenging supply chain problem resolution
- Mentor Buyer 1 and Supply Chain Expeditors
- Possesses solid understanding of internal processes and program risk and needs as it pertains to their assigned commodities
Purchasing Execution
Supplier Management
Complementary Description
Safran Cabin headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, with a global presence of over 11,000 employees at 36 sites. Site locations are in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Tunisia and Thailand. Safran Cabin serves over 400 airlines and leasing companies globally and delivers to all airframe OEM manufacturers with a heritage spanning over 80 years in the industry.
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Job Requirements
At Safran Cabin, diversity & inclusion is a source of richness that adds quality of life, performance, and innovation. We welcome diverse contributions and provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex / gender, sexual orientation, gender identity / gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability / medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.
We seek service-oriented team players with strong interpersonal skills and a positive attitude, adaptable to our innovative and evolving environment.
Across all team members, we are looking for the following attributes :
Education : Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Experience : Minimum 5 years of supply chain / purchasing / sourcing experience
Computer Skills :
Other Skills :
Additional Preferred Skills :
