What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Buyer position at Pace Industries?
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Summary
A leading North American die-cast and machined components provider, Pace Industries, offers manufacturers full-service solutions with a unique blend of experience, innovation, and expertise, providing confidence and quality throughout each customers’ full product development, launch and production life cycle.
Join the dynamic team at Pace Industries, as the plant Buyer. We are seeking an innovative and collaborative, and organized team player who monitors all purchasing records distribution, and actively purchases supplies. The successful candidate will be responsible for utilizing procurement tools and processes, collaborate cross functionally, adhere to processes and policies, and ensure materials are available and delivered on time. The role reports into the VP of Manufacturing Operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Purchase goods, materials, components, or services in line with specified cost, quality, and delivery targets.
- Support the purchasing function and other relevant departments, communicating any supply problems impacting business operations.
- Act as an interface between suppliers and relevant departments on purchasing processes and new projects.
- Monitor and advise on issues presenting risks or opportunities to the organization.
- Obtain and evaluate vendor quotes, ensuring alignment with requirements and budget; generate purchase orders
- Collaborate closely with others in the procurement function and review opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Build, maintain, and manage supplier relationships, ensuring good communication.
- Conduct research for new components and suppliers.
- Coordinate with finance on payment terms and invoicing issues
- Resolve price, quality, delivery, or invoice issues with suppliers.
- Address supplier shortages and past-due situations.
- Work with cost estimating to develop cost estimates for savings negotiations and to mitigate supplier uplift requests.
Please note that the duties and requirements described herein are intended to represent general contents of this job. This is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties and responsibilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, procurement or supply chain management or related field required.
- 3 years of related experience required.
- Basic understanding of procurement principles and best practices.
- Intellectually curious, critically thinker, and able to solve problems.
- Mechanically and/or electronically inclined helpful.
- Effective listening and communication skills (written and verbal).
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
- Skilled in Microsoft Office with high proficiencies in Excel.
- Ability to understand contracts and negotiations to pricing strategies.
- Ability to effectively present information to top management and public groups. Write, speak and comprehend English.
- Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, and ratio.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Pace Industries offers competitive salaries with full benefits, including health/dental/vision/life/disability, PTO, and 401k with employer match.
Pace Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Pace is a career destination for engaged, passionate and talented people who are driven to seek the innovation, growth and opportunity that only we offer.
