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Senior Buyer

Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company
Hollister, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/28/2025
SENIOR BUYER

Active supply base management to optimize supplier performance and accommodate operational excellence.

Champion problem-solving activities, foster continuous improvement environment and influence stakeholders.

PO Process

  • Executes, purchase order, blanket purchase orders and other measures to secure long term
  • supply & fix pricing.
  • Identified opportunities for supplier Kan Ban, safety stock or VMI & initiate.
  • Ensures that purchase order records are always accurate, and resolves any discrepancies about.
  • price, lead time, transportation & T/C’s expeditiously.
  • Manages the execution of complex processing & operations.
  • Responds urgently to shortages or push outs. Able to resolve and manage effectively to prevent.
  • disruption to operations & customer expectations.
  • Negotiations.
  • Lead negotiation on costs, inventory & standard T/C's.
  • Price justification and cost analysis.
  • Ability to influence multiple suppliers.

Daily Work

  • Leads supplier on-time delivery corrective actions.
  • Source for escalation for daily issues.
  • Perform root cause analysis to facilitate daily management & problem solving.
  • Lead audit initiatives on standard work.
  • Train other buyers.
  • Ability to lead/mentor & develop standard work.
  • Conducts all compliance activity to support corporate & business requirements.
  • Pre-emptively manage material obsolescence & lifecycle events.
  • Responsible for resolving supplier feedback.
  • Fully understand origin of system messages and ability to troubleshoot.
  • Facilitate change management within department and externally.
  • Continuous Improvement.
  • Ability to lead with Fortive Business Systems (FBS) tools.
  • Lead/Facilitate various continuous improvement events.

Supply Base Management

  • Understands and may influence suppliers supply chain, takes action to mitigate risk.
  • Ability to influence supplier and supply chain performance.
  • Ability to create solutions to shortages, cost or pushouts through collaboration, alternatives, and
  • innovation.
  • Knowledge of scorecard rating & SCAR's.
  • Identifies new sources & performs basic capability assessment.
  • Responsible for source transition activity, part qualification.

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company (PacSci EMC), a Fortive Corporation (NYSE: FTV) operating company, makes critical missions possible. From concept to demonstration to delivery, we provide leading-edge energetic materials, devices and subsystems for use in military and commercial applications. With engineering and manufacturing capability in Arizona and California, our associates work together to solve the toughest technical challenges with a dedication to Safety First, Quality Every TimeTM. We enable success for innumerable missions on a daily basis, impacting the lives of military personnel, law enforcement officers, commercial airline pilots, astronauts, and oil field operators. For nearly a century, PacSci EMC’s experience and expertise has been relied upon in the times When Milliseconds MatterTM. For more information, go to www.psemc.com.PacSci EMC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, sex, religion, age, national origin, color, disability, or veteran status. Nonetheless, pursuant to our subcontractor status on highly sensitive national security matters, Mechanical Assemblers and all other floor personnel who frequently shift cell assignments, as well as any personnel directly working with the following contract are subject to the following contractual provision: THAAD PRIME Flowdowns (H-Clauses) H-42 FOREIGN PERSONS, paragraph D., “All employees of all entities that make up the Contractor’s team, whether subcontractors, consultants, or anyone who works with or on behalf of the Contractor will be citizens of the U.S.” Accordingly, only U.S. citizens will be qualified to fill these roles. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment. We all have a role in building a community where everyone belongs. Where you can speak your mind, be yourself, and feel supported. It’s how we achieve more together — for each other, for our customers, and for the world. https://www.fortive.com/inclusion-diversity “We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com. “

The salary range for this position (in local currency) is 85,320 - 158,520

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