Purchasing Agent

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your purchasing and supplier management skills in a meaningful work environment that supports and protects explorers and heroes? Join our team! As a Purchasing Agent I, you'll be using your skills and expertise to purchase materials, supplies, and services on the most favorable terms for the organization. You'll be responsible for qualifying our suppliers, monitoring and ensuring our supplier quality and delivery, evaluating bids, negotiating prices and terms for purchased goods and services, tracking purchases, and maintaining a current database of our supplier information. This role will serve as an EMP subject matter expert, helping verify that systems/subsystems meet specific survivability requirements to ensure operation through a nuclear event. In addition, this individual will be responsible for maintaining communication between multiple subcontractors to support requirements development, proved technical oversight, and review/approve subcontractor documentation.

The Mission Solutions and Technologies (MST) business area provides affordable, turn-key command/control, communications, integrated ISR, force protection and security solutions worldwide. The MST team has a long legacy of supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, commercial and international customers with years of experience in platform operations, engineering and full lifecycle management across domains – air, land, sea, space and cyber.

Responsibilities:

You'll be responsible for preparing our bid packages, developing evaluation criteria, analyzing and evaluating our proposals, negotiating procurement provisions, selecting or recommending new suppliers and administering our procurements. Additionally, you'll administer standard procurement agreements, such as Firm Fixed Price (FFP), through the entire procurement lifecycle, and will participate and lead minor to moderate negotiations of terms, price, and schedule, and will monitor supplier performance.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field and typically 0-2 or more years of relevant experience
• Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
• Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of required education
• Comprehensive written, verbal and analytical skills
• Ability to manage multiple proposals at one time
• A "can do" attitude
• Ability to resolve conflicts in a professional manner
• Ability to critically think about situations and/or problems (ie. How does this decision impact future business?)
• Excellent time management skills (ie. ability to identify & understand priorities)
• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, OneNote, One Drive, Share Point, Etc.)
• Navigation/Understanding of FAR/DFARS and similar USG Acquisition provisions
• Pre-Solicitation/Solicitation Experience (Source Selection, Supplier setup/qualification)
• Pre-Award Experience (Price Analysis, Market Research, Procurement Summaries, Negotiations)
• Award/Post Award Experience (Total Procurement Ownership, Modifications, Invoicing, Closeout)
• Audit Experience (AS9100, CPSR, DCAA/DCMA Periodic Audits, Incurred Cost Audits, Security Audits, FAA Audits, etc.)
• Total Procurement Management (Source to Pay) experience at and below $35k with no supervision
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Well informed in Transient radiation effects on electronics: Total Dose, neutron displacement damage, neutron single event effects, prompt dose upset/latchup/burnout
• Educated in hardness assurance processes detailed in MIL-HDBK-814 through 817 and MIL-STD-1766
• Support overall system needs and act as a technical consultant in radiation effects for design teams, management, and customers
• Ability to decompose requirements to meet mission objectives
• Experience Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary design and development teams
• Knowledge of requirements management, functional requirements parsing, derivation, and allocation; systems design, systems integration, technical risk identification and management strategies, and Verification and Validation (V&V) principles

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Typically, 1-2 years or more of relevant experience
• Higher education may substitute for relevant experience
• Cost Point Deltek Experience
• SAP Concur Experience
• Ivalua Procurement Software
• Experience with requirements management and system modelling tools, such as DOORS, Rhapsody, NoMagic, MATLAB, Cameo, or IMS
• Experience or certification in MIL standards
• Provide radiation test support to include test planning, selecting appropriate exposure rates, identify parameter to monitor, develop test circuits, performing the testing, conducting data analysis, and generating a report.
• Experience in component level, circuit card level, and system level testing in all radiation environments.
• Familiarity with Thermal Flash and Electromagnetic Pusle effects / documentation, including MIL-STD-3023, MIL-STD-2169, and MIL-STD-810.
• Experience in electrical design: Circuit design/simulation evaluations, circumvention and recovery methods, photocurrent transient protection mitigations
• Conduct reliability analysis such as SEE rate calculations, FIT rate contributions, and tolerance limits for normal/lognormal distributions.
• Knowledgeable in environmental modeling and radiation transport analysis

Estimated Starting Salary Range: $59,000.00 - $77,541.82. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors, such as candidates' key skills, relevant work experience, and education/training/certifications. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.

SNC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, 3 weeks paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

To conform to U.S. Government international trade regulations, applicant must be a U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or U.S. Department of Commerce.

SNC is a global leader in aerospace and national security committed to moving the American Dream forward. We’re known and respected for our mission and execution focus, agility, and disruptive and rapid innovation. We provide leading edge technologies and transformative solutions that support our nation’s most critical security needs. If you are mission-focused, thrive in collaborative environments, and want to make our country stronger with state-of-the-art technologies that safeguard freedom, join our team!

SNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an environment free of discrimination. Employment decisions are made based on merit without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.