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Purchasing Supervisor

UTEC - Universal Tool Equipment + Controls
Sterling, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 2/13/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

Summary

The Purchasing Supervisor supervises the daily activities of the purchasing function. Maintain relationships with vendors or suppliers and negotiates contracts for more complex purchase orders. Evaluates and analyzes purchasing trends and price trends to identify forecast demand and minimize purchasing costs.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

  • Evaluates bids, ensuring compliance with departmental and company policies and procedures.
  • Distributes purchasing information to involved parties including vendors, sales representatives, and employees.
  • Reviews and evaluates purchase request forms for accuracy and completeness.
  • Gathers, records, and completes purchase data.
  • Purchase commodities as assigned by the Purchasing Manager, utilizing negotiating skills to obtain the most
  • competitive price while maintaining specified quality standards and delivery requirements.
  • Creates and maintains working relationships with our vendors.
  • Reads blueprints.
  • Tracks and records cost savings in the system for both hard and soft savings.
  • Filing all documentation and quotes for audit purposes along with confirmation of the Purchase Order.
  • Follows-up reviewing all open orders and tracks Quality, Delivery of suppliers.
  • Works with the Shipping and Receiving department to arrange transportation of purchases.
  • Creates and maintains RMA’s, should there be any issues.
  • Works with Accounting and Shipping to return RMA’s.
  • Inspects exchanged or refunded merchandise and works with inventory control to reduce the inventory levels.
  • Adheres to the Quality Systems and participates in continuous improvement.
  • Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Directly supervise all employees in the Purchasing Department. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing and training. employees and sub-contractors; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Key Responsibilities

  • Oversee procurement buyers.
  • Provide consulting, training, and guidance to procurement buyers.
  • Research, evaluate, and buy products.
  • Review purchase order requests.
  • Negotiate contracts with vendors and suppliers.
  • Build relationships with business partners.
  • Ensure quality of goods and services purchased.
  • Maintain and review purchase and delivery records.
  • Confidentiality

    This position performs a variety of highly specialized and confidential financial and administrative duties in support of an organizational unit having multiple departments or a single function of similar scope of service.

    Qualifications

    To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The

    requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required. Reasonable

    accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    Education and / or Experience

    Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school; or 10-years related experience

    and / or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

    Computer Skills

    Proficient in Microsoft applications including Outlook, Word, “MS Excel”, PowerPoint.

    Language Skills

  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure
  • manuals.
  • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
  • Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
  • Mathematical Skills

  • Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane
  • and solid geometry and trigonometry.
  • Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
  • Ability to understand and apply advanced mathematics.
  • Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and
  • validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
  • Reasoning Ability

  • 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.
  • Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

    MIOSHA training.

    Physical Demands

    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 use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

    Work Environment

    The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while

    performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with

    disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    Travel Requirements

    No travel requirements.

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