Sobre esta vaga de Senior Buyer na Uft
At Tesco Controls (a UFT company), our culture is grounded in the idea that the how we achieve results is just as important as the results themselves. Our winning behaviors guide the way we work, collaborate, and grow—both as individual employees and as a team. Our core winning behaviors are to Build Relationships, have a Relentless Drive for Results, to Communicate with Integrity and Focus, and to Be a Mentor, Teacher, Learner. These behaviors are more than words—they are the foundation of our success and continued growth.
Here, you’ll join a stable, growing company where your work directly supports cleaner water, stronger communities, and critical infrastructure across the country. If you want meaningful work, real growth opportunities, and a team that takes pride in doing the right thing—you’ll find it here. Apply today and help power the systems that keep our world running.
Under limited supervision research, purchase, track products and equipment in accordance with company standards and procedures to ensure availability and standardization. Maintain current job files, catalogs, literature and pricing. Monitor, purchase, and expedite all orders while following company p-card standards and procedures. Maintain supplier relations by negotiating terms, pricing, and delivery based on specific budgets and schedule requirements. Provide assistance to other employees by mentoring, training and monitoring job performance through the use of company policies and procedures.
This role will be on-site Monday through Friday with a typical work schedule of 7am - 4pm.
What you'll do:
- Responsible for processing and standardizing procurement transactions
- Requests quotes, and negotiates pricing, payment terms, and delivery terms for non-agreement suppliers
- Negotiates and reviews all quotes for projects assigned
- Ability to multi-task and handle priorities as business necessity permits. Must be able to maintain professionalism during frequent interruptions
- Solicit cost reduction ideas from suppliers and implement these cost savings ideas
- Anticipates procurement related concerns, and proactively addresses issues
- Verify required information: cost accounting, part numbers, description, and pricing
- Expedite orders, and serve as liaison between suppliers and end users
- Ensures timely delivery of materials and equipment to support project execution and customer satisfaction
- Research, analyze, and correct all purchase order related discrepancies
- Report cost savings, and other related metrics to management
- Resolves supply chain logistical and accounting problems with suppliers and company’s internal customers
- Translates demand requirements into procurement requests and orders to ensure the timely availability of materials
- Analyzes material availability and arranges purchasing and/or or in-house production of parts to ensure timely availability of materials
- Develops, maintains and distributes procurement related metrics reports to management
- Attend department meetings to reciprocate supplier related issues
- Work closely with the production floor to ensure timely scheduling of current jobs
- Perform all other duties as assigned
What you bring:
- 5+ years experience as a buyer/planner or purchasing agent
- Bachelors degree in a related field preferred
- Experience with purchasing electrical components preferred
- High level of organizational skills with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure
- Negotiation/facilitation skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills with customers and suppliers at all levels
- Ability to strategically problem solve and critical thinking skills in order to diagnosis problems and implement acceptable solutions
- Ability to navigate and work in multiple systems at one time
- Extensive knowledge of planning for engineering processes and procedures preferred
- Extensive knowledge of purchase order and bill of material standards
- Understanding of computer operations, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and APICS
- Complete knowledge of Inventory Quality Control
Tesco Controls is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. TESCO provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. (Compliant with the new VEVRAA and Section 503 rules)
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