Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an international technology group with three core businesses: aerospace, defense, and security. It develops, produces, and markets engines and equipment for air and space, defense electronics, and security solutions.
Position: Buyer I
Duration: 6 Months
Location: College Park, GA, 30337
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Job Type: Onsite
Shift Timings: 7:00 A.M - 3:30 P.M (M-F)
Job Summary:
- Coordinates activities involved with procuring, tracking, and expediting goods and services such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts and supplies at a competitive price, delivery, and quality via the issuance of a purchase order.
Duties:
- Schedules and tracks the material deliveries based upon production schedule and other program requirements.
- Confers with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability and delivery schedule.
- Prepares purchase orders and bid requests.
- Basic negotiation and administration of agreements with suppliers and other representatives within scope of authority.
- Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
- Analyzes price proposals, financial reports and other data and information to determine reasonable prices.
- Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance and inventories.
- Support achievement of department metrics.
- Enters purchase orders into MRP system and issues to supplier via internet, fax or e-mail. Maintains purchase order status and follows up on unconfirmed and past due orders plus requirements due in coming weeks.
- Arbitrates claims and resolves complaints generated during performance of purchase order or contract, escalating issues to the Purchasing Manager as appropriate.
- Interacts with Engineering, Planning and Production to ensure any changes in production requirements are flowed down to suppliers.
- Maintains professionalism in developing collaborative relationships with internal customers, partners and suppliers.
- Liaise with planners to control scheduling of parts to ensure stock levels meet demands while achieving site level/corporate financial targets.
- Evaluates defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control, users, vendors and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action.
- Updates suppliers with engineering changes and drawings.
- Actively manages supplier performance.
- Develops commodity/market knowledge and maintains roster of available supply sources.
- Approves invoices for payment within scope of authority.
- Expedites delivery of goods to users.
Experience:
- 1-3 years of experience in purchasing is required.
- Entry level job with little or no prior relevant work experience
- Acquires basic skills to perform routine tasks
- Work is prescribed and completed with little autonomy
- Works with either close supervision or under clearly defined procedures
Education:
- College degree is preferred (Preferably a degree in Supply Chain management or related field) or comparable experience.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | College Park, GA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $27–$30 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Aerospace and Defenseunmatched
- Bid Analysisunmatched
- Billingunmatched
- Corporate Financeunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Electronicsunmatched
- Financial Reportingunmatched
- Internet Faxunmatched
- Materials Trackingunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Order Processingunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Procedure Developmentunmatched
- Procurement Managementunmatched
- Production Scheduleunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Resolve Customer Issuesunmatched
- Sales Managementunmatched
- Supply Chain Managementunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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