Job Description
Job Details:
Job Title: Buyer II
Location: Lafayette, CO
Duration: 6 Months
Pay Range: $35.00 - $39.98/hr. On W2
Description/Comment: What are the main functions of this role?
The Buyer will have existing procurement experience in the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry in a manufacturing or Research & Development (R&D) environment. The Buyer will have working knowledge of FAR, DFAR and/or NASA procurement regulations, price analysis, and target pricing techniques, as well as prior experience procuring Custom Fab-to-Print commodities.
Required Skill Sets:
Job Title: Buyer II
Location: Lafayette, CO
Duration: 6 Months
Pay Range: $35.00 - $39.98/hr. On W2
Description/Comment: What are the main functions of this role?
The Buyer will have existing procurement experience in the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry in a manufacturing or Research & Development (R&D) environment. The Buyer will have working knowledge of FAR, DFAR and/or NASA procurement regulations, price analysis, and target pricing techniques, as well as prior experience procuring Custom Fab-to-Print commodities.
Required Skill Sets:
- 3-5 Years ERP Experience - SAP Preferred.
- Must be able to understand/read engineering drawings and BOM structure
- Experience working with mechanical/fabricated part drawings and technical spec understanding
- Experience working in partnership with internal stakeholders to ensure the organization’s needs are met while managing purchasing process procedures
- Work cross functionally with other departments such as Engineering, Quality, Material Program Manager, Planning, and Accounting to meet business needs
- Experience in procurement and/or vendor contract management is preferred
- Working knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) compliance
- Buy parts according to specifications ensuring compliance with company quality standards. Work with Suppliers to resolve quality issues
- Set and maintain accurate item lead times in the system and hold suppliers accountable to their commitments and to meet performance expectations
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities
- Exhibits a high level to attention to detail
- Excellent scheduling and time management skills
- Have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, self-motivated, and be able to drive a process from start to finish
- Ability to compile information to make strategic decisions
- Ability to thrive under pressure
- Working knowledge of vendor setup, PTO packages, T&C negotiations, NDA processing, Cost Savings negotiations.
- *Mechanical Buying experience
- *Software buying experience
- 3-7 years
- Bachelor’s degree
- They will utilize the 2026 Purchasing Team Goals, as well as the 1: 1 Control Tower metrics based on their procurements, deliveries, trainings, etc.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lafayette, CO |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $35 |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills
- Accountingunmatched
- Aerospace and Defenseunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Corporate Complianceunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR)unmatched
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement (DFARS)unmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Engineering Bill of Materials (eBOM)unmatched
- Engineering Drawingunmatched
- Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)unmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Materials Managementunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Pricingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Managementunmatched
- Procurement Managementunmatched
- Program Planningunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- SAP ECC (fka SAP R/3 and SAP ERP)unmatched
- Technical Drawingunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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