Job Description
Title: Buyer
Location: Taylor Mill, KY
Overview: Sterling has helped build careers for thousands of professionals like yourself. Our expert recruiters support you at every step in the process and as a Best of Staffing company, Sterling provides exciting work with exceptional employers across the U.S.
Hire Type: Direct Hire
Benefits: Benefits from day 1 with almost 100% coverage! In addition to 11 paid holidays, 2-3 weeks vacation, 401K, etc.
Target Salary: $65,000-70,000
Bonus/ Incentives/ Stock Options: up to 10% annual bonus
Job Summary: Responsible for procuring indirect materials, equipment, and services that support operations across multiple facilities. This role manages purchasing activities for non-production items, shipping and packaging materials, and aftermarket service tools while ensuring cost-effective sourcing and supplier performance.
Job Duties:
- Source and purchase indirect goods and services for multiple locations, including packaging materials and aftermarket service tools
- Negotiate pricing, contracts, and service agreements to achieve cost savings and support business objectives
- Generate and manage purchase orders for products, services, and planned packaging requirements
- Partner with internal teams during the implementation of Coupa and serve as a key system resource and certified administrator
- Evaluate and onboard new suppliers, ensuring all required approvals, authorizations, and safety requirements are met
- Coordinate with facilities teams regarding vendor access, deliveries, and hazardous material considerations
- Manage lease agreements for mobile equipment across several company locations
- Analyze purchasing activity and prepare monthly spend reports and related metrics
- Maintain strong supplier relationships while identifying opportunities for process improvements and cost reductions
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Supply Chain, Sales, or a related field
- 3–5 years of purchasing, procurement, or sourcing experience
- Strong negotiation skills with a demonstrated history of achieving cost savings
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and reporting tools
- Experience using SAP, LN, or similar ERP systems
- Knowledge of shop supplies, operational equipment, and indirect procurement practices
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities with excellent attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Taylor Mill, KY |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Accountingunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Business Supportunmatched
- Contract Negotiationunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
- Equipment Maintenance/Repairunmatched
- Expense Reportsunmatched
- Facilities Managementunmatched
- Hazardous Materials/Substancesunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Mobile Plant/Equipmentunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Order Picking/Packingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Pricingunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Procurement Managementunmatched
- Product Packagingunmatched
- Purchase Ordersunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- SAPunmatched
- Safety Trainingunmatched
- Salesunmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Sourcingunmatched
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