Manages the company’s procurement activities, supplier relationships, purchasing processes, and material acquisition strategies to ensure timely, cost-effective, and compliant support of production, engineering, repair, and customer requirements.
Job Requirements:
Manages supplier relationships for materials, equipment, parts, outside services, and supplies, including supplier selection, price and delivery negotiations, documentation requirements, and terms of sale.
Coordinates directly with Engineering, Quality, Production, Sales, Accounting, and suppliers to support timely and compliant procurement of materials, equipment, parts, and services.
Oversees the requisition and purchase order process, including review of requirements, supplier quotations, negotiations, order placement, acknowledgments, and follow-up on commitments.
Keeps requisitioners and internal stakeholders informed of delivery status, supplier constraints, schedule risks, and changes that may affect production or customer commitments.
Ensures that critical purchases are expedited as required to maintain production schedules, repair commitments, engineering needs, and customer delivery requirements.
Develops and implements procurement processes, procedures, and controls to standardize purchasing activities, improve supplier accountability, support inventory accuracy, and maintain proper purchasing records.
Monitors supplier performance, including on-time delivery, quality performance, responsiveness, pricing, lead times, corrective action follow-up when required and supplier’s scorecards.
Analyzes purchasing activity, supplier trends, cost drivers, long-lead items, shortages, and slow-moving or obsolete inventory to support operational planning and cost-control initiatives.
Supports receiving, inspection, shipping, inventory control, and accounting activities by resolving purchase order discrepancies, documentation issues, invoice holds, and supplier-related concerns.
Summary of Education and Experience:
BBA or equivalent from an accredited college or university preferred. Coursework or professional development in supply chain management, procurement, business administration, operations, or a related discipline is desirable.
Minimum of 5 years of procurement, purchasing, or supply chain experience in an electronics manufacturing environment, including at least 3 years supervising personnel or leading procurement-related functions. Experience should include supplier contracts and management, purchase order administration, negotiation, expediting, inventory support, and coordination with production, engineering, quality, and finance.
Must possess strong decision-making, negotiation, problem-solving, communication, and interpersonal skills. Ability to lead procurement activities in a dynamic manufacturing environment, evaluate supplier performance, manage priorities, support cost and lead-time improvement initiatives. Proficiency in interpreting drawings, specifications, blueprints, data sheets, and purchasing requirements. Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems and purchasing documentation is preferred.
We offer an excellent benefits package, including life insurance, comprehensive medical and dental plan, profit sharing and retirement plan and 401(k) plan.
Salary will be commensurate with experience, education and ability.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Fort Worth, TX
Skills
Accountingunmatched
Acquisition Strategyunmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
Blueprintsunmatched
Business Administrationunmatched
Business Operationsunmatched
Contract Managementunmatched
Corrective Actionunmatched
Cost Controlunmatched
Datasheetsunmatched
Documentationunmatched
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)unmatched
Electronics Manufacturingunmatched
Financeunmatched
Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
Inventory Managementunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Manufacturing Analysisunmatched
Negotiation Skillsunmatched
Operational Supportunmatched
Operations Planningunmatched
People Managementunmatched
Performance Analysisunmatched
Pricingunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Procurement Managementunmatched
Production Scheduleunmatched
Production Supportunmatched
Purchase Ordersunmatched
Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
Receiving Inspectionunmatched
Record Keepingunmatched
Salesunmatched
Scorecardingunmatched
Shipping/Receivingunmatched
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)unmatched
Supply Chainunmatched
Supply Chain Managementunmatched
Time Managementunmatched
Trend Analysisunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Planningunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
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