Purchasing Specialist

Thank you for your interest in joining our team!

Cooper Consolidated is a balanced, asset-based provider of midstream stevedoring, barge, marine, and logistics services. With operations based along the lower Mississippi River between Southwest Pass and Baton Rouge, we provide cargo handling and movements throughout the U.S. inland waterway system. Our expert team ensures your important cargo is safely transported from origin to destination while making the experience as easy and worry-free as possible.

At Cooper Consolidated, our goal is to be the leader in the cargo handling industry. The key to this rests squarely with our people, and the backbone of how our people operate is our unique culture. The CC Way - 28 principles of our high-performing culture - describes the values, behaviors, and practices that are the foundation of this culture. It's what makes us a leader in our industry.

This job is primarily responsible for inventory control management (purchasing, tracking, and storage) of both low value consumable supplies and high value mechanical and electrical parts and components. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, daily communication with customers, managers, and contractors to help efficiently coordinate activities and maintain proper inventory supply levels.

In this job, you will:

• Accountable for ensuring appropriate parts, components, and supplies as needed for location(s) to provide services and products to meet customer needs and standards.
• Work with management on approved vendor list, and provide reports on scheduled vendor evaluations (e.g. evaluations for pricing schedules, timeliness and consistency).
• Maintain a close working relationship with approved vendors to ensure they can meet our purchasing needs.
• Make purchases from approved vendor(s), inspect product(s) upon arrival, and ensure proper delivery and/or storage for immediate and/or future use.
• Order and issue safety wear as needed.
• Work with accounting to ensure timely and accurate payments to vendors.
• Perform or supervise physical inventory counts, including ensuring accurate documentation of inventory storage/location.
• Prepare and distribute various inventory reports (e.g. inventory on hand and inventory usage).
• Identify requirements for equipment parts; review recommended replacement schedules and secure the necessary parts and ordering schedules for equipment and supplies.
• May work with contractors assisting in projects to ensure proper equipment, parts, and supplies are on hand.
• Keep inventory areas clean.
• Other duties as assigned.

Here's what you will need to be considered:

Education

Required - High school diploma

Preferred - Bachelor's degree and/or relevant experience

Experience

Preferred - One year purchasing and/or inventory experience in a plant or manufacturing environment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of the respective equipment, and various parts.
• Knowledge of and ability to operate heavy equipment, such as forklift; where applicable.
• Effective computer skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of people within and outside the organization.
• Strong decision making, negotiation, and conflict management skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong time management and prioritization skills, with ability to remain flexible to changing priorities.
• Strong technical skills about relevant local standards.
• Ability to work during non-standard business hours that may include evening, nighttime, weekends, holidays, and/or extended hours.

Here's additional information you need to know:

Physical Demands & Requirements

Heavy work. Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

The employee is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment.

Environmental Conditions

The work environment described here are meant to be representative of those an employee would normally encounter while performing the essential functions of this job.

The physical environment requires the employee to work both inside where there are limited extremes to heat and/or cold; moderate noise; a normal office environment outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions. Frequently required to use personal protective equipment.

Travel, up to 30% travel for trainings, meetings, pick-ups and/or deliveries.

Are you ready to make a meaningful career move & an impact at Cooper Consolidated, LLC? Apply today!

Known in our industry for stability and high ethics, Cooper Consolidated, LLC offers a stellar benefits package including: an outstanding 401(k) retirement plan with company contributions, medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life, & disability benefits, flexible spending accounts, paid leave (holidays, vacation, sick), wellness programs, recognition programs, community involvement opportunities, and much more!

Cooper Consolidated, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EEO is the Law links in English or Spanish. We are unable to legally hire anyone who is not eligible to work in the United States nor are we able to sponsor visas.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this position. It should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

All Third Party Agencies, Headhunters, and Recruiters

Cooper Consolidated, LLC and its Subsidiaries only forms contracts with recruiters with whom we have an established relationship and with whom we have in place a signed contract. All contact from third parties must go through our Human Resources Department. Any contact made outside of our Human Resources Department by a third party will cancel any future business relationships between the third party and Cooper Consolidated, LLC and its Subsidiaries.