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. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. Global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories, graphics processors, motherboard chip sets, and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.
Job Title: Sr. Logistics Technician
Location: Austin, TX 78735
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
THE ROLE:
- This role is critical to ensuring supply continuity, prototype readiness, budget alignment, and fast execution across hardware programs.
- The team operates in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment and is currently composed of two experienced buyers who manage workload by commodity ownership.
- Their primary responsibility is to assess supply versus demand weekly and issue purchase orders to address imbalances.
- They procure a wide range of components, including electronic parts such as DIMMs, SSDs, and development cards, as well as custom sockets, cables, fans, heatsinks, and sheet metal.
- Buyers work closely with Engineering, Program Management, Finance, and Corporate Procurement to validate demand, execute procurement, and provide timely status updates.
THE PERSON:
- The ideal candidate is a proactive buyer who can operate with urgency, accuracy, and strong ownership in an environment with shifting demand and supply conditions.
- This person should communicate clearly, manage multiple priorities, follow through across functions, and work independently with strong attention to detail.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Analyze supply and demand weekly to identify gaps, risks, and purchasing actions.
- Drive purchase requisitions and purchase order execution for electronic hardware, custom sheet metal, and cable assemblies.
- Provide clear order status, delivery visibility, and issue escalation updates to management.
- Maintain purchase order dates and procurement timing to support quarterly budget planning and execution accuracy.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 5+ years of procurement, buying, planning, logistics, or related supply chain experience.
- Procurement experience supporting electronic components or hardware-related materials.
- Experienced working at a Contract Manufacturer for electronics (Preferred).
- Proficiency with MRP systems and strong working knowledge of purchase order execution.
- Strong Excel skills for tracking, analysis, and status reporting.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:
- Bachelor's degree preferred
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | AUSTIN, TX |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $35 |
| 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
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