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Purchasing Assistant (Pacific)

Craigslist

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Job typeFull-time
Workplace typeOnsite
Experience levelNo experience limit
Education levelNo degree limit

Description

Summary: Seeking an eager, organized, and personable team player with a clerical background to support and enhance a purchasing department through vendor management and market research. Highlights: 1. Opportunity to work closely with the purchasing manager 2. Focus on enhancing profitability and reducing operating costs 3. Engage in vendor research, selection, and relationship management We are looking for a highly eager individual to join the team! Qualifications: • Excellent attention to detail, well organized • Enthusiastic and personable • Punctual and reliable • Team player and able to work independently. • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. • Clerical background in a manufacturing facility a plus • Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively, self-motivated. • Familiar with MS Office • Be eager for position advancement. Duties: • Working with the purchasing manager to run the purchasing department. • Performing vendor research and selection to enhance profitability, reducing operating costs and boosting efficiency. • Preparing bid packages and processing RFQs for all estimates to support the Estimating Team. • Maintaining cordial working relationships with vendors and supervising vendor activities • Signing and reviewing purchasing agreements with vendors, monitoring their performance with Vendor Surveys and NCRS. • Using weekly market data to keep Unit Price file up to date. • Maintains procurement records, such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, Mill test reports, and receiving documents. • Learn and maintain material knowledge for procurement. • Maintain Shop Orders and ordering for quick paced projects. • Working with Shop staff to compare deliveries with purchase orders to identify discrepancies, maintain material due dates and reporting. • Conduct ongoing market research to identify beneficial potential vendors and new product avenues. • Maintains all AISC standards and processes up to date as they relate to the purchasing process. • Data Entry

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