Start Date: 24-07-2025
Date Added: 24-07-2025
Status: Accepting Candidates
Industry: Aerospace
Categories: AE31 – Procurement / Buyer

Description:Buyer I 

Location: Peachtree, GA    
Term: Contract assignment – 9 months (extendable) 
Shift: Monday to Friday – 8 am to 4:30 pm   
Pay Rate: $25 – $28 per hour (based on experience)  

Job Summary: 
Coordinates activities involved with procuring, tracking, and expediting goods and services such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts and supplies at a competitive price, delivery, and quality via the issuance of a purchase order.

Responsibilities: 
•    Schedules and tracks the material deliveries based upon production schedule and other program requirements
•    Confers with suppliers to obtain product or service information such as price, availability and delivery schedule
•    Prepares purchase orders and bid requests
•    Basic negotiation and administration of agreements with suppliers and other representatives within scope of authority
•    Estimates values according to knowledge of market price
•    Analyzes price proposals, financial reports and other data and information to determine reasonable prices
•    Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance and inventories
•    Support achievement of department metrics
•    Enters purchase orders into MRP system and issues to supplier via internet, fax or e-mail
•    Maintains purchase order status and follows up on unconfirmed and past due orders plus requirements due in coming weeks
•    Arbitrates claims and resolves complaints generated during performance of purchase order or contract, escalating issues to the Purchasing Manager as appropriate
•    Interacts with Engineering, Planning and Production to ensure any changes in production requirements are flowed down to suppliers
•    Maintains professionalism in developing collaborative relationships with internal customers, partners and suppliers
•    Liaise with planners to control scheduling of parts to ensure stock levels meet demands while achieving site level/corporate financial targets
•    Evaluates defective or unacceptable goods or services with inspection or quality control, users, vendors and others to determine source of trouble and take corrective action
•    Updates suppliers with engineering changes and drawings
•    Actively manages supplier performance
•    Develops commodity/market knowledge and maintains roster of available supply sources
•    Approves invoices for payment within scope of authority
•    Expedites delivery of goods to users

Qualifications:
•    Experience: 1-3 years of experience in purchasing is required
•    Education: College degree is preferred (Preferably a degree in Supply Chain management or related field) or comparable experience
•    Acquires basic skills to perform routine tasks
•    Work is prescribed and completed with little autonomy
•    Works with either close supervision or under clearly defined procedures

To apply please email your resume to Lisa at: lisa@cantech.agency

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