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Purchasing Coordinator
712 E Southmore Ave. Pasadena, TX 77502 US
Posted: 04/04/2025
2025-04-04
2025-05-30
Employment Type:
Contract To Hire
Job Number: 770
Pay Rate: 25.00
Job Description
Position Summary: Purchasing Coordinator - Source new suppliers and work with outside vendors to source materials including, but not limited to sheet metal, gases, tooling and inserts. Negotiate supply agreements based on an evaluation of total cost (purchase price, tooling, lead times, freight, etc.), product quality, process controls, capacity, and ability to provide continuous improvements.
Role Qualifications:
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, employee is required to stand; walk; sit for prolonged periods; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and /or move up to 20lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Employees must talk by expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to clients or to the public and maintain focus and concentration throughout the workday.
Hours: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (This is not a remote position – It is in office)
Pay Rate Range: $25.00 hr. to $35.00 hr. (Depending on level of experience)
Role Qualifications:
- Must possess strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills as well as well-honed negotiation skills
- Must be extremely well organized and detail oriented along with exposure to office and manufacturing environments
- Must have 5 years of purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment
- Coordinate with engineering, operations, and quality to develop and review product specifications, statement of work performance terms and/or acceptance criteria and subsequent changes.
- Locate, evaluate, select, and maintain potential sources of supply utilizing domestic and international supply base.
- Evaluate competitive offerings on the basis of commodity and market knowledge.
- Negotiate competitive and advantageous Supply Agreements/Contracts.
- Resolve contractual disagreements and payment problems with suppliers.
- Establish procurement plans and makes overall procurement decisions for assigned commodities.
- Generate reports on purchasing activities for management.
- Develop strategies and tactics for conducting negotiations.
- Review and publish market information and trends pertaining to assigned commodities.
- Work with supplier to reduce overall lead-time including but not limited Vendor Managed Inventory or consignment relationships.
- Develop and/or implement programs/processes of standardization, process improvement. Cost reduction, cost avoidance, and cost containment.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field preferred
- 5+ years purchasing experience required in a manufacturing environment.
- Certificate in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and/or Purchasing Management (CPM) preferred.
- Familiar with MS Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to develop effective working relationships.
- Immediately stop practices that are unsafe or outside of approved procedural limits.
- Escalate to the supervisor and/or Quality Department any item, component or product that is found unacceptable or out of specification for proper disposition.
- Halt shipments of products known to be defective or known to have been produced without using the proper procedures.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of the job, employee is required to stand; walk; sit for prolonged periods; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and /or move up to 20lbs. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Employees must talk by expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to clients or to the public and maintain focus and concentration throughout the workday.
- Work environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
Hours: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (This is not a remote position – It is in office)
Pay Rate Range: $25.00 hr. to $35.00 hr. (Depending on level of experience)
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