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Position Title: Sr. Buyer/Planner
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity for Sr. Buyer/ Planner with our client located in Kirkland, WA.
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Job Details:
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
Sr. Buyer/Planner
12950 Willows Road NE Kirkland, WA 98034 US
Posted: 05/03/2024
2024-05-03
2024-06-16
Employment Type:
Contract
Department: Core Technologies - Contract
Job Number: 28793
Industry: AERO - Aerospace
Job Description
Position Title: Sr. Buyer/Planner
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity for Sr. Buyer/ Planner with our client located in Kirkland, WA.
Job Description:
- As the Sr. Buyer/Planner, you will utilize your industry experience, extensive contract manufacturer, circuit card assemblies, electronic components and commodity knowledge and strategies (utilizing a deep understanding of competition, market, sources, industry contacts, industry best practices and company processes and products) in performing the job duties as follows:
Job Responsibilities:
- Reviews and interprets MRP and other sales order output to ensure appropriate inventory requirements are planned and changes are implemented.
- Prepares and gathers quotations, examines bids, and places Purchase Orders within authorized spend and guidelines. Ensures flow down of requirements.
- Processes Purchase Orders and Purchase Requisitions.
- Resolves invoicing, documentation, scheduling, and quality discrepancies.
- Monitors and tracks vendor performance and internally escalates on non-performance concerns.
- Monitors supplier performance to ensure compliance to agreements, including the sharing of forecasts.
- Works within the existing organizational structure and navigate supplier hierarchy and systems to ensure access to the right points of contact for the situation.
- Effectively escalate performance concerns within the supplier organization and the client as required.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from four-year college. Will consider combination of certification (APICS and/or CPSM) and 5+ of experience in lieu of degree.
- Ideally this person would have experience with contract manufacturers of circuit card assemblies and electronic components.
- Demonstrates competency (typically 5+ years of direct experience in the duties and responsibilities of the position.)
- Intermediate abilities in the Microsoft Office Suite
- Data base user interface and query software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Project management software
- Strong knowledge of regulated industry, sourcing for related commodity and technology
- Ability to read and comprehend drawings and internal documentation package.
- Familiarity with Windows 10 or 11, MS Office 365 (Excel, Word, PP, main apps used), and basic internet search skills using MS Edge is required.
- Intuitive ERP system knowledge is helpful, but general ERP/MRP experience is fine.
- Exposure to Empower or other PLM systems and SharePoint experience are helpful but not required.
Job Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Location: Kirkland, WA-Onsite
- Pay Range: $38.00 ~ $48.00 DOE.
- An offer of employment is contingent on successfully passing a drug test and background check, and applicants who do not successfully pass both the drug test and background check will not be considered for employment.
- ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
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