About this role
Job Title: Driveline Buyer
Overview:
As the buyer, you will work with vendors to negotiate pricing and lead times for our manufacturing operations. Purchasing materials, equipment, and supplies to meet demands while maintaining lean practices. Responsible for implementing purchase orders, presenting forecast changes, and working to resolve delivery challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Research, evaluate, and choose suppliers based on price, quality, and reliability to present to the Purchasing Manager
- Investigate, identify, and research potential cost savings of commodities by developing supplier relationships
- Review purchase requisitions and scans daily and approve purchase orders based on negotiated price, terms, and quality
- Communicate effectively with all departments, coordinating acceptable quality and delivery of purchased material
- Attend daily production meeting and track build schedule for changes
- Monitor open purchase orders
- Discuss defective or unacceptable goods with supplier and implement corrective action
- Send out monthly forecast to vendors
- Create vendor performance reports and issues to manager and vendors
- Source new parts and update suppliers of print and/or design changes
- Resolve other purchasing related problems as they occur
- Vendor visits, some overnight travel will be required less than 10%
- Reports to Purchasing Manager
To be seriously considered for this role, please have the following:
- Two years of experience in purchasing
- One year of experience working in manufacturing environment
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Ability to read blueprints to identify and source parts
- Dependable
- Detail oriented
- Strong communication
- Must be able to multi-task and prioritize as needed
- Experience with negotiating favorable pricing
- Ability to perform cost analyses
Benefits:
- Health, Dental & Vision insurance available after 60 days of employment
- Company paid Life, Short & Long-Term Disability.
- Voluntary life insurance, accident, critical illness
- 401k Plan with company match after one year of employment
- 80 hours of paid holidays per year
- Paid birthday time off
- Potential Quarterly Bonus
- Yearly Reviews
Earning Potential:
$42,000 + depending on experience
Two potential annual bonuses
Hours:
Full-time position in Dixon, IL
Monday – Friday 7:30am – 4pm
Other facts
About Sewer Equipment Co Of America
Sewer Equipment is the corporate home of Sewer Equipment Co. of America, RAMVAC Vacuum Excavators and Mongoose Jetters. With over 80 years of experience, Sewer Equipment manufactures the most innovative, high quality sewer cleaning and excavation equipment for the municipal and contractor markets around the world.
Sewer Equipment is a third generation family-owned company that was started in 1941 by H.T. O’Brien in the basement of his Chicago, Illinois home, He designed a small hand operated tool that was built to assist plumbers in cleaning drains. This tool was comprised of a short coiled cable attached to a hand drill. The flexible cable allowed the tool to navigate around turns and bends and better attack the blockage. This innovation gave birth to Sewer Equipment, that has recognized significant growth since its very humble beginnings. Over the years, the O’Brien family has grown the business with on-going commitment to designing and manufacturing innovative, high quality equipment and providing world class customer service. Sewer Equipment's current product offering includes combination sewer cleaners, truck jets, trailer jets, easement machines, vacuum excavators, bucket machines, mechanical rodders and parts/accessories.
Sewer Equipment has a long history of introducing innovative products into the market, including the first trailer mounted jetter with a rotating hose reel, the 800-HPR truck jet with its patented all-weather design, the Model 900 ECO combination sewer cleaning with its patented hydro drive system, the first jet-tv system using umbilical cord technology, the first mid-size hydro excavator (Ram-Vac HX-6), and the first easement machine with hydraulic push-out wheels…just to name a few.
Sewer Equipment: Best Products. Best Local Support.
What you'll do
- The Buyer will negotiate pricing and lead times with vendors, implement purchase orders, and resolve delivery challenges. They will also monitor open purchase orders and communicate with various departments to ensure quality and delivery of materials.
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