What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at Borusan Pipe US?
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Description
Working Conditions:
Working conditions are of a professional office environment. Administrative personnel may require the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) to include but not limited to; eye safety glasses, hearing protection, work boots, and hardhats.
Description
Working Conditions:
Working conditions are of a professional office environment. Administrative personnel may require the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) to include but not limited to; eye safety glasses, hearing protection, work boots, and hardhats.
- Qualifications:
- Associate or Higher college degree in business or engineering required.
- Minimum one-year previous work experience in operations, maintenance, purchasing, or MRO inventory management required.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office (required) and Auto CAD (preferred).
- Experience with analysis and reading component/engineering drawings. (preferred)
- Knowledge of the manufacturing processes, procedures, and machinery.
- Ability to read documents (in English) such as operating and maintenance instructions, procedure/equipment manuals. Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers (in English).
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate commercial aspects with suppliers and ability to build and manage supplier relationships.
- Demonstrated logical reasoning and critical thinking (problem solving).
- Previous manufacturing industry experience preferred.
- Experience in preparing, negotiating, and finalizing MSA (Master Service Agreements), ARA (Annual Rate Agreements), SLA (Service Level Agreements), and RFQ/P (Request for Quotation/Proposal) is preferred.
- Experience with imports and customs procedures is preferred.
- Experience with sourcing globally or ability to work with oversees vendors with different time zones is desired. It may require calls and/or meetings outside normal office hours.
- Responsibilities:
- Operate within standard operating procedures (SOPs) and Job Safety Analysis (JSAs).
- Perform purchasing activities pertaining to MRO and Consumable items, ensuring the avoidance of any unscheduled downtimes or unwarranted safety incidents at all times.
- Assist other MRO Buyers as required.
- Must be available and able to work outside the normal work week schedule when needed. (Emergency breakdowns and Scheduled Outages.)
- Participate in Planned Maintenance activities, as required, organized by Maintenance Department to ensure adequate support for the maintenance plans.
- Work with Vendors, Outside Contractors and Suppliers to obtain quotes for projects, parts and other services.
- Create purchase orders and follow up with Vendors until the purchase order obligations are met.
- Ensure adequate communication between internal and external parties such that everyone affected has clear understanding of what to expect from parts/services delivery, time, etc.
- Follow up with users to ensure timely creation of Purchase Requisitions for non-inventory items, avoiding potential downtime or safety incidents.
- Work with Accounts Payable to verify the delivery of purchased items and ensure timely payments to vendors.
- Assist with Request-for-Quotation (RFQ) creation, Vendor Selection, Vendor Evaluation and other Vendor Management activities as required.
- Ensure adherence to Borusan’s Procurement Policies and Procedures administered by the VP of Supply Chain.
- Assist in maintaining min/max levels of the inventoried items in storeroom/warehouse utilizing past usage history and delivery lead times.
- Propose changes to min/max levels as required to avoid any “stock out” situations causing prolonged downtimes.
- Ensure service vendor adhere to Safety rules and regulations of Borusan.
- Activities:
- Participate in maintenance planning meetings to understand expectations and requirements of stock items from storeroom/warehouse or new purchasing needs for non-stock items.
- Undertake activities relating to purchasing of inventories or non-inventories MRO and consumable items including but not limited to RFQ creation, Vendor Selection, Vendor Evaluation, PO creation and follow up through delivery of procured parts or services.
- Work with storeroom attendants to ensure adequate min/max levels of inventories items.
- Support cycle counts or physical inventory counts for the warehouse as required.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Authority and Obligation:
- Work closely with Engineering and Operations Management Team on various projects and planning outages.