Location:
Pullman, WA 99163
Status:
Full Time, Employee
Job Category:
Manufacturing/Production/Operations
Relevant Work Experience:
5+ to 7 Years
Education Level:
Bachelor's Degree
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Company:
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Website:
www.selinc.com/careers
Reference Code:
09SBUYER001
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Senior Buyer
The Opportunity:Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and detailed individual for our Senior Buyer position. If you are looking for an opportunity to work with supply chain professionals in a fast paced, electronics manufacturing environment, then this may be the position for you! SEL is located in Eastern Washington where you'll enjoy an unmatched quality of life. Enjoy the smaller town life: country space, freedom from traffic, easy access to recreational activities in nearby mountains, rivers, and forests, as well as great schools and universities. Senior Buyer Responsibilities: - Utilize MRP System to procure materials for manufacturing production consistent with quality, delivery and costs expectations.
- Analyze changes in market conditions, prices, and suppliers.
- Develop material cost reduction strategies.
- Develop and maintain cost models by commodities and suppliers.
- Negotiate and monitor procurement contracts.
- Issue and review quotes, contact vendors, and award component bids.
- Manage supplier relationships.
- Facilitate commodity management teams.
- Conduct supplier qualification audits.
- Evaluate vendor performance.
- Follow and improve purchasing processes.
Qualifications: - Bachelors degree in business or Associates degree with related experience
- Understanding of electronics technology, manufacturing methods and total quality processes
- Minimum five years experience with purchasing or related field
- Familiarity with electronics purchasing
- Knowledge of purchasing/accounting interactions
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Hands-on use of automated electronic data system software
- Excellent writing and speaking skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Intermediate experience level with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint applications
- Ability to manage multiple projects
- Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
- Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
- Background check results satisfactory to SEL
- Negative drug test results(s)
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience as a Commodity Manager and/or Purchasing Supervisor
- Experience negotiating capital equipment purchases and contract terms
- APICS/CPM Certifications
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Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service, which has enabled us to expand both within the electric utility market and into industrial, international, and OEM markets.
In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven categories of performance including technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. SEL provides an excellent work environment and is the recipient of several awards, including one of the "100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State" (Puget Sound Business Journal, 1999 - 2003), "Most Innovative Supplier" (Energex, 2002), "Entrepreneur of the Year" (Ernst & Young, 2000), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA). |
Are you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.
Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to over 1000 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions. Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.
Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the company's growth. In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value. If you are ready for the challenge and benefits of being part of the SEL team, and you meet the requirements listed above, please apply online at www.selinc.com/careers.
Benefits: SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work environment.
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We ask all candidates to submit their resume through our website at www.selinc.com/careers. If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, plase submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.
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