Engineering Buyer Procurement Supply Chain
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire YO8
Salary: £35,000 - £43,000 per annum
Permanent Office Based role.
Work Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week, with office hours between 8.30 am and 5 pm Monday to Friday
Are you an experienced Technical Engineer with a background in mechanical and/or electrical components procurement in the engineering or manufacturing sector? Hawk 3 Talent Solutions are looking for a Technical Engineer to oversee the purchasing of technical goods and services. Working alongside the procurement office, you will ensure all suppliers and subcontractors deliver in alignment with our company's requirements. This role is pivotal to maintaining operational efficiency.
The Role
In this role, you'll experience a dynamic and fast-paced environment that can be challenging yet incredibly rewarding. If you thrive under pressure and value a friendly and collaborative workplace culture, we encourage you to apply. This is your opportunity to join a dedicated team as a Technical Buyer and make a significant impact on our business operations.
Responsibilities:
1. Cultivate and sustain professional relationships with our suppliers and subcontractors to continuously enhance cost-effectiveness, quality, and continuity of supply.
2. Assist in building a supplier database to support the business.
3. Identify and source components based on quality and price.
4. Collect data and report supplier KPIs, manage non-conformance and always work on continual improvement across the supply chain.
5. Work closely with our Technical Department supporting ongoing projects on all aspects of procurement.
6. Understand price analysis and can interrogate the Supplier's price to determine value for money.
7. Collaborate closely with suppliers and subcontractors to expedite deliveries, ensuring that promised shipment dates are met and disruptions to our production schedule are minimized.
8. Comply with the Management System requirements for Health and Safety ensuring others work to company policies and procedures.
9. Comply with Risk Assessments, Method Statements and the Health and Safety Management System.
10. Ensure compliance with the management systems requirement for the Environment and Quality by working to company policies and procedures.
11. Undertake additional responsibilities and tasks as required.
Skills/Experience
A proven background in buying electrical and mechanical components in the engineering or manufacturing sector.
Professional Certifications / Member of CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply).
Proficiency in negotiation at all levels, with a track record of securing favorable terms and conditions.
Proficiency in IT systems, knowledge of SAP would be an advantage but not essential.
Excellent interpersonal and team-working skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues and external partners.
A systematic, logical, and organized approach to managing a high-volume workload.
Ability to work calmly under pressure and maintain professionalism, particularly during urgent and critical procurement situations.
It would be beneficial to be able to read engineering drawings or BOM and identify critical aspects of a specification.
Ability to provide quality information within deadlines.
Attention to detail.
Benefits
24 days holiday + bank holidays, free parking, death in service benefit, company pension & Employee Wellbeing programme.
If you would like to apply for the role of Buyer then please email your CV or call Deb on (phone number removed). Closing date is 4.1.25. Please note this could change subject to suitable applications.
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