Job Summary:
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The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) is seeking a detail-oriented individual responsible for sourcing, pricing, soliciting, analyzing, composing and/or processing purchase requests for materials, services, and supplies.
Job Duties:
- Prepares purchase orders and coordinates with complex managers in the ordering of required commodities and services
- Purchases goods and services
- Solicits verbal and written quotations
- Prepares purchase orders and coordinates with complex managers in the ordering of required commodities and services
- Researches commodity areas, specifications, and contractual terms to fulfill departmental requirements and composes bids/proposals and quotes
- Analyzes submitted proposals, seeks end user’s input, and prepares an award recommendation for the approval process
- Researches new sources and maintains lists of vendors able to service departmental needs
- Corresponds with vendors for pricing, availability and market trends
- Plans and participates in commodity surveys, analyzing results and takes necessary action
- Drives on state business
- Performs other duties as appropriate to the assignment
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):
Knowledge of:
- The Arizona Procurement Code and statewide procurement software (Arizona Procurement Portal)
- Departmental policies and procedures relating to purchasing
- Purchasing business practices and procedures
- Mathematics and general accounting techniques
- A wide variety of standard commodities and products
- Supply sourcing
- Local and national markets
- Pricing trends
- Computers and a various software application
- Business English, grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Office procedures and equipment
Skill in:
- Mathematics
- Verbal and written communications
- Building and maintaining interpersonal relations
- Customer service
- Prioritizing, organizing and multitasking
- Analyzing
- Typing and 10-key
Ability to:
- Professionally communicate with department staff and the public
- Work in a correctional environment
- Track requests/purchases
- Learn and interpret the Arizona Procurement Code and departmental policies and procedures related to purchasing
- Make arithmetic calculations rapidly and accurately
- Apply sound critical judgment
- Adapt to changing priorities and emergency orders
Selective Preference(s):
- Experience in computers and purchasing business practices and procedures
Pre-Employment Requirements:
Employment is contingent on the selected applicant passing a background investigation and drug test.
If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job, then the following requirements apply. Any employee operating a motor vehicle on State business must possess and retain a current, valid class-appropriate driver’s license, complete all required training, and successfully pass all necessary driver’s license record checks. The license must be current, unexpired, and neither revoked nor suspended. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver’s license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete all required driver training. An employee who operates a personally owned vehicle on state business shall maintain the statutorily required liability insurance (see Arizona Administrative Code (A.A.C.) ).
In an effort to maintain a safe environment, all employees are required to take a Tuberculosis (TB) test during their New Employee Orientation and every year thereafter.
All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).
Benefits:
We offer an excellent and affordable comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees:
- Vacation and sick days with 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program).
- Robust and affordable insurance plan to include medical, dental, life, short-term and long-term disability options
- Exceptional retirement program
- Optional employee benefits such as deferred compensation plans, credit union membership, and a wellness program
- An incentivized commuter club and public transportation subsidy program
Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave pilot program. For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our
Retirement:
Positions in this classification participate in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS). Enrollment eligibility will become effective after 27 weeks of employment.
Current ADC Employees: Consult with your respective Human Resources Liaison if you are in a different retirement plan than the one indicated above.