Purchasing Specialist

5 days ago

Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States King Aerospace Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Purchasing Specialist to join our team at King Aerospace. As a key member of our procurement team, you will be responsible for ordering parts, materials, and supplies in a timely manner, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and company policies.

Key Responsibilities
  • Procurement and Inventory Management: Order and distribute parts, materials, and supplies to support mission requirements, ensuring adequate inventory levels and timely delivery.
  • Vendor Qualification and Management: Qualify and manage approved vendors, ensuring they meet quality and delivery standards, provide competitive pricing, and are a qualified and approved source.
  • Problem-Solving and Communication: Respond to vendor production and delivery problems, providing inter-departmental assistance and ensuring timely resolution.
  • Shortage Reporting and Expediting: Monitor shortage reporting, provide vendor expediting interface for critical purchased material requirements, and ensure adequate vendor response to production schedules and reschedules.
  • Purchasing Lead Times and Performance Data: Provide and update purchasing lead times for daily materials management, ensuring adequate vendor response to production schedules and reschedules, and maintain objective performance data for vendor findings.
  • Cost Savings and Quality Improvement: Identify and report cost-saving opportunities, provide timely management of non-conformance reports, and improve overall quality.
  • Invoice Review and Resolution: Review and resolve invoices that deviate from acknowledged contracts or confirmed agreements, and perform any required staff work or cost/price analysis.
Requirements
  • Education and Experience: Minimum of three years of industrial purchasing experience, with previous aviation purchasing experience highly desired.
  • Language Ability: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations, and ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
  • Math Ability: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
  • Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
  • Computer Skills: Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, internet software, email, database software, inventory software, and order processing software.
Work Environment

The Purchasing Specialist will work in a fast-paced environment with moderate noise levels, occasional exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, and regular use of computer and communication equipment.

Physical Demands
  • Physical Activity: Regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear, frequently required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
  • Lifting and Carrying: Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.

King Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, pregnancy, genetics, or any other legally protected status.

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