About the role
About The Role The Purchasing Assistant coordinates activities involved with procuring goods and services such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts and supplies, and purchases all inventory to meet production requirements by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Reviews requisitions.
- Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
- Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
- Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
- Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
- Prepares invoices for payment.
- Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests.
- Counts inventory items to determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity.
- Prepares purchase orders and sends to supplier and department originating request.
- Computes total cost of items purchased.
- Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries.
- Verifies bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves bills for payment.
- Expedites delivery of goods to users.
- Meets production requirements on a daily basis while controlling inventory levels with various lead times.
- Assists heavily with periodic plant inventory.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least three years of work experience in purchasing and/or costing
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
- Demonstrate a good work ethic based on principles of honesty and integrity.
- Experience with Microsoft Office.
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