Senior Buyer

Barber-Nichols (BN) is a premier provider of custom turbo machinery solutions serving the Defense, Aerospace, Cryogenics, and Energy industries. Our team consists of industry leaders who collaborate closely with equally accomplished customers to deliver technologies that advance their markets and establish enduring partnerships. At BN, we foster a results-driven environment that values professional growth, rewards achievement, and supports innovation. From designing the blower for NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan to engineering critical components for the U.S. Navy’s MK-48 program, BN’s portfolio spans some of the most exciting and impactful projects in the world.

For those seeking to contribute to impactful projects alongside a highly skilled team, BN offers an exceptional place to build your career.

The Senior Buyer reviews, coordinates and processes all purchase requisitions for raw materials, goods, and services, negotiates price/delivery, and issues purchase orders (PO). The ability to identify and work within budgetary and scheduling requirements is critical to success. Also responsible for complex, multi-year, large order placement with variable schedule requirements.

• 1. Understand outside machining requirements, including the ability to interpret engineering drawings and specifications, and appropriately facilitate communication between Production Control, Engineering, and suppliers.
• 2. Process organization’s purchase requisitions, develop procurement solicitations, negotiate price and delivery, and issue purchase orders.
• Provide periodic status and expediting to critical orders.
• Process material orders and equipment requirements.
• Process material requisitions, Purchase Orders, PO confirmations and change orders.
• Update PO pricing and delivery dates.
• Review material cost and purchase price variance status reports.
• Meet deadlines for PO’s, quotes, submittals and delivery dates.
• Review and approve pricing, terms, freight, etc.
• 3. Prepare all aspects of procurement solicitations, including terms and conditions, customer contract flow down requirements, scope of work, and other requirements to facilitate acquisition of raw materials, goods, and services
• Review and negotiate quoted material packages.
• Understand units of measure and determine how to buy per the appropriate unit of measure.
• Review material package and subcontract review for the scope of work.
• Provide product and pricing updates to project teams, estimating and engineering.
• 4. Administer return authorizations for discrepant materials, goods and services.
• 5. Maintain and manage preferred/qualified vendor system, collect/analyze on time delivery and incoming inspection data, and recommend subsequent action.
• Maintain supplier certification records in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Conduct vendor surveys and participate in on-site supplier audits.
• Conduct pricing comparisons and create selection criteria for suppliers.
• Review vendor performance to ensure company needs are being met.
• Generate appropriate reports and analysis to facilitate continual improvement and development of supplier base.
• Develop new relationships and maintain existing relationships with vendors.
• 6. Utilize the ERP system’s built-in demand generation tool to maintain appropriate stock levels. Responsible for process improvement and compliance.
• Review product and service offerings in order to drive cost reductions.
• Research and source new products and services.
• Support the control of externally provided processes, products, and services for ISO 9001:2015.
• Effectively communicate complex government contractual flow downs.

To qualify for this position, an individual must possess the knowledge, training, experience and abilities required.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain or similar, and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum ten years of purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment
• Must be willing to work overtime as required
• Travel up to 10% of working time.

• Ability to read and…