Purchasing Manager

# Purchasing Manager Drylock Technologies LTDEau Claire, WI, United States Full Time
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Are you a hands-on purchasing, materials, MRO, or parts room leader who can balance strategic supplier support, purchasing execution, inventory discipline, and plant service needs in a fast-paced manufacturing environment?

Drylock Technologies in Eau Claire, WI is looking for a Purchasing Manager to support purchasing activity tied to more than $100 million in corporately sourced raw materials, while also leading local purchasing follow-through, MRO inventory performance, parts room organization, and maintenance service levels.

This is a true player-coach leadership role—ideal for someone who can partner with corporate sourcing, lead a purchasing team, improve supplier and order follow-through, stabilize the parts room, and stay close enough to the work to remove barriers for maintenance, production, and operations.

Relocation assistance available for the right candidate. This role does not support sponsorship.## Why This Role Matters This role sits at the intersection of purchasing, materials support, and plant execution. The position supports purchasing activity connected to more than $100 million in corporately sourced raw materials through the purchasing team, while also taking on a meaningful MRO and parts room improvement challenge.

The successful leader will help bring more structure, accuracy, ownership, and service discipline to a busy parts room environment that directly impacts maintenance readiness, downtime response, and production support.

Support the purchasing team responsible for corporately sourced raw materials

Partner with corporate sourcing, suppliers, operations, maintenance, and production to keep materials, parts, and services moving

Improve purchasing follow-through, order discipline, delivery visibility, supplier responsiveness, and escalation processes

Stabilize and improve the MRO parts room as a key operational priority, including creating better organization, clearer ownership, stronger inventory discipline, and more reliable support for maintenance and production

Strengthen parts availability, inventory accuracy, storage organization, and service expectations for maintenance and production support## What You’ll Own Leadership of the purchasing team supporting corporately sourced raw materials and related purchasing activity

Local purchasing execution, including purchase orders, supplier follow-up, delivery tracking, expediting, issue resolution, and internal customer support

Partnership with corporate sourcing to align plant needs, raw material requirements, supplier communication, and purchasing prioritiesMRO parts room leadership, including improving organization, accountability, service expectations, transaction discipline, labeling, storage practices, follow-through, and day-to-day issue resolutionMRO inventory strategy, including addressing excess, obsolete, hard-to-find, duplicated, or poorly classified parts while strengthening critical spares, min/max levels, cycle counts, replenishment discipline, and inventory accuracy

Parts availability and responsiveness to maintenance work orders, urgent repairs, planned shutdowns, and production support needs

Daily leadership of buyers and parts room team members with clear expectations, coaching, communication, and accountability

This Role May Be a Strong Fit If You Have led purchasing, materials, supply chain, MRO, storeroom, maintenance inventory, or plant materials functions in manufacturing

Understand how purchasing execution, supplier responsiveness, raw material support, and order follow-through impact production performance

Can partner effectively with corporate sourcing while keeping local plant needs visible and moving forward

Know how to create order in a busy parts room where availability, accuracy, labeling, storage discipline, and responsiveness all need to improve without losing urgency or customer service

Can lead people while staying close enough to the work to remove barriers and improve daily execution

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