Purchasing Manager

The Role A role like this isn’t for someone who merely manages purchasing—it’s for someone who thrives where precision, pressure, and purpose collide. In this aerospace manufacturing environment, every decision you make keeps production moving, missions on track, and compliance airtight. You’ll be the force that maintains continuity of supply despite shifting demand, supplier constraints, and unforgiving schedules. If you’re the kind of professional who stays sharp under pressure, solves problems before others even see them coming, and understands how tightly procurement must sync with dynamic production schedules, this is where your expertise becomes mission‑critical.

Candidates with prior hands-on experience in production planning and scheduling are strongly preferred.

Essential Functions Direct and control all purchasing and materials management activities, ensuring alignment with aerospace quality standards, regulatory requirements, and customer contractual obligations

Develops, enforces, and continuously improves procurement policies, procedures, and systems governing aerospace material, components, tooling, capital equipment, and specialized services

Ensures uninterrupted material flow to support production schedules despite long lead times, constrained suppliers, engineering changes, and urgent customer requirements

Serves as a primary escalation point for supply chain disruptions, supplier quality issues, expedites, and delivery recovery actions

Supports aerospace programs and off‑site operations while maintaining compliance with AS9100, ITAR, FAR/DFARS, and customer‑specific requirements

Partners cross‑functionally with engineering, planning, production, quality, supplier quality, warehouse, sales, and finance to rapidly resolve production‑critical material issues

Develops and maintains a robust supplier selection, qualification, and risk assessment process appropriate for aerospace components and special processes

Establishes systems to evaluate supplier quotes using aerospace‑appropriate negotiation techniques considering quality, traceability, lead time, capacity, and lifecycle cost Designs, implements, and monitors procurement dashboards providing real‑time visibility into supplier performance, shortages, and program risk Builds and maintains a qualified aerospace supplier base capable of meeting technical, quality, delivery, and compliance requirements

Prepares, issues, and manages purchase orders and change notices with a focus on configuration control, traceability, and documentation accuracy

Reviews and negotiates contracts, bids, and long‑term supplier agreements to ensure legal compliance, pricing integrity, and adherence to aerospace specifications

Negotiates complex procurements involving long lead‑time components, sole‑source suppliers, special processes, and high‑value aerospace equipment

Manages supplier delivery commitments and recovery plans to ensure on‑time delivery in full (OTIF) in support of production and customer milestones

Tracks and drives key performance metrics including supplier quality, delivery performance, cost variance, and corrective action closure

Supports audits, customer visits, and regulatory reviews related to procurement and supplier management

May require up to 10% travel to suppliers for qualification, corrective action follow‑up, audits, or escalation support

Enflite believes that each employee makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this position description is designed to outline primary duties, qualifications, and job scope, but not limit the individual nor the organization to just the work identified. It is our expectation that each employee will offer his/her services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our endeavors.

Job Specifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)
Demonstrated ability to perform effectively in high‑pressure aerospace manufacturing environments with zero‑defect expectations

Demonstrated experience in production planning and scheduling, with the ability to align procurement execution to dynamic aerospace manufacturing…