Senior Buyer

Responsibilities

• Research, qualify, and evaluate suppliers for technically complex nuclear and advanced manufacturing goods and services.
• Assess manufacturing capabilities, quality system maturity (ASME N-Stamp, ISO, NQA-1), experience, financial stability, and capacity.
• Conduct market intelligence on pricing benchmarks, lead times, and competitive dynamics to challenge costs and identify sourcing alternatives.
• Develop complete RFP/RFQ packages translating engineering drawings and specifications into competitive solicitations.
• Manage the full solicitation cycle – bidder lists, issuance, pre-bid meetings, Q&A, bid tabulations, evaluations, and award recommendations – coordinating with Engineering, QA, and Project Management throughout.
• Enforce competitive bidding, negotiate favorable terms, pursue consolidation opportunities, and develop alternative sources to reduce single-source dependency.
• Track and report cost savings and avoidance against budget benchmarks in a maintained savings log.
• Issue accurate POs in the ERP system covering scope, specifications, delivery, quality requirements, and regulatory flow-downs.
• Manage acknowledgements, expediting, change orders, and closeout, including verification of documentation packages (MTRs, QC records, certifications).
• Follow all procurement policies, approval authorities, and SOPs.
• Maintain complete, auditable files for every sourcing event and PO.

• 5+ years of procurement, purchasing, or buying experience in industrial, energy, power generation, capital project, or advanced manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated experience sourcing technically complex goods and services, including engineered equipment, fabricated components, specialty materials, or industrial services, with a track record of achieving cost reductions through competitive bidding, negotiation, and supplier development.
• Proficiency with ERP/procurement systems (SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, or similar) and eSourcing tools.
• Strong technical literacy: ability to read engineering drawings, understand process and fabrication specifications, and evaluate supplier technical proposals with an informed, critical eye.
• Hands‑on experience with full procure-to-pay execution: requisition intake, PO issuance, expediting, receiving coordination, and invoice resolution.
• Excellent attention to detail and documentation discipline; comfort maintaining audit‑ready procurement records.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to coordinate effectively across engineering, quality, project management, and finance stakeholders.

• ASME N-Stamp
• ISO
• NQA-1