International Purchasing Specialist

International Purchasing Specialist

Milwaukee Valve Company is looking for an International Purchasing Specialist to join our New Berlin, WI team in Department 650.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Supplier Communication – communicate with suppliers to obtain quotes, availability, and delivery schedules. Maintain strong relationships with suppliers.
• Order Processing / Management – utilize SAP ERP system to prepare and process purchase orders in accordance with company policies. Monitor order status & follow up with suppliers to ensure timely delivery. Keep system current with arrival dates. Coordinate with Accounting, Logistics, and Receiving teams to manage payments, importation of goods, and transportation receipts.
• Inventory Management
  - Assist in tracking inventory levels consistent with current demand, trends, bookings, and impact orders.
• Documentation & Reporting - maintain accurate records of purchases, supplier communications, and inventory levels. Work with reports on purchasing activities & supplier performance.
• Compliance - ensure compliance with international trade regulations, product classifications, customs requirements, and company policies. Maintain shipment documentation as required for audit & compliance reviews.
• Team Support - collaborate with other team members to achieve departmental goals. Participate in training and development opportunities to enhance purchasing skills. Provide backup for other team members as needed.
• SAP experience a plus.
• Other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Additional requirements to perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following requirements and competencies:

Oral Communication
- Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, listens and gets clarification, and responds well to questions.

Professionalism
- Approaches others in a tactful manner, reacts well under pressure, treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position, accepts responsibility for own actions, follows through on commitments.

Quality
- Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, looks for ways to improve and promote quality, applies feedback to improve performance, monitors own work to ensure quality.

Quantity – Completes work in a timely manner. Works quickly.

Safety and Security – Observes safety and security procedures, determines appropriate action beyond guidelines, reports potentially unsafe conditions, uses equipment and materials properly.

Attendance/Punctuality – Consistently at work and on time, takes responsibility for own actions, keeps commitments, completes task on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate path.

Dependability
- Follows instructions, responds to management direction, takes responsibility for own actions, keeps commitments, commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals, completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.

Qualifications – To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience – Associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent from a two-year college or technical school, or six months to one year of related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience. SAP experience preferred.

Language Skills
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating, maintenance instructions, and procedural manuals. Ability to write reports and business correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization.

Mathematical Skills – Be able to do buy vs make analysis using basic costing analysis. Understanding of Engineering drawings, dimensions, and tolerances.

Reasoning Ability
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written…