Buyer​/Procurement Specialist

Who We Are

PCI is a small, high-performing team with a big mission: to become a global leader in precise, high-performance composite products. Based in Toronto, our 28,000-square-foot facility is where ideas take shape, featuring advanced manufacturing capabilities, a 3,000-square-foot clean room, and a commitment to quality that exceeds industry standards. We are AS9100 Rev D and ISO 9001:2015 certified, ensuring excellence in everything we create.

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At PCI, we live by the PCI PACT:

Performance, Accountability, Collaboration, and Trust.

These values guide everything we do, driving innovation, fostering teamwork, and maintaining the highest standards in our work.

When opportunities arise, here's what you can expect from joining our team:

• Work on groundbreaking projects shaping the future of sea, air, and space technology
• Be part of a dynamic, supportive environment where innovation thrives
• Collaborate with a team dedicated to excellence and pushing the limits of composite manufacturing

If you're looking for a company where your skills and ideas can make an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

The Buyer / Procurement Specialist keeps PCI's projects supplied with the right materials at the right time and the right price, while building vendor relationships that hold up under a tight schedule. The role owns purchasing, vendor management, and inventory cost visibility, and looks for ways to use modern tools, including AI-assisted approaches, to make purchasing and inventory administration faster and more accurate without losing PCI's relationship-first way of working with suppliers.

Other duties may be assigned.

• Plan and purchase materials necessary to support successful execution of PCI's projects
• Support the quoting process via RFQs to vendors, working with the quoting team to source appropriate materials
• Review quotes to determine suppliers offering the best combination of quality and price
• Complete purchase orders per AS9100 requirements and PCI internal processes, ensuring quality requirements are understood and passed to vendors

• Build and maintain strong, trustworthy relationships with existing and potential vendors
• Perform periodic analysis of vendor performance and work with QA via PCI's vendor approval process
• Resolve order issues, delays, and discrepancies directly with vendors while protecting the relationship

• Review inventory at regular intervals to ensure stock levels in PCI's systems are accurate and adequate
• Track project-related material costs and support cash flow visibility and project budgeting
• Track status of orders and resolve purchase order errors as required

• Identify opportunities to use AI-assisted tools and process improvements to streamline purchasing and inventory administration
• Lead improvements in purchasing, inventory, and logistics processes
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date records across PCI's systems

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, or a related field
• 3 to 5 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain, ideally in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems required; familiarity with Pro Shop ERP is an asset
• Comfort with AI-assisted tools and genuine interest in using them to improve purchasing and administrative workflows
• Strong communicator, comfortable building and maintaining vendor relationships at all levels
• Solid understanding of cash flow and project budgeting as they relate to purchasing decisions
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft suite
• Experience with AS9100 or ISO considered…