Job Description

Position: Buyer/Purchaser

Duration: 6 Months

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, 15212

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Shift Timings: 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM

Payrate:$ 30.00 - 40.00/hr.

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is a Hightech industrial company engaged in energy, healthcare, and transportation. It operates in five segments: Power, Renewable Energy, Aviation, Healthcare, and Capital. The company offers products and services ranging from aircraft engines, power generation, and oil and gas production equipment to medical imaging, financing, and industrial products.

Job Description:

• Must be able to work in cross functional team setting.
• Resolve material shortages in a timely manner to meet production schedules.
• Reviews requisitions and prepares purchase orders
• Maintains ongoing communication with related departmental personnel to ensure timely and accurate procurement of materials / services
• Maintains computerized procurement records in Oracle, such as items or services purchased, cost, lead time, accounting term, delivery arrangements, comments, etc.
• Follow up with related departments to ensure acceptable material is received and vendors are paid within terms of purchase order,
• Handles invoice referrals.
• Expedites delivery of goods to users.
• Team player and strong professional inter-personnel skills for effective communication with vendors, clients and related departmental personnel.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work well under stress.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Understanding of supply chain management concepts (identifying and eliminating redundant costs and non-value-added procedures. etc…)
• Must be able to read, write, speech English. Read, write and speech French is a plus.
• Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed or assigned.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Qualified candidates should have knowledge of purchasing processes.
• Proficient understanding of Oracle system or any other ERP systems.
• Proficient with the MS Office products and Excel (V-Lock Up and Pivot Table) strong computer skills

EDUCATION:

• High School graduate, or general education degree required

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 3 to 5 years of relevant experience preferred
• Organizational Skills
• Computer Skills required
• Technical Capacity
• Time Management
• Counting and basic math skills
• Communication Skills

Your typical day look like:

• Working with team or self in our warehouses which includes 2 onsite as well as one off site location.
• Wearing PPE including but not limited to hearing protection, hard hat, bump cap cut resistant gloves at various times based on current project.
• Safety glasses & steel/composite toe shoes are required for entirety of shift.
• You may also be asked to perform other duties outside of your function or trade, for which adequate training will be provided if necessary.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

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