This is your opportunity to join a custom machining and fabrication company located in Petersburg, just 5 minutes west of Kitchener where you can play a key role within our office team. You are an experienced and self-motivated individual who is looking for the chance to work in a more personal and dynamic environment. We are looking for a team player who will jump in where needed and grow with the role. This is a full-time permanent position Monday to Friday.
Position Overview:
This position is primarily a purchasing position. But also includes helping with varied administration tasks.
Primary Responsibilities:
Purchasing and Receiving:
- Create purchase orders and requestions for outside services, consumables and supplies as well as job materials and expedite products communicating directly with vendors by email or direct phone calls.
- Ability to evaluate material and suppliers to determine the best source and pricing.
- Cost reductions of materials through potential re-sourcing of current vendors, along with the negotiation of pricing, terms, and conditions.
- Receive, and inspect materials received.
- Coordinate the movement and storage of purchased materials.
- Compare invoices against purchase orders and shipping and receiving documents to verify receipt of items ordered.
- Identify discrepancies between shipments and orders and take action including investigating and resolving billing discrepancies.
- Communicate all delays or variances of inbound freight to the appropriate parties.
- Manage Inventory control systems, establish and improve storage locations, labelling, set up reordering routines and grouping.
- Restock and order supplies for shop safety supplies, consumables, cleaning products, washrooms and office supplies.
General Duties:
- Provide administrative support as needed to the team.
- Data entry and filing as required.
- Assist with customer service support, invoicing customers, entering vendor invoices, shipping, and receiving as needed.
- Entering and updating vendor data.
- Assist with Health and Safety requirements including ordering requirements, postings and maintaining SDS sheets both in hardcopy and digitally.
- Other work-related tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
- 3 years of related work experience in a manufacturing environment required.
- Post secondary education in Purchasing, Material Management or Accounting preferred.
- Experience purchasing steel an asset but not required.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- Previous experience working with ERP systems required.
- Strong work ethic and positive team attitude.
Salary:
Competitive salary based on experience.