Varstaff is searching for an Aerospace Purchaser for Ardmore, Oklahoma.  

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for ordering parts, materials, and supplies in a timely manner. Responsible for qualifying approved vendors. Responsible for ensuring daily functions are in compliance with the Repair Station Manual and Operations Manual.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

• Other duties may be assigned.
• Orders, distributes, and maintains an inventory of adequate parts, supplies, and equipment, to be available for distribution to all team members in support of mission requirements.
• Ensures vendors meet on-time deliveries with quality products and equipment, provide competitive pricing, and are a qualified and approved source.
• Respond to vendor’s production and delivery problems with the proper inter-departmental assistance from Planning, Production, Quality Assurance, and Inventory Management and Stockroom functions.
• Monitors shortage reporting to provide vendor expediting interface for critical purchased material requirements.
• Provides and continuously updates purchasing lead times for daily materials management, ensuring adequate vendor response to production schedules and reschedules.
• Takes prompt action when vendor commitments are not in line with the production requirements.
• Maintains objective performance data for vendor findings.
• Provides timely management of non-conformance reports to improve overall quality and provides data for corrective action and the reduction of rejections.
• Reports and documents all cost saving and cost avoidance activities and reviews with management any significant cost escalations.
• Reviews and resolves all invoices that deviate from the acknowledged contract's purchase price or in lieu of confirmed agreements.
• Performs any staff work or cost/price analysis that may be required.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

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 essential functions.

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of three (3) years of industrial purchasing experience and previous aviation purchasing experience highly desired.
• Experience with shipping, receiving, inventory control, and forklift experience.

LANGUAGE ABILITY:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

MATH ABILITY:

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• Word processing
• Spreadsheets
• Internet software
• E-mail
• Database software
• inventory software
• order processing software.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

This position requires a current driver’s license.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; explosives; risk of radiation; and vibration.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to sit and use their hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.