Mission:

As the Electrical Buyer, you play a crucial role in keeping projects on track by ensuring materials are available when needed. With your in-depth field experience, you’ll understand the specific needs of the project. This role focuses on reviewing material requests, securing competitive quotes, and managing orders to meet project specs and deadlines. When standard lead times won’t cut it, you’ll step in to find alternative solutions to keep projects flowing. You’ll be responsible of reducing supply risks, maintaining vendor relationships, proper documentation and cost savings. You serve as a key contributor to a high-performance Procurement Team, which contributes significantly to the operational success of A-C Electric Company.

Key Responsibilities:

• Material Reservations: Ensure the timely and proactive reservation of essential materials to support ongoing operations and project timelines. This role involves closely monitoring project demands to secure necessary materials with vendors to mitigate risks of shortages or delays, ensuring operational continuity and project success. Confirm material specifications align with project requirements.
• Identify Alternative Sourcing Options: Discover new material sources and cost-saving opportunities for stakeholder consideration. Propose viable options to the Project Management Teams for consideration. Actively seek and evaluate new sourcing opportunities to enhance material availability and cost efficiency. Propose alternative materials and suppliers to operations, considering factors such as cost, quality, and supply chain resilience.
• Inventory and Surplus Usage: Work in partnership with Material and Equipment Coordination (MEC) Teams to optimize inventory levels and promote the use of surplus materials. This duty requires coordination and collaboration to achieve optimal inventory turnover and minimize excess, thus driving cost savings and operational effectiveness.
• Facilitate Competitive Bids: Oversee the process of soliciting bids (RFQs) for purchases above $10K. Develop RFQs and distribute to selected vendors. Evaluate vendor quotes based on TCO factors, including price, lead time, freight terms, material specifications, and past performance.
• Execute Purchase Orders: Manage the day-to-day execution of purchase orders. This involves not only processing purchase orders promptly and ensuring that materials are delivered on schedule, but also meticulously documenting and memorializing the terms negotiated with vendors. This includes commitments related to unit price, quantities, delivery times, and quality specifications. Accuracy with these committed costs aid in precise monthly financial projections and is crucial for maintaining budget integrity.

Additional Job Duties:

• Support Procurement Expeditor and Procurement Coordinator : Occasionally provide material expediting support to ensure timely arrivals of necessary materials. Resolve POD and invoicing discrepancies in weekly meetings with Procurement Expeditor and Procurement Coordinator.
• Effective Communication: Maintain transparent and frequent communication. Keep stakeholders updated on material reservation and purchase order status and promptly address concerns.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Forge collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams to foster cohesive and streamlined procurement operations.
• Vendor Relations: Cultivate strong vendor relationships, ensure adherence to purchase order obligations, and proactively resolve issues like order discrepancies and returns.
• Continuous Improvement: Meet department OKRs and champion process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Implement best practices in procurement and purchase order processes. Consolidate purchase orders for efficiency gains.
• Safety and Compliance: Champion a culture of safety and ensure materials are handled, stored, and transported in compliance with safety regulations.
• Perform Additional Duties : The duties and responsibilities are intended to describe the general nature and scope of work being performed by this position. This is not a complete listing and other duties will be assigned based on the position’s role within the business unit.

Skills, Qualifications and Requirements:

• Minimum 7 years of electrician experience in the field, industrial or commercial preferred.
• A working knowledge of electrical construction materials, coupled with the ability to source alternative vendor options is preferred, but not required.
• 3 years of procurement experience preferred, but not required.
• Proficient in using a computer and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.).

Pay Range: $65,000 – 100,000 . Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered.

*A-C Electric Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer; women, veterans, and minorities are encouraged to apply.