Field Buyer

Field Buyer

The Field Buyer is an essential position to ensuring that all onsite purchasing and receiving is done in accordance with company policies. Responsibilities include managing the field requisition process, obtaining competitive quotes for all material requisitions and purchases at the field level, managing the field receiving and inventory control processes, ensuring that POIR's are completed in a timely manner, ensuring that all requisition and purchases are compliant with Wanzek's Policies, setting up and managing all local vendor accounts including required documentation, coordinating with site management to ensure project has proper designated receiving/staging areas for material deliveries, ensuring all materials are stored properly according to vendor requirements, reconciling Concur credit card statement weekly, attaching approved emails or Requisition numbers, coordinating closely with Laydown Yard Foreman and Construction Managers to maintain minimum/maximum inventory on bulk materials, being responsible for warehouse/site inventory procurement activities, communicating with Wanzek's Corporate Office's and/or onsite management as the main point of contact regarding job progress and to resolve any outstanding conflicts, tracking and coordinating pre-turnover maintenance of permanent plant equipment, coordinating with Expeditor to ensure management team has accurate delivery dates, providing backup support for the Materials Receiver, and any other duties as assigned.

Qualifications include a minimum of two years of construction experience, proficiency in Microsoft Office, knowledge, skills and abilities required to take reasonable care of your own and others' health and safety and of those who may be affected by the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working toward Wanzek's Zero Injury principles, proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel, Outlook, Internet and Scheduling Software, ability to read, analyze and interpret blueprints, professional journals, technical procedures, contracts or governmental regulations, effectively present information and respond to questions from project managers, superintendents, clients, customers and the general public, knowledge of rigging and off-loading of materials, ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in standardized situations, and ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.