Buyer

Buyer

Location: Beasley, TX, United States, 77417

Company: Chart Industries

Ensuring Chart's Success...

At Chart, we design and build some of the world's most advanced cryogenic equipment-that's how our "Cooler By Design®" tagline was born. But it's not just our technology that's cool. It's our people. We solve complex problems as a team, making us truly Cooler Together. And with the addition of Howden to the Chart family, we're Stronger Together, too. Our customers don't simply bring us equipment specs-they bring us challenges. That's where you come in. From concept and design to installation and commissioning, you'll help create solutions that support a wide range of industries and applications.

• Launching rockets into space

• Delivering Nexus of Clean solutions for clean water, clean power, clean food, and clean industrials

• Powering the carbonation in your favorite fast-food beverage

• Making nitro coffee and even nitro ice cream possible

Want to see our impact in action? Explore Chart City: . We're looking for bright, driven talent excited to build a career in an evolving, high-growth industry. Along with competitive compensation and meaningful work, Chart offers development programs designed to grow future leaders. That could be you. If you're passionate about design engineering and think a career at Chart sounds pretty cool, let's talk.

What Will You Do?

• Perform key purchasing duties including submitting RFQs, coordinating the supplier set up in the Company ERP system when necessary, bids comparison, maintaining ASL lists, entering Purchase Orders/Blanket Orders, expediting, ensuring goods are received or assisting in solving discrepancies.

• Assist Accounts Payable (AP) to resolve supplier PO -invoice discrepancies, when needed

• Procure competitively priced materials, services and equipment of the correct technical specification, in an ethical, cost effective and timely manner.

• Ensured timely delivery of goods and services to meet business requirements within supply control.

• Track and maintain purchasing records files in the JD Edwards system.

• Optimize the purchasing processes, improving the quality of proposals through better materials and services alternatives, checking that suppliers have enough materials stock and service capacity and identifies areas of opportunities through substitution of quality equipment and parts, with similar technical specifications and lower costs.

• Manage supplier and vendor base as appropriate for role including purchase order management with the various vendors and responding to and resolving invoicing inquiries in a timely manner.

• Work with other supply professionals and stakeholders to drive continuous improvement of processes & procedures emphasizing standardization and simplicity where ever possible

• Improved lead time performance within procurement process ensuring timely delivery of goods and services to meet business requirements within Supply control.

• Monitor and review material purchase orders to ensure efficient and on time delivery of goods by preferred vendors and on time payment for such materials.

• Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers, initiate and attend Supplier meetings, supplier performance reviews etc.

• Execute and control RFQ bid processes, awards, claims, and delivery of goods and services.

• Cost management to identify areas of potential cost reduction and manage cost saving metrics.

• Responsible for managing the Material Handler/Stockroom and assisting?as needed including?weekly cycle count to ensure inventory levels are accurate and maintained, correct discrepancies. (Ideally 10-20% of time/week but when training personnel 30% of time/week)

• Work with Stockroom to maintain inventory levels/safety stock.

• Provides Stockroom support in the absence of the Material Handler.

Your Education Should be...

• Associates Degree or equivalent work experience preferred.

• Experience using JD Edwards MRP system or equivalent business system(s).

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require...

• This position will require the ability to move around the production floor

• Lift up to 15 pounds

• Sitting, standing, stooping, bending, other related tasks in an office setting

• Work may involve exposure to loud noise

Your Experience Should Be...

• 2-5 years procurement experience preferably in a manufacturing environment

• Purchase order entry experience, plus if you have experience using JDE

• Proven ability to manage multiple suppliers across different manufacturing sites and commodities

• Excellent communication skills

• Excellent computer skills including MS Office, MS Teams, Quickbase, experience with JD Edwards a plus

Chart Industries is an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicants because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, military status, marital status, genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law. Additionally, it is and shall continue to be our policy to provide promotion and advancement opportunities in a non-discriminatory fashion.

Chart complies with applicable local, state, and federal statutes governing "equal employment opportunity" and nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfers, leave of absence, compensation and training.