Reporting to the Senior Manager, Maintenance and Technical Services, the MRO Buyer will be responsible for executing and managing purchasing activities related to Maintenance, Repair, and Operations materials. This role plays a critical part in ensuring operational efficiency by sourcing high-quality materials in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Key Accountabilities:
- Create purchase orders, verify bills from suppliers with bids and check for accuracy
- Generate expense and purchase reports.
- Initiate and submit AFE’s for required spare parts and services as per financial guidelines.
- Track all parts purchased and received, react appropriately to stock level activities.
- Maintain and update all spare parts inventory management, including cycle counts.
- Source out parts and provide alternative solutions when needed.
- Track all purchasing activities utilizing the plant CMMS
- Assist Processing payments and invoices
- Negotiate supplier contracts and monitor for cost efficiencies
- Segregate returning good parts, to be repaired or discard parts by implementing the “Red Table Process”.
- Compute total cost of items purchased
- Communicate with suppliers to expedite orders as needed
- Place service calls and work orders on equipment that has a service contract
- Other duties as required
- Post-secondary education in Supply Chain or Operations Management
- 2+ years related experience
- Demonstrated ability to manage details and meet tight deadlines in an ever changing environment
- Experience in problem solving, troubleshooting, and multi-tasking.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – both written and verbal in English
- ERP experience strongly desired
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