Intermediate Buyer and Expeditor

2 months ago

Calgary, Canada Vista Projects Limited Full time

**What Vista Does**:
Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients **navigate the digital transformation** of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a “single source of truth” model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs, cost overruns and project completion delays.

**Why We Do It**:
We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years, our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects, from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.

**Where We Work**:
**What You Would Do in This Role**:
The Buyer is responsible for planning and performing procurement activities to ensure the timely purchase of materials, services and equipment to meet project requirements. Duties include:

- Working within a project team environment, potentially on multiple projects
- Ensuring timely and cost-effective procurement while adhering to client requirements and proper procurement practices
- Developing and maintaining status reports
- Assisting with the preparation of procurement strategy documents
- Preparing, issuing and evaluating standard procurement documents including bid lists, requests for quotation / proposal and commercial bid evaluations
- Purchasing complex engineered equipment and services as well as electrical, instrumentation, structural steel and piping commodity materials
- Developing and executing appropriate bidding strategies
- Creating and issuing purchase orders for materials and services
- Negotiating commercial terms including but not limited to progress payments and terms and conditions
- Attending status meetings with clients, project management and suppliers
- Developing and managing vendor/contractor relationships
- Understanding the interfaces between procurement and non-procurement disciplines and ensuring appropriate procurement processes and procedures are followed
- Assisting with expediting, as required
- Performing other duties as requested

**Requirements**:

- Three (3) to eight (8) years of purchasing experience
- Willingness to complete expediting activities as required
- High-school diploma or equivalent
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to adapt in a changing environment
- Ability to work without supervision

**Preferred**:

- Experience in contracts
- Post-secondary certification or equivalent
- Five years of purchasing experience in an engineering, procurement, construction environment

**Why People Like Working with Us**:
Working with Vista is a chance to contribute to the type of challenging municipal and industrial projects that the world requires. If that doesn’t excite you, this role likely won’t be a fit.

Challenging projects require focus and we enable our people to do their best work with modernized project systems that are based on our leading use of intelligent data-centric execution architecture. Our staff and clients like that it gives them real-time access to validated data shared across all project departments. This fosters project design and business decisions based on a single, authoritative source of truth and provides **increased transparency** and **collaboration** with team members and clients, leading to improved engineering quality and a product we can all take pride in.

**What We Offer**:
An opportunity with Vista is not just a job; it is a chance to tackle challenging projects with colleagues who are among the most recognized and accomplished in their disciplines.

**Vista offers all employees**:

- A stimulating, fast-paced and challenging work environment where you will contribute to the interesting municipal and industrial engineering projects
- A robust and consistent recruitment process that ensures your colleagues are likeminded and comparably capable
- An opportunity to be a part of an entrepreneurial, technically skilled team which has established leadership in innovative engineering solutions
- A strong value-based philosophy that provides an informal, close-knit team environment, where you and your family feel like a part of our organization, and not just an employee number
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including a performance-linked variable pay program
- Company-sponsored social events and team sports
- Flexible work schedules, half-day Fridays and free parking
- An organization that values and encourages diversity

**How to Apply**:
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