Senior Buyer

Job Title: Senior Buyer

About the Position:

This is a challenging and rewarding role that requires a skilled and experienced Senior Buyer to lead the buying function for a new project. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that company purchasing activities support engineering, production, and other company activities in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Purchase and expedite standard and non-standard inventory and non-inventory products.
• Source, select, and maintain effective relationships with competent and dependable suppliers and subcontractors.
• Work with production planners and other buyers to ensure that all components and services are pre-scheduled with suppliers, and expedite purchased parts or products as required to maintain production schedules.
• Maintain a close liaison with engineering to ensure proper focus on technical expertise, material, design, and product rationalizations leading to cost reduction opportunities.
• Develop and implement strategic purchase agreements to ensure cost, quality, delivery, and performance of products and to mitigate any potential risks to MacLean Engineering.
• Ensure that purchase orders are clearly indicative of specified requirements and that suppliers will meet said requirements at the most competitive cost, quality, and delivery.
• Conduct monthly audits of approved suppliers to ensure that they meet or exceed expected performance indicators for quality, delivery, and cost. Phase out those that don't.
• Execute efficient and timely expediting and follow-up routines on identified shortage lists, overdue requirements, moved-in schedules for suppliers and subcontractors, and internal manufactured service components.
• Maintain accurate and current approved supplier files and documentation as pertinent to the overall performance of the buyer position and the in-house work instructions.
• Administer the tender process through the creation of RFQs and RFPs.
• Promote a professional company image through courteous and efficient dealing with suppliers and subcontractors.
• Process all invoices, invoice discrepancies, purchase price variances, and receiving discrepancies in an expeditious and efficient manner.
• Prepare the required documentation for any items deemed as non-conforming or quality rejected items, products, or parts that must be returned to a supplier or subcontractor.
• Actively liaise with the Director of Manufacturing Engineering to ensure all supplier quality issues are resolved.
• Attend company-sponsored or supplier-related training seminars as required to improve product knowledge and/or job skills.

About You:

The successful candidate must be willing to learn, be open-minded and flexible, organized and detail-oriented, team-oriented, disciplined, and have a positive attitude, along with the following qualifications:

• Diploma or degree in business administration, materials management, or a related discipline is required.
• Enrollment in or the attainment of a certificate of professional purchasing from PMAC is required.
• Strategic contract negotiation experience.
• 10+ years' experience with MRP/ERP systems.
• Experience in supply chain risk mitigation management.
• Global sourcing and logistics (familiarity with international trade regulations).
• Specific product experience in sourcing parts for motor graders.
• 5+ years' experience with managing projects for new product development and introduction.

About Us:

MacLean Engineering has been a leading innovator of underground mining equipment solutions for over 50 years. As we continue to expand our product range and geographic footprint, we remain privately owned and consistently focused on the company founder's original engineered design imperatives – safety, productivity, and enduring quality. MacLean Engineering has four manufacturing facilities located in Collingwood, Owen Sound, Barrie, and Mexico. Our workforce is comprised of various skilled trades working together in a safety and quality-oriented environment to produce components and equipment to the underground mining industry, as well as the municipal, environmental, and industrial sectors.

We offer competitive wages and benefits, including:

• 3 weeks' vacation annually.
• Paid sick and family emergency time.
• Paid overtime after 40 hours worked.
• Free coffee.
• Flexible group benefits package (once probationary period is completed).
• Employee and family assistance program.
• Voluntary DPSP (Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan) and GRRSP (Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan) (once probationary period is completed).
• Annual employee bonus.
• $250 annual safety shoe allowance.
• $200 bi-annual prescription safety glasses allowance.
• Company-paid uniforms.
• Employee appreciation days, raffles/draws, BBQs, and much more.

If you are interested in being a part of an established and growing Canadian company, we want to hear from you.