Engineering Purchaser
Milton Keynes
Monday:Friday Days
GBP33,000:GBP35,000
Benefits::
* 31 Days Holiday, Discounted Company Shares Scheme
* 5 Matched Private Pension and Life Assurance
* BUPA Private Healthcare
* Staff Discounts, Subsidised Canteen, Car and Bike Schemes, Team/Family Events
* Engineering Skills Matrix Training and Development Plans for all Engineers
Our client is a leading food manufacturing company, the site is part of a larger national organisation. Due to growth and further expansion within the engineering team, they are looking for an Engineering Purchaser for their busy maintenance spares/parts area.
Role and Responsibilities:
* Be responsible for ensuring spare parts for maintenance and servicing are in stock and payments made
* Purchase engineering equipment and parts to agreed spec, on time, in full and at the best cost
* Identify areas where cost and waste can be reduced
* Responsible for stores administration, financial reporting and admin
* Process POs in an accurate and timely manner to the finance teams
* Develop strong working relationships with suppliers
* Carry out stock take of the engineering stores
* Work closely with the engineering stores manager to create better stock flow and control
* Control spares costs and report on any higher costings or discontinued
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
* Have previous working experience as an engineering purchaser
* Ideally have food manufacturing experience
* Strong financial and purchasing skills
* Beneficial if worked in an engineering maintenance function
* Good IT skills, with strong Microsoft Excel experience
* Approaches tasks with a can:do attitude with the ability to create solutions to problems
* Worked closely with finance teams, looking at costings, raising POs
* Need to be a methodical character and good communicator
* Able to learn new IT systems quickly
* Good attention to detail
* Ideally have experience of conducting engineering parts stock takes
please / resume to ( ). : Chris Gumm : 010 438
If you are interested in this position please click apply.
Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent and contract roles within Engineering and Manufacturing, IT and Digital, Science and Technology and Service and Sales sectors.
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