PURCHASING AGENT

As a Purchasing Agent, you will be assigned to a specific construction market within our scope of work, playing a pivotal role in ensuring the success of each project from inception to completion. Your responsibilities will encompass vendor management, procurement processes, and ensuring smooth coordination between various teams. You’ll help manage the flow of materials and services, contribute to strategic decision-making, and ensure projects stay on track by delivering on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors, continuously enhancing your knowledge of their offerings and capabilities.
• Support estimating personnel with vendor contacts, real time pricing, and lead times for specific items.
• Assist in the decision-making process for awarding engineered buyout and commodity packages. Compile quotes by material type and project phase, and request updated, discounted pricing from vendors using in-house procurement software.
• Create and manage “Hold for Release” purchase orders, and request cutsheets for submittal. Deliver completed procurement plans to the project team for final approval.
• Act as liaison between operations and distribution, ensuring constant, quality communication, detailed tracking logs, complete packing slips, organized deliveries, proper palletization of material and clear Proof of Delivery.
• Help source back-ordered items, confirming change orders to buyout packages, managing return/replacement logistics and being their sole source for procurement.
• Oversee all rental requests across the enterprise, ensuring timely and accurate rental equipment availability. Become an expert in the rental software we use, provide training to operations teams, and manage committed cost forecasting.
• Work closely with the accounting team by regularly reviewing open purchase orders in our payment software. Ensure that committed costs and received amounts are accurate, resolve any discrepancies, and close out completed purchase orders.

Qualifications 

• 5+ years of procurement/purchasing experience, preferably in construction.
• Moderate to strong familiarity with electrical commodity material.
• Strong Interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Moderate technical skills for software training and implementation.
• Task oriented, adaptable and organized.
• Must have Reliable transportation for commute and occasional jobsite visits.

Education & Certifications

• High School diploma or GED

 

Safety Level
This is a safety sensitive position, and all applicable policies including drug test and background check will apply.

 

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