Buyer

Classification: Exempt

Department: Business Development

Reports to: Purchasing Manager

Date: June 2025

Buyer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Summary/ Objectives

The Buyer will be responsible for sourcing, purchasing, and managing materials, supplies, and components for our manufacturing operations. This role is vital to ensuring the timely availability of materials, optimizing costs, and maintaining efficient production processes.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Procurement Management: Source and purchase raw materials, components, tools, and other supplies required for manufacturing operations in a cost-effective and timely manner.
• Supplier Management: Identify and establish relationships with reliable suppliers, negotiate prices, terms, and delivery schedules, and monitor supplier performance to ensure high quality and on-time deliveries.
• Inventory Control: Maintain accurate inventory levels, track stock usage, and ensure that the manufacturing facility has adequate supplies to meet production schedules while minimizing excess stock.
• Purchase Orders: Prepare, process, and manage purchase orders (POs), ensuring all orders are accurate and comply with internal procedures. Resolve any discrepancies related to orders, deliveries, and invoices.
• Cost Optimization: Work closely with the finance and operations teams to meet budgetary goals and look for opportunities to reduce procurement costs through strategic negotiations and process improvements.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that purchased materials meet quality standards and specifications. Work with suppliers to resolve any quality-related issues that may arise.
• Logistics Coordination: Collaborate with logistics and warehouse teams to coordinate the timely delivery of materials and minimize any disruptions to production.
• Supplier Performance Monitoring: Regularly review supplier performance, assessing delivery timelines, product quality, and customer service to ensure supplier reliability and continuity.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to company policies, regulatory standards, and environmental guidelines regarding procurement practices.
• Data Analysis & Reporting: Maintain accurate records of purchases, inventory levels, and supplier performance. Prepare reports and analyses for management, highlighting trends, cost savings, and opportunities for improvement.

Competencies

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory roles.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment. The position requires frequent visits to all areas within the facility, including the manufacturing area. While in the manufacturing area, the team member may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the manufacturing environment can be loud.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift or move office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

Position Type & Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Travel

Some out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected.

Required Education & Experience

Preferred Education & Experience

Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO)

Puck provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all team members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Puck complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Puck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Puck’s team members to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.