Electronics & Control Systems Buyer

Motorsport Network, LLC; Wantage; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Williams F1 Team is seeking a procurement professional to manage electronics and control systems purchasing for a fast-paced racing environment. Responsibilities include generating purchase orders, expediting deliveries, and ensuring compliance with engineering specifications.

The role involves handling supplier terms, tender processes, and continuous improvement in obsolescence management and traceability to support race operations.

Qualifications

• Previous procurement experience in fast-changing engineering or manufacturing environments, ideally electronics or control systems commodities.
• Understanding of technical drawings, schematics and BOMs, with procurement experience of electronic components, wiring looms, sensors, PCBs or control systems hardware.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Generate Purchase Orders for the supply of electronic components, control systems hardware and related services, ensuring specifications are communicated and that the purchase requirement is properly authorised.
• Expedite and progress deliveries from suppliers and maintain timely reporting of delivery status of parts, feeding back status to internal stakeholders.
• Deal with non-conformances quickly and efficiently to minimise delays.
• Take the lead on tender processes for electronics and control systems commodities, creating new contracts with clear deliverables, lead times and terms and conditions.
• Negotiate contracts with suppliers that provide best value to the business and contribute to obsolescence management and traceability.

Job description

Role Purpose (Job Profile):

The Electronics and Control Systems Buyerisresponsible for raising and managing purchase orders for electronic components, wiring looms/harnesses,sensorsand control systems hardware, ensuring engineering specifications are correctly communicated and that the purchase requirement is properly authorised.

Main Duties:

• Generate Purchase Orders for the supply of electronic components, control systemshardwareand related services, ensuring any engineering specifications, processes or engineering up-issues (e.g. PCB revisions, firmware/hardware compatibility) are fully communicated, and that the purchase requirement is appropriately authorised.

• Expedite and progress deliveries from electronics and control systems suppliers &maintaintimelyreporting of delivery status of parts outstanding (e.g. sensors, looms, ECUs, connectors), routinely feeding back status into internal stakeholders.

• Deal with any non-conformances (e.g.componentfailures, incorrect firmware/hardware revision, damaged connectors) quickly and efficiently to minimise delays.

• Complete commercial checks of supplier payment terms, delivery terms and general Terms & Conditions for electronics and control systems suppliers to ensure that these are aligned with Williams’ requirements.

• Take the lead on tender processes for electronics and control systems commodities, creating new contracts, inclusive of clear deliverables, lead times and terms and conditions.

• Development of a strategic supply base for electronic components, wiring looms/harnesses,sensorsand control systems hardware.

• Carrying out supplier audits, including assessment of ESD control, IPC-A-610/620 compliance andcomponenttraceability processes where relevant.

• Ensure that all aspects of transactional procurement of electronics and control systems goods and services for category are achieved.

• Check Supplier Acknowledgements andchallengewhenrequired, particularly around lead time and obsolescence risk on electronic components.

• Optimise total value being delivered to the race team- on time and to the required quality standard, with particular attention tocomponenttraceability and counterfeit-avoidance.

• Negotiate contracts with suppliers that provide best value to the business.

• Rationalise and develop supplier base to those that provide best value to the business.

• Support the Procurement team to achieve departmental measures of performance.

• Support & develop continuous improvement initiatives within the team, including obsolescence management andcomponentlifecycle tracking.

• Sell the value of the Procurement function to the wider business to drive realisation of commercial opportunities via greater engagement.

• Ensure that the company's Health & Safety policy isobserved.

• Any other tasks and responsibilities required by the company that arereasonably withinthe role holders' capabilities and skill set.

Capabilities:

• Previousprocurement experience working within a fast-changing engineering or manufacturing environment, ideally withinelectronicsor controlsystemscommodities.

• F1, Automotive, Motorsports procurement experience is desirable, but not essential.

• Understanding oftechnical drawings, schematics and BOMs, with procurement experience of electronic components, wiring looms/harnesses, sensors, PCBs or control systems hardware, is desirable.

• Good problem solving and team working skills withabilityto work underowninitiative. Awareness ofcomponentobsolescence management, counterfeit-avoidancepracticeand traceability requirements (e.g.IPC-A-610/620) is desirable.

• Willingto help throughout the department and have a positive attitude.

• Excellent communication,negotiationand influencing skills are essential.

This job description is not exhaustive, and the job holder willbe requiredto carry out from time-to-time tasks in addition to the above that will be both reasonable and within their capabilities.

Additional Information

Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.