Procurement Coordinator

Project Start Recruitment Solutions; West of England; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Start Recruitment Solutions represents a well-established precision engineering business based in Bristol and Westbury, seeking a Procurement Coordinator to join their team. The role focuses on purchasing materials, supplier management, and coordinating subcontracted work.

You will support customer accounts, manage job packs, monitor delivery dates and lead times, and help reduce costs while maintaining strong supplier relationships.

Qualifications

• Excellent organisational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Commercially aware with confidence challenging prices and lead times.
• Experienced dealing with suppliers, subcontractors and customers.
• Comfortable in a busy manufacturing/engineering environment and collaborating across teams.

Responsibilities

• Purchase raw materials, bought-out items, consumables and other procurement needs.
• Obtain and compare supplier quotations; negotiate pricing, lead times and terms.
• Coordinate subcontract activities (plating, coating, grinding, heat treatment and special machining).
• Monitor lead times, escalate issues affecting delivery and build strong supplier relationships.
• Support customer accounts with day-to-day order and delivery updates; communicate priorities internally.

Skills

Highly organised

Commercial awareness

Supplier management

Team player

Customer communication

Job description

The Company

Our client is a well-established Precision Engineering business based in Bristol, with operations supporting both Bristol and Westbury. Due to continued growth, they are looking for an organised and commercially minded Procurement Coordinator to join their team.

Key Responsibilities

Procurement & Purchasing

• Purchase raw materials, bought-out items, consumables and other business requirements.
• Obtain and compare supplier quotations and negotiate pricing, lead times and commercial terms.
• Challenge price increases and identify opportunities to reduce purchasing costs.
• Develop strong supplier relationships and identify alternative suppliers where beneficial.
• Maintain visibility of outstanding purchase orders and expected delivery dates.
• Coordinate purchasing across Bristol and Westbury where appropriate to improve buying power and reduce unnecessary costs.

Material & Job Pack Coordination

• Ensure purchased materials are correctly linked to the relevant job number, part number and production requirement.
• Maintain visibility of materials awaiting allocation or their next operation.
• Help prevent production delays caused by missing, incorrectly allocated or unidentified materials and paperwork.

Subcontract Management

• Coordinate external processes including plating, coating, grinding, heat treatment and specialist machining.
• Progress subcontract orders and maintain visibility of work held externally.
• Monitor lead times, identify potential delays and escal ate issues that could affect delivery.
• Build strong relationships with subcontractors to improve turnaround times and service.

Customer Account Support

• Support selected customer accounts with day-to-day order and delivery communication.
• Respond to customer enquiries and provide accurate, timely updates.
• Communicate customer priorities internally and proactively highlight potential delivery issues.
• Help maintain strong customer relationships through professional and consistent communication.

About You

• Highly organised and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Commercially aware, with confidence challenging prices and lead times.
• Experienced in dealing with suppliers, subcontractors and customers.
• Comfortable working in a busy manufacturing or engineering environment.
• A team player who can work effectively with Production, Quality, Goods In and Management.

Previous experience in procurement, purchasing, supply chain, subcontract management, customer service or precision engineering/manufacturing would be advantageous.

What Success Looks Like

• Reduce purchasing costs and identify commercial savings.
• Improve material and subcontract lead times.
• Reduce production delays caused by missing materials or paperwork.
• Improve supplier and subcontractor performance.
• Keep job packs and materials correctly organised and traceable.

This is an exciting opportunity to join on of the most and well-stablished engineering organisations in the Southwest, great company benefits with a salary of up to £40,000 per annum for the right candidate depending on experience