Aerospace Commodity Sourcing Lead

Ducommun Incorporated; Costa Mesa, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ducommun Incorporated in Costa Mesa, California, seeks a Corporate Buyer to manage commodity sourcing and supplier relationships within the Corporate Commodity Management team. The role emphasizes negotiation, cost control, and supplier performance across aerospace, defense, and industrial markets.

Responsibilities include maintaining existing supply agreements, driving supply strategy, resolving supplier issues, and ensuring data integrity, CUI handling, and compliance with ITAR/EAR/CMMC as

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or related field.
• 5 years of experience in strategic sourcing or related field.
• Aerospace or Electronic Component manufacturing experience desired.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Procurement and Aerospace regulations.
• Experience in high-mix and low-volume manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and manage existing supply agreements with key suppliers, assist in negotiating price, quality, and delivery expectations on both short-term and longer-term agreements.
• Manage direct engagement with suppliers and internal functional teams to drive implementation of the supply strategy.
• Support escalated supplier issues in terms of delivery, quality, cost and SCOPQ claims by working with performance center supply chain teams and lead issue resolution.
• Lead supplier development along with commodity strategy to have complete documents including but not limited to Ducommun NDA, Terms and Conditions, support commodity manager in LTA preparation and negotiation.
• Manage the sourcing process through detail sourcing analysis, evaluation, negotiation, and award with support and guidance with commodity manager.
• Create, maintain and benchmark commodity procurement data, benchmark commodity market development information to drive improvement in commodity management.
• Responsible for protecting and maintaining all Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) appropriately to prevent unauthorized access, dissemination, or use of this information, documentation, or products; including authorized and proper use of such information in regard to marking, storing, transmitting, and destruction of data.
• Support all visitors and security policies to protect ITAR/EAR/CMMC/CUI information, documents, products, etc. from unauthorized access by informing management immediately of any concerns.
• Responsible for the proper handling and management of hazardous waste generated in employee’s work area.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Regular and acceptable attendance is an essential function of this job.

Skills

Organizational skills

Communication

Negotiation

Sourcing strategy

Analytical skills

Excel

Power BI

PowerPoint

MS Word

Systems Database/Query

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Power BI

PowerPoint

MS Word

Databases/Querying

Job description

Ducommun Incorporated in Costa Mesa, California, seeks a Corporate Buyer to manage commodity sourcing and supplier relationships within the Corporate Commodity Management team. The role emphasizes negotiation, cost control, and supplier performance across aerospace, defense, and industrial markets.

Responsibilities include maintaining existing supply agreements, driving supply strategy, resolving supplier issues, and ensuring data integrity, CUI handling, and compliance with ITAR/EAR/CMMC as