Buyer

Timberland Equipment Limited; Woodstock (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five paid holidays

Health benefits

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

HSAs

Company-match pension

Job summary

Timberland Equipment Limited in Woodstock, IL is seeking a detail-oriented purchasing professional to join a multi-disciplinary team. You will review requisitions, solicit quotations, and coordinate supplier delivery to ensure timely material arrivals for complex projects.

This role emphasizes strong negotiation, supplier management, and strategic sourcing. The company offers five paid holidays per year, a company-match pension, comprehensive benefits, and a competitive salary package.

Qualifications

• Experience purchasing in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong negotiation and supplier management skills.
• Excellent organizational and time-management abilities.
• Strategic thinking with attention to cost and delivery.
• Ability to build and maintain supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Review requisitions and ensure complete, approved, and on-budget requests.
• Solicit quotations and secure credit terms.
• Coordinate supplier communications, track progress, and shipments.
• Negotiate contracts and place orders for timely delivery.
• Review invoices and verify receipt per PO.
• Monitor shipments and ensure accurate receiving reports.

Skills

Purchasing in manufacturing

Negotiation

Supplier management

Strong organizational skills

Strategic thinking

Quantitative skills

Job description

• Interact and work directly with a multi-disciplinary team
• Professional development - be part of a team that values your contributions and recognizes the impact you make on the business
• In addition to statutory holidays and vacation, receive five paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Attractive compensation package including:
• Company-match pension

What Is In It For You

• Interact and work directly with a multi-disciplinary team
• Professional development - be part of a team that values your contributions and recognizes the impact you make on the business
• In addition to statutory holidays and vacation, receive five paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Attractive compensation package including:
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits - health, medical, dental, vision, paramedical, HSA
• Company-match pension

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE COOL PROJECTS DESIGNED AND BUILT

• Hoists for the world’s second heaviest on-shore lifter at 13,000 tons
• High speed winches and control system for a 2,000-foot artificial surfing pool
• Gate hoists on the largest infrastructure project in Canada
• Mechanical stage device for Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas
• Shaft sinking winches with 110,000 lbs line pull for mining projects in Australia
• Mooring and riser pull-in systems for multiple offshore energy projects world-wide
• Hoists for aqueduct construction which supplies 50% of drinking water to New York City
• A cable tensioning system that sets up the Artemis Emergency Egress System at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

What You Will Do

• Review all requisitions and product or service demands for completeness, description, appropriate approval, delivery date and account numbers
• Solicit quotations and ensure appropriate credit is received
• Direct and procure vendor technical and operating expertise as required to appropriate internal personnel
• Negotiate, place orders and enter into contracts for procurement as necessary for required materials and services to ensure timely delivery
• Negotiation competitive freight rates
• Develop sourcing strategies
• Contact supplier to follow-up on material and components, production progress and shipments
• Coordinate shipments and monitor delivery schedules and shipment
• Review and approve supplier invoices for material deliveries against purchase order requirements
• Review material receiving reports against shipping documents to verify all material has been received per purchase order

Who You Are

• You thrive on challenging yourself to grow and want to work with a team that will push you, trust you, and hold you accountable
• Intellectually curious, passionate about learning and being the best
• Sense of urgency, highly responsive and oriented towards action
• Can-do attitude, and respond in all situations with a positive and energized attitude
• Previous purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with custom order products; steel and outside vendor coordination an asset
• Responsiveness to requests for information, proven sense of urgency
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize, and effectively manage assignments
• Proven ability to establish and maintain business relationships
• Ability to think strategically with excellent quantitative skills

Anyone who can legally work in Canada can apply for this job. If you are not currently authorized to work in Canada, your application will not be considered.

We are committed to providing an accessible and inclusive hiring process. Accommodation due to accessibility are available on request for candidates taking part in the selection process.

The above summary is to be used as a guideline only and does not incorporate all functions of the job.

Job Category: Purchasing

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Woodstock