Purchasing Assistant

Palm Harbor Homes; Shippenville (Clarion County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Palm Harbor Homes is seeking a Purchasing Assistant to coordinate procurement of goods and services for production needs. You will review requisitions, confer with vendors on price and delivery, and prepare purchase orders to ensure timely inventory availability.

Key responsibilities include maintaining records, verifying invoices, and expediting deliveries. The role requires attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment while upholding honesty and integrity in all

Qualifications

• At least three years of purchasing/costing experience.
• Strong attention to detail with accurate record-keeping.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while meeting deadlines.
• Demonstrate honesty and integrity in all procurement activities.

Responsibilities

• Review requisitions and confirm specifications.
• Coordinate with vendors for price, availability, and delivery schedules.
• Prepare purchase orders and bid requests.
• Maintain procurement records including costs, deliveries, and inventories.
• Verify invoices and approve for payment.
• Expedite deliveries and support daily production requirements.
• Assist with periodic plant inventory and cost analyses.

Skills

Attention to detail

Excellent communication

Fast-paced environment

Honesty and integrity

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About The Role

The Purchasing Assistant coordinates activities involved with procuring goods and services such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts and supplies, and purchases all inventory to meet production requirements by performing the following duties.

• Reviews requisitions.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
• Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
• Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
• Prepares invoices for payment.
• Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests.
• Counts inventory items to determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity.
• Prepares purchase orders and sends to supplier and department originating request.
• Computes total cost of items purchased.
• Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries.
• Verifies bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves bills for payment.
• Expedites delivery of goods to users.
• Meets production requirements on a daily basis while controlling inventory levels with various lead times.
• Assists heavily with periodic plant inventory.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Reviews requisitions.
• Confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
• Estimates values according to knowledge of market price.
• Prepares purchase orders or bid requests.
• Maintains procurement records such as items or services purchased, costs, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories.
• Prepares invoices for payment.
• Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests.
• Counts inventory items to determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity.
• Prepares purchase orders and sends to supplier and department originating request.
• Computes total cost of items purchased.
• Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries.
• Verifies bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approves bills for payment.
• Expedites delivery of goods to users.
• Meets production requirements on a daily basis while controlling inventory levels with various lead times.
• Assists heavily with periodic plant inventory.

Minimum Qualifications

• At least three years of work experience in purchasing and/or costing
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
• Demonstrate a good work ethic based on principles of honesty and integrity.
• Experience with Microsoft Office.