Purchasing Manager

Drylock Technologies LTD; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Sponsorship not offered

Stable full-time leadership role

Team-focused safety culture

Job summary

Drylock Technologies in Eau Claire, WI, seeks a hands-on Purchasing Manager to support >$100M in corporately sourced raw materials, lead local purchasing, and stabilize the MRO parts room for maintenance and production.

This true player‑coach role partners with corporate sourcing, drives supplier follow‑through, and improves inventory accuracy and service levels. Relocation assistance is available; sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• Has led purchasing, materials, supply chain, MRO, storeroom, or plant materials functions in manufacturing.
• Understands how purchasing execution, supplier responsiveness, raw material support, and order follow-through impact production performance.
• Can partner effectively with corporate sourcing while keeping local plant needs visible and moving forward.
• Knows how to create order in a busy parts room where availability, accuracy, labeling, storage discipline, and responsiveness all need to improve without losing urgency or customer service.
• Can lead people while staying close enough to the work to remove barriers and improve daily execution.

Responsibilities

• Leadership of the purchasing team supporting corporately sourced raw materials and related purchasing activity.
• Local purchasing execution, including purchase orders, supplier follow-up, delivery tracking, expediting, issue resolution, and internal customer support.
• Partnership with corporate sourcing to align plant needs, raw material requirements, supplier communication, and purchasing priorities.
• MRO parts room leadership, including improving organization, accountability, service expectations, transaction discipline, labeling, storage practices, follow-through, and day‑to‑day issue resolution.
• MRO inventory strategy, including addressing excess, obsolete, hard‑to‑find, duplicated, or poorly classified parts while strengthening critical spares, min/max levels, cycle counts, replenishment discipline, and inventory accuracy.
• Parts availability and responsiveness to maintenance work orders, urgent repairs, planned shutdowns, and production support needs.
• Daily leadership of buyers and parts room team members with clear expectations, coaching, communication, and accountability.

Skills

Leadership

Purchasing

MRO

Inventory management

Cross-functional coordination

Job description

Job Description

Are you a hands‑on purchasing, materials, MRO, or parts room leader who can balance strategic supplier support, purchasing execution, inventory discipline, and plant service needs in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment?

Drylock Technologies in Eau Claire, WI is looking for a Purchasing Manager to support purchasing activity tied to more than $100 million in corporately sourced raw materials, while also leading local purchasing follow-through, MRO inventory performance, parts room organization, and maintenance service levels.

This is a true player‑coach leadership role—ideal for someone who can partner with corporate sourcing, lead a purchasing team, improve supplier and order follow-through, stabilize the parts room, and stay close enough to the work to remove barriers for maintenance, production, and operations.

Relocation assistance available for the right candidate. This role does not support sponsorship.

Why This Role Matters

This role sits at the intersection of purchasing, materials support, and plant execution. The position supports purchasing activity connected to more than $100 million in corporately sourced raw materials through the purchasing team, while also taking on a meaningful MRO and parts room improvement challenge. The successful leader will help bring more structure, accuracy, ownership, and service discipline to a busy parts room environment that directly impacts maintenance readiness, downtime response, and production support.

• Support the purchasing team responsible for corporately sourced raw materials
• Partner with corporate sourcing, suppliers, operations, maintenance, and production to keep materials, parts, and services moving
• Improve purchasing follow-through, order discipline, delivery visibility, supplier responsiveness, and escalation processes
• Stabilize and improve the MRO parts room as a key operational priority, including creating better organization, clearer ownership, stronger inventory discipline, and more reliable support for maintenance and production
• Strengthen parts availability, inventory accuracy, storage organization, and service expectations for maintenance and production support

What You’ll Own

• Leadership of the purchasing team supporting corporately sourced raw materials and related purchasing activity
• Local purchasing execution, including purchase orders, supplier follow-up, delivery tracking, expediting, issue resolution, and internal customer support
• Partnership with corporate sourcing to align plant needs, raw material requirements, supplier communication, and purchasing priorities
• MRO parts room leadership, including improving organization, accountability, service expectations, transaction discipline, labeling, storage practices, follow-through, and day‑to‑day issue resolution
• MRO inventory strategy, including addressing excess, obsolete, hard‑to‑find, duplicated, or poorly classified parts while strengthening critical spares, min/max levels, cycle counts, replenishment discipline, and inventory accuracy
• Parts availability and responsiveness to maintenance work orders, urgent repairs, planned shutdowns, and production support needs
• Daily leadership of buyers and parts room team members with clear expectations, coaching, communication, and accountability

This Role May Be a Strong Fit If You

• Have led purchasing, materials, supply chain, MRO, storeroom, maintenance inventory, or plant materials functions in manufacturing
• Understand how purchasing execution, supplier responsiveness, raw material support, and order follow‑through impact production performance
• Can partner effectively with corporate sourcing while keeping local plant needs visible and moving forward
• Know how to create order in a busy parts room where availability, accuracy, labeling, storage discipline, and responsiveness all need to improve without losing urgency or customer service
• Can lead people while staying close enough to the work to remove barriers and improve daily execution
• Communicate well with purchasing, maintenance, production, warehouse, suppliers, and corporate sourcing

What Drylock Offers

• A stable, full‑time leadership role in an essential manufacturing environment
• The opportunity to influence purchasing execution, supplier follow‑through, raw material support, inventory accuracy, and plant service levels
• A visible role supporting high‑value purchasing activity and day‑to‑day plant reliability
• A team‑focused culture built around safety, quality, continuous improvement, a