Title: Buyer

Location: Bellevue, WA 98004

Pay Rate: $25/hr to $26/hr

Duration: 12 months

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and manage relationships with our key suppliers and business partners to enable and support project execution.
• Review supplier designs and proposals to ensure that scope, pricing, and schedules support business needs.
• Support consistent work package sourcing processes consistent with sourcing policies.
• Facilitate suppliers’ understanding of global policies, equipment design standards, budget and cost targets, service and quality expectations.
• Drive suppliers’ continuous improvement and value engineering in support of program’s performance metrics: quality, delivery, capacity, cost and safety.
• Monitor suppliers’ supply chain, manufacturing, human capital with respect to overall program objectives.
• Administer change management program that ensures program delivered per supporting commercial agreement with focus on cost, quality, and schedule objectives.
• Develop alternate sourcing strategies to optimize costs and ensure continuity of supply.

Required Skills:

• Negotiating and program management
• Need to understand Compressor and Air piping but open background. They will be dealing with air piping contractors. So, these candidates need to be able to understand air piping jargon (Joints, T joints, valves etc)
• Supply chain negotiating experience
• Some program management experience