Senior Buyer

Precipart, located in Farmingdale, NY, is seeking a Senior Buyer to join our Procurement team. As a Senior Buyer, you will be responsible for the timely and cost-effective procurement of direct materials (Bill of Materials – BOM) and indirect materials (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations – MRO) in support of manufacturing operations. This role ensures material availability, inventory optimization, and supplier reliability within Precipart’s quality and compliance standards along with tracking and reporting of these activities.

The ideal candidate has strong attention to detail, excels at cross‑functional communication, tracker management, and thrives in a high‑mix precision manufacturing environment. Is relentless, resourceful, and resilient in the pursuit of maintaining service levels to assure manufacturing throughput and satisfaction of customer needs.

• Execute purchase orders for components, raw materials, subassemblies, tooling, and MRO items based on MRP signals, Kanban, or manual requisitions.
• Monitor and maintain optimal inventory levels aligned with production demand and working capital goals.
• Maintain vendor relationships and performance scorecards; proactively resolve delivery or quality issues.
• Generate internal reports to follow up on open orders, confirm ship dates, and expedite critical materials as needed.
• Work closely with Engineering, Planning, and Production to support design changes, new product launches, and alternate sourcing.
• Maintain clean and accurate ERP records including lead times, order confirmations, delivery dates, and pricing.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate spend, reduce cost, and streamline part sourcing.
• Support MRO purchasing for shop consumables, safety equipment, maintenance parts, and services.
• Manage procurement of value‑added subcontracted services (e.g., heat treating, plating, coating, specialty machining) that require WIP to exit and re‑enter the facility mid‑process.
• Coordinate logistics, traceability, and lead time buffers for externally processed materials to ensure seamless reintegration into the production schedule.
• Ensure that supplier processing windows align with takt time requirements and that all handling, labeling, and routing instructions are fully documented and traceable in ERP.
• Monitor service vendor performance on WIP turnaround time, quality, and adherence to specifications; initiate corrective actions when variances affect downstream operations.
• Work closely with Quality and Production Control to verify that incoming post‑processing material meets inspection requirements and is released for continuation of the manufacturing process.
• Ensure chain of custody is maintained throughout all external processing events to preserve lot integrity and regulatory compliance (e.g., ISO 13485, AS9100).
• Ensure all purchases comply with Precipart’s quality system, ISO 13485 standards, and internal control procedures.
• Uphold the foremost integrity and separation of interests in supplier and vendor transactions in accordance with Foreign Corruption Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Anti‑Bribery Act principles.
• Evolve tools and business processes along with the significant growth the business will experience.
• Responsible for conforming with the company’s quality management system requirements, as well as contributing to its overall effectiveness, and the ultimate goals of customer satisfaction, product compliance and ethical practices/behavior.

• Partner with Planning and Manufacturing to align material delivery with production schedules.
• Work with Quality and Engineering on vendor qualifications and first article inspection requirements.
• Coordinate with Receiving and Accounts Payable to resolve discrepancies on PO confirmations, shipments, or invoices.
• Support supplier evaluations and periodic business reviews.

• This job description is not designed to be a comprehensive listing of similar activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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