Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer

Dover Precision Components, part of Dover Corporation, is hiring a Senior Buyer for our Cook Compression brand, located at our Jeffersonville, Indiana ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facility. We deliver critical performance solutions for rotating and reciprocating machinery across several markets, including oil & gas. We offer competitive pay and benefits while being part of a stable and innovative company!

What You'll Do

• Assess key business needs by evaluating and executing MRP requirements and Kanban levels for commodities. Developes and executes a sourcing strategy to deliver optimal costs.
• Prepares and presents recommendations for improvement opportunities and alternative courses of action to supply chain / value stream leaders.
• Issues requests for quotations, analyzes and evaluates quotes, negotiates price, terms and conditions, and exercises independent judgement.
• Proactively identifies and takes appropriate corrective actions to prevent material shortages. Expedites materials as required and provides accurate material status information to other departments and site management.
• Objectively measures and communicates supplier performance to support supply chain continuous improvement efforts. Interfaces with Suppliers, Quality, Strategic Sourcing, and Engineering to quickly resolve quality, delivery or cost issues.
• Drives increased inventory turns, reduced cycle times, and improved Customer OTD by developing, implementing and managing pull-based material replenishment processes, including, but not limited to Kanban cards, vendor managed inventory and supplier consignments.
• Collaborates on efforts such as price benchmarking, vendor management, process analysis, market and industry research, contract negotiations, and model building.
• Inputs, maintains, and adjusts records or transactions to ensure system validity. Manages loading and retrieving legal and compliance documents into applicable storage systems.
• Works closely with the Value Stream, Commodity Management, Manufacturing, and Engineering teams to proactively identify, prioritize and complete resourcing and supplier development projects. Provides effective support to new product introduction teams, proposal development and subcontracting opportunities as they develop.
• Ensures quick resolution of shipping discrepancies, receiving errors, and invoice errors. Coordinates adjustments to ship dates or quantities on open purchase orders as necessary.
• Works to eliminate SLOB excess and obsolete parts and rationalize similar parts.
• Engenders a spirit of cooperation throughout the supply chain to ensure responsiveness to the customer.

What You'll Bring

Also Great If You Bring / Preferences

Dover Precision Components (DPC) is part of Dover Corporation's Pumps and Process solutions segment. DPC holds market leading positions globally and delivers performance-critical solutions across the oil & gas, power generation, marine, industrial, chemical and general processing markets. We design and manufacture mission-critical equipment components to deliver more affordable, cleaner energy solutions and enable manufacturers to operate more efficiently.

Dover Precision Components delivers products and services that enhance performance, improve safety, reduce carbon emissions, and accelerate clean energy adoption, through collaborative Customer relationships, expert engineering, and an innovative culture. Our strong Company portfolio is comprised of long products and services offered by Cook Compression, Cook Mechanical Field Services, Waukesha Bearings, Waukesha Magnetic Bearings, Inpro / Seal, Bearings Plus, and FW Murphy Production Controls. Our global footprint reaches more than twelve locations in the Americas and more than six locations in Europe and China.

We are diligent in recognizing our employees' needs and providing an enriching experience through professional developmental opportunities. Our authentic, collaborative company culture, combined with a competitive suite of health and welfare offerings, emulates who we are.