Purchasing Coordinator

Quality Packaging (Qual Pac) is looking for individuals who have a strong professional ethic are passionate about innovating for positive change and are collaborative team players. We have been in business for over 50 years. Our success is due to a culture created by our founder that embodies these principles : Our employees are our most important asset we stand by our word and our customers needs are our number one priority.

If you are looking for a career where you make a difference with over 1000 team players please read on.

The Purchasing Coordinator is responsible for purchasing materials for production at the 5 manufacturing locations. This position works closely with internal stakeholders and external customers to provide support and ensure seamless product supply to our sites. This position will maintain excellent working relationships with customers vendors and our sites. The Purchasing Coordinator will procure quality materials for our organization that will allow us to drive revenue and cost efficiencies based on projected forecast.

Pay : $25.00 / hr

Responsibilities and Essential Duties

• Maintains excellent working relationships with the internal operating and external sales groups
• Works with selected vendors to obtain product information such as price availability and delivery schedule
• Processes POs for materials purchases
• Uses demand forecasts to order materials for 5 Frito facilities.
• Adjust PO deliveries at sites based on demand changes.
• Actively manages deliveries to maximize inbound payloads and reduce cost.
• Schedules weekly meetings with site planners to align on goals and improve performance.
• Maintains vendor capabilities and specifications library. This will include material specifications materials capability by type and gauge certification log printing capability by process and quantity requirements and maintain master price list and expiration dates
• Maintains vendor contact data base
• Communicates with vendors and carriers on deliveries and provides information to the sites to ensure optimum production scheduling.
• Maintains supplier pricing
• Provide applicable reports on purchases returns credits inventories upon request.
• Maintains inventory stock levels across all locations to maintain inventory targets
• Provides requested information to the customer (Frito) upon request.

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About Pro Pac and Qual Pac

Founded in 1971 Professional Packaging Systems (Pro Pac) brings deep knowledge and expertise to provide the best packaging solutions for our customers. We serve every industry including e-commerce retail and wholesale food snack beverage specialty manufacturing fresh produce hobby and craft automotive electronics pet cosmetic industries and many more.

We are headquartered in Grand Prairie Texas with regional sales branches in El Paso and Brownsville TX; and additional contract packaging / fulfillment operations in Brookshire TX; Charlotte NC; and Olathe KS.

Come join a growing group of honest knowledgeable and skilled professionals who are dedicated to offering superior products and services to those we serve!

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Key Skills

Order Management System,Microsoft Office,Inventory Control,Microsoft Access,Purchasing,Procurement,Microsoft Outlook,Microsoft Word,Supply Chain Experience,Microsoft Excel,ERP Systems,negotiation

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1