Engineering Purchaser
Milton Keynes

Monday-Friday Days

£33,000-£35,000

Benefits:-

31 Days Holiday, Discounted Company Shares Scheme
5% Matched Private Pension & Life Assurance
BUPA Private Healthcare
Staff Discounts, Subsidised Canteen, Car & Bike Schemes, Team/Family Events
Engineering Skills Matrix Training & Development Plans for all Engineers

Our client is a leading food manufacturing company, the site is part of a larger national organisation. Due to growth and further expansion within the engineering team, they are looking for an Engineering Purchaser for their busy maintenance spares/parts area.

Role & Responsibilities:

Be responsible for ensuring spare parts for maintenance and servicing are in stock & payments made
Purchase engineering equipment & parts to agreed spec, on time, in full and at the best cost
Identify areas where cost and waste can be reduced
Responsible for stores administration, financial reporting & admin
Process PO's in an accurate and timely manner to the finance teams
Develop strong working relationships with suppliers
Carry out stock take of the engineering stores
Work closely with the engineering stores manager to create better stock flow & control
Control spares costs and report on any higher costings or discontinued

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Have previous working experience as an engineering purchaser
Ideally have food manufacturing experience
Strong financial & purchasing skills
Beneficial if worked in an engineering maintenance function
Good IT skills, with strong Microsoft Excel experience
Approaches tasks with a can-do attitude with the ability to create solutions to problems
Worked closely with finance teams, looking at costings, raising PO's
Need to be a methodical character & good communicator
Able to learn new IT systems quickly
Good attention to detail
Ideally have experience of conducting engineering parts stock takes

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Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

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