Buyer

** Buyer**

**Job Category****:** Service & Warranty **Requisition Number****:** PURCH002908 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

Description

**Who is Cleaver-Brooks Sales and Service:**

Cleaver-Brooks Sales and Service, Inc. (CBSS) is a market leader in providing fully integrated boiler and burner systems. CBSS offers a full range of capabilities from: new equipment, installation, rentals, retrofits, repairs, parts, and service. We can deliver, install, and upgrade boiler room solutions that improve efficiency, reduce cost, and optimize space. CBSS delivers the most efficient, reliable, safe, and environmentally sustainable solutions that differentiate us in the marketplace.

**Job Summary ...**

The Buyer position is established to provide CBSS with a qualified representative to handle routine purchasing duties in support of service, parts, and projects. The position is responsible for procurement of specified commodities; vendor negotiations, and maintaining a schedule of deliveries for jobs across the nation.

**Essential Functions ...**

Evaluate suppliers by considering price, quality, availability, and other criteria on a national level

* Negotiate contracts with vendors and suppliers to obtain the best deals on behalf of the company

* Interact with suppliers to schedule delivery times and resolve shipping errors

* Maintain receipts, records and inventories

* Oversee logistics for deliveries to job sites across the US. International shipping on occasion

* Moderate blue print reading is a plus

* Material takeoffs from drawings is a plus

* Must be able to read a measuring tape

* Professional communication skills both written and verbal

* Basic math skills

* All other duties as assigned.

**Physical Skill and Effort ...**

* Record-keeping experience especially GP, IFS, online purchasing portals and Mircrosoft Suite.

* Willingness /ability to work overtime and weekends and emergency hours, as needed. (infrequent)

* Must be reliable and responsible; must have the ability to work independently with little direct supervision.

* Work involves fairly light and simple types of physical exertion.

**Working Conditions and Hazards ...**

Normal office and warehouse conditions. From time to time, slightly disagreeable features. Negligible/little or no exposure to hazardous conditions or materials

**Do You Qualify ...**

**Education:**

A High School diploma or equivalent is mandatory. BS/BA in materials and/or business school prefered

**Experience:**

Two years experience in a similar industrial/technical position is preferred. Computer competency including Outlook, Word, Excel, required with Great Plains background a plus. Basic understanding of HVAC industry terminology a plus. Industrial purchasing experience a plus.

**Benefits of Being a Cleaver-Brooks Employee **

We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, flexible spending account, wellness benefits, life insurance, short term and long term disability, cash matching 401(k) plan, generous vacation and 11 paid holidays.

*This description indicates the general nature of the tasks and responsibilities required of position given this classification. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities. Nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of management to assign, direct, and control the specific duties of individuals performing this function. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from any section of this document as it deems, in its judgment, to be proper. This description supersedes any previous descriptions for this position*.

**Skills**

**Preferred**

**Coordination** *Intermediate* **Time Management** *Intermediate* **Reading Comprehension** *Advanced* **Oral/Written Communication** *Advanced* **Dedicated****:** Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity **Education**

**Preferred**

High School or better.

**Experience**

**Preferred**

**2 years:** Buyer/Purchasing

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)