Buyer
- Employer
- Confidential
- Location
- London
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 20 May 2022
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- Specialist Area
- Buyer
- Sector
- Transport & Distribution
- Contract Type
- Contract / Interim / Temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
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Our client is seeking an experienced Buyer for its new Service Centre located at the London, Biggin Hill, United Kingdom.
In your role you will,
* Adhere to clients Maintenance Organization Procedures, among which the relevant parts of the MOE and applicable work instructions.
* Attend kick-off (pre-input) meetings and pro-actively prepare purchase orders and arrange slots with external vendors for the overhaul and repair of aircraft units and parts.
* Track materials, tools and ground support equipment for the purpose of recertification and maintenance schedules
* Ensure timely calibration of tools.
* Identify alternate and superseded part numbers.
* Identify and schedule critical paths and assign priorities. Determine priority items to ensure parts are delivered on time and are readily available.
* Coordinate repair and overhaul quotes and lead times.
* Place purchase orders and ensure that purchased parts, materials, consumables, standard tools, special tools, ground support equipment or services are conforming to specified purchase requirements.
* Take into account warranty and special programs, when obtaining parts, spares or services from the proper supplier.
* Ensure that parts/maintenance/overhauls are ordered only at suppliers/(sub)contractors on the ASL.
* Arrange and track shipments with forwarders, for AOG's as well as other shipments.
* Generate purchase order requests through the P/O system in SAP and to monitor timely delivery
* Track incoming AOG orders and report the status immediately to the Project Responsible and the Project Manager.
* Monitor timely deliveries and inform the Material Supervisor if orders are delayed ('constraints').
* Handle core and warranty issues and programs.
* In conjunction with the Material Handler monitor and re-order consumables suing min/max principles to ensure stock outages are minimized on high turnover items.
* Ensure the timely acquisition of parts, materials and tooling needed to service the customer aircraft by planning and forecasting requirements and coordinating acquisition with suppliers and stores personnel
* Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
As our ideal candidate,
* You a Bachelor's degree (or work level) in Purchasing or Inventory Management
* You have experience in aviation or material/parts environment
* You have basic knowledge of aircraft parts and terminology
* You are knowledgeable on, and practicing of, human factors, human performance and limitations
* You have knowledge of and experience with logistics processes
* You are knowledgeable on EWIS and CDCCL when relevant (e.g. tooling requirements)
* You have computer skills necessary to learn and/or operate word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, email, and web-based applications
* You have the planning and organizational skills necessary to prioritize and coordinate workload within a multiple project setting with rapidly changing priorities
* You have interpersonal skills necessary to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Planning Department and Maintenance Staff
* You have basic knowledge on applicable officially recognized European regulations, being EASA Part-145, PGS-15, ADR, IATA category 7/8
* Training 'Airfreight Security Employee' (if access to store)
* Training 'Road Transport/Awareness ADR' (Dangerous Goods)
In your role you will,
* Adhere to clients Maintenance Organization Procedures, among which the relevant parts of the MOE and applicable work instructions.
* Attend kick-off (pre-input) meetings and pro-actively prepare purchase orders and arrange slots with external vendors for the overhaul and repair of aircraft units and parts.
* Track materials, tools and ground support equipment for the purpose of recertification and maintenance schedules
* Ensure timely calibration of tools.
* Identify alternate and superseded part numbers.
* Identify and schedule critical paths and assign priorities. Determine priority items to ensure parts are delivered on time and are readily available.
* Coordinate repair and overhaul quotes and lead times.
* Place purchase orders and ensure that purchased parts, materials, consumables, standard tools, special tools, ground support equipment or services are conforming to specified purchase requirements.
* Take into account warranty and special programs, when obtaining parts, spares or services from the proper supplier.
* Ensure that parts/maintenance/overhauls are ordered only at suppliers/(sub)contractors on the ASL.
* Arrange and track shipments with forwarders, for AOG's as well as other shipments.
* Generate purchase order requests through the P/O system in SAP and to monitor timely delivery
* Track incoming AOG orders and report the status immediately to the Project Responsible and the Project Manager.
* Monitor timely deliveries and inform the Material Supervisor if orders are delayed ('constraints').
* Handle core and warranty issues and programs.
* In conjunction with the Material Handler monitor and re-order consumables suing min/max principles to ensure stock outages are minimized on high turnover items.
* Ensure the timely acquisition of parts, materials and tooling needed to service the customer aircraft by planning and forecasting requirements and coordinating acquisition with suppliers and stores personnel
* Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
As our ideal candidate,
* You a Bachelor's degree (or work level) in Purchasing or Inventory Management
* You have experience in aviation or material/parts environment
* You have basic knowledge of aircraft parts and terminology
* You are knowledgeable on, and practicing of, human factors, human performance and limitations
* You have knowledge of and experience with logistics processes
* You are knowledgeable on EWIS and CDCCL when relevant (e.g. tooling requirements)
* You have computer skills necessary to learn and/or operate word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, email, and web-based applications
* You have the planning and organizational skills necessary to prioritize and coordinate workload within a multiple project setting with rapidly changing priorities
* You have interpersonal skills necessary to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Planning Department and Maintenance Staff
* You have basic knowledge on applicable officially recognized European regulations, being EASA Part-145, PGS-15, ADR, IATA category 7/8
* Training 'Airfreight Security Employee' (if access to store)
* Training 'Road Transport/Awareness ADR' (Dangerous Goods)
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