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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
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* Identify alternate and superseded part numbers.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)

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