Buyer Aviation

Buyer (Aviation) Permanent - Westerham, Kent - £35,000-£44,000
Shorterm Group are currently working with an Aerospace client who are seeking an experienced Buyer. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a primary role in supporting business growth and cost management and provide strategic Procurement intelligence.

**Responsibilities**:
*Adhere to the companies Maintenance Procedures, among which the relevant parts of the MOE and applicable work instructions.
*Attend pre-input meetings and 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.
*Negotiating and executing robust supplier contractual frameworks
*Identify alternate and superseded part numbers.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.
*Work with the Material Handlers to 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 and experience
*You a Bachelor's degree (or qualified by experience) in Purchasing or Inventory Management
*Experience in aviation or material/parts environment
*You have basic knowledge of aircraft parts and terminology
*Knowledge of, human factors, human performance and limitations
*Knowledge of and experience with logistics processes
*Knowledgeable on EWIS and CDCCL when relevant (e.g. tooling requirements)
*You have the planning and organisational skills necessary to prioritise 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)