Purchasing Assistant

3 weeks ago


Preston, United Kingdom Midas Specialist Recruitment Ltd Full time

**Role**: Purchasing Administrator

**Location**: Preston with some hybrid if preferred

**Role Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: £25,000 per annum

**About the role**:A busy and fast paced role working for our client, a privately owned, highly successful and highly thought of construction business who are involved in the design and build across many sectors to include education, housing, extra-care and private residential, civil engineering and water. This is a new role which has been created due to a peak in workload. The role is working in the purchasing department who provide a procurement service to their construction site teams mainly across the North West.

Reporting to the Group Procurement Manager duties will include:

- Day-to-day administration of plant and material related transactions and activities working across several Group businesses
- Liaising with suppliers and site teams to deliver a managed procurement process for material purchases and plant hire
- Liaising with site and management teams and suppliers to determine plant and material requirements
- Generating and updating accurate Plant utilisation reports, placement of plant and material Purchase Orders on the Company ERP system
- Establishment and maintenance of relationships with suppliers to maximise the profitability of the business
- Provision of professional and service driven assistance ensuring that material and plant orders are expedited in a timely manner
- Processing of plant and material paperwork and actively supporting management and site teams
- Offering a personal and dedicated approach to plant solutions

**About the Company**:A highly successful and well-known construction business with exceptional company values and standards of development and construction. Projects span across several divisions to include education, commercial, retail, extra-care and high rise residential. Their success is driven by strong leadership and an ISO accredited organisational culture of continual improvement and clear communication.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- Do you have purchasing administration experience

**Experience**:

- Purchasing administration: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 17/06/2023



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