Date Posted: Friday, June 24, 2011

Application Due Date: Friday, July 29, 2011

Business Unit/Function: Engineering

Job Number: 0226-11

Position Overview:

• Demonstrates continual effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality seamless customer service.

Job Duties

• Coordinate all MRO activities working directly with assigned business units to ensure timely and cost effective purchasing and receipt of necessary equipment and supplies to ensure continued operations.
• Obtains quotations from vendors to ensure favorable quality, price and delivery terms; prepares MRO purchase orders through a computerized system.
• Approving and controlling the release of blanket purchase order releases
• Researches new products and vendors; provides data to technical staff and assists them in purchasing decisions.
• Expedites orders to ensure timely delivery of purchases by verifying initial demands and analyzing backorder reports.
• Conducts research, evaluates findings and makes independent decisions on MRO procurement matters for goods and services
• Reviews orders for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with existing policies and procedures and ensures all purchasing procedures and guidelines are followed.
• expensing purchases to correct distrubution codes as per company guidelines
• Obtains appropriate MRO commodities in a timely manner and follow up on deliveries as required to maintain production support requirements
• Interprets and evaluates MRO Contract Provisions
• Interfaces with suppliers, team members and management to resolve discrepancies, answer questions and provide guidance.
• Communicate any supplier MRO order discrepancies and work to resolve with necessary parties; monitors usages along with the possibilities of warranty repairs
• Coordinates and monitors the return of damaged goods, arranging for replacements or credits, and documents all transactions.
• Organizes, updated, and retains MRO supplier and product information files and purchase order records to ensure compliance.
• Reviews and recommends updates to company instructions and material policies and procedures.
• Identify and alert management to any actual or potential issues tha twoud ladversely impace program finanacial performance.
• Initiate actions to prevent the occurance of any nonconformance relating to product, process and systems.
•  Initiate, recommend or provide solutions through appropriate channels and verify implementation
• Trains/monitors Planner/Buyers.
• Monitors and reports on measures of performance for MRO
• Interacts with Logistics to ensure maximization of freight savings and to communicate priority shipments of incoming materials.
• Responsible for observing all applicable safety requirements and reporting immediately any unsafe practices/conditions.
• Carries out other projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Strong planning, organizational, analytical, negotiation, interpersonal, decision making, oral and written communication skills.
• Self disciplined to perform many assorted and time-sensitive assignments while bringing them to conclustion effectively
• Thorough knowledge of PC's in the current company operating system environment.
• Thorough knowledge of inventory control, purchasing and production management computer systems.
• University bachelor degree in business administration; or equivalent.
• 75% completion of an appropriate certification program (PMAC, APICS, CPM or CMA).
• Experience in an inventory or manufacturing environment.

Inquire

Please send us a copy of your resume, along with a cover letter stating the position you are interested in. StandardAero is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Email: Careers.Canada@Standardaero.com