Buyer

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The Buyer is responsible for ensuring the continuity of the supply of goods for specific product lines, while driving continuous cost and process improvements.

Key position functions include:

• Purchasing and expediting of items for stock and customer orders in compliance with Purchasing and QA policies and procedures.
• Identify supply shortfalls and communicate these gaps along with a contingency plan to managers and internal customers.
• Determine inventory levels, reordering points, min/max values and safety stock levels to satisfy demand based on production, demand, market trends, stock turns, shelf-life constraints and on time delivery.
• Provide purchasing plan and control information by collecting and analyzing data and trends.
• Provide Quotations to Sales/Estimating as required.
• Negotiate pricing and volume discounts with suppliers for stock and projects.
• Investigate part substitutions (including material at Branches or Reman) to present to Engineering or Sales in order to optimize inventory and minimize or reduce delivery time.
• Responsible for handling aging inventory, including coordinating with vendors to return inventory for credit, suggesting substitutions to Engineering and Sales or suggest to scrap obsolete material.
• Resolve supply chain issues including commercial competitiveness, on time delivery, NCR issues and supplier concerns.
• Maintain current knowledge with respect to practices, trends, and information relative to supply chain management, the oil and gas industry and the Company.
• Adhere to the Stream-Flo Guiding Principles
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required.

Preferred candidates will possess a combination of the following:

• 5+ years' experience in a purchasing role.
• Analytical, results-oriented, and productive in a fast-paced environment as this person will be responsible for making tactical and strategic decisions to ensure customer satisfaction while bettering our inventory performance.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize and multi-task in a busy environment.
• Willing to stand alone when feeling strongly about a particular action or improvement that must be made.
• Enrollment in PMAC is considered an asset.
• Previous experience in supporting a manufacturing environment, including working knowledge of 6A Wellhead and Gate Valve equipment including material specifications.
• Strong Excel, Outlook and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) skills.
• Previous SAP MM module experience an asset.
• The ability to work effectively individually and in a team environment.
• Superior time management and organizational skills.

The Stream-Flo Group of Companies, consisting of Stream-Flo Industries Ltd. and Master Flo Valve Inc., are privately owned and operated Canadian manufacturers of wellhead, production gate valve and check valve equipment, as well as chokes, specialty control valves and supporting actuation. Since our inception in 1962, we have become a recognized leader for our superior technology, innovative designs and top quality products. Through continued product line development, the Stream-Flo Group has grown to be one of the largest manufacturers of our kind, offering our solutions to oil and gas regions throughout the world.

Stream-Flo offers a competitive salary, profit sharing and a comprehensive benefit program to prospective employees, as well as the opportunity to work in an entrepreneurial environment, characterized by continued growth and strong business results.

We thank all applicants for their interest. However only those candidates identified for further consideration will be contacted.