Buyer

nVenia, a member of the Duravant family of operating companies, is a manufacturer and supplier of integrated solutions and packaging equipment machinery. With over 300 years of combined experience, our long-standing brands of Arpac, Fischbein, Hamer and Ohlson serve end customers in the consumer-packaged goods, food and beverage, industrial, and other markets.

nVenia is committed to a culture that promotes long term career satisfaction and provides an opportunity for personal and professional growth. We succeed by operating within our core values of Integrity, Teamwork, Respect, Sense of Urgency and Winning Spirit.

At nVenia, we offer an excellent total rewards package that includes:

• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ health, well-being, and financial security.
• Work/life programs designed to provide a safe, secure, and balanced environment.
• Education and training programs to develop and grow a high-performance workforce.
• Performance-based rewards.

The Buyer 1 is responsible for purchasing material, parts, components, assemblies, and MRO utilized in Production and Aftermarket business. Responsibilities include quoting, placing orders, returns to suppliers, confirming orders, expediting delivery and communicating schedule changes to operations and sales.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Process orders including sending PO’s and confirmations.
• Follow up with suppliers.
• Confirm pricing.
• Expedite orders.
• Reconciling invoicing issues.
• Perform timely resolution of past due purchase orders to meet departmental goals.
• Assist with monitoring, tracking, and providing feedback on supplier’s performance, price, delivery, quality, and responsiveness.
• Quickly and efficiently process supplier quality returns.
• Ensure prompt communication of schedule changes throughout Operations, Sales and Lifecycle Services.
• Work with cross functional teams including shipping, stockroom, accounting, production, and planning.
• Communicate Bill of Material discrepancies to Engineering.
• Report inventory discrepancies to Warehouse Manager.
• Projects and other responsibilities as directed by manager.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Frequently required to sit, stand, walk, talk or hear; uses hands to finger, handle, or touch objects or controls. On occasion, may be required to climb and work in high places, stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The incumbent must occasionally lift, push, or pull up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
The position is an office-based position with visits to the manufacturing area. In the manufacturing area, employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and may occasionally be exposed to fumes and/or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but at times loud.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.