Keysight Technologies, Inc

Materials Buyer

Keysight Technologies, Inc • $60K — $101K *
Colorado Springs, CO 80918In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 3-5 years procurement or supply chain experience in manufacturing
  • Knowledge of purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and MRO processes
  • Experience procuring chemicals or regulated materials, with familiarity in EHS coordination
  • Ability to resolve daily issues across Operations, Finance, and Engineering
  • Aptitude for handling high volumes of time-sensitive tasks across multiple locations

Responsibilities

  • Execute day-to-day procurement and materials-availability activities for chemical procurement across two tech centers
  • Manage purchase requisitions and orders for production materials and tooling
  • Maintain Min/Max replenishment settings based on real-time demand
  • Procure specialty chemicals, ensuring supplier compliance and safety documentation
  • Handle domestic and international sourcing transactions, including urgent buys
  • Resolve issues with suppliers on availability, pricing, and logistics
  • Coordinate shipment tracking and expedite materials to meet production schedules
  • Investigate and resolve AP discrepancies to ensure smooth material receipt
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable specialized materials for production
  • Implement solutions for recurring supply interruptions
  • Maintain tracking logs for procurement status and open material issues
  • Provide status updates in review meetings and flag potential risks early

Benefits

  • Supportive team environment
  • Opportunities for professional development
  • Engagement with cross-functional teams
  • Dynamic work across two tech centers
  • Hands-on problem-solving experiences
  • Exposure to diverse supply chain challenges
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Executes day-to-day tactical procurement and materials-availability activities across two manufacturing tech centers, with dedicated responsibility for chemical procurement and related compliance coordination. This role owns the transactional and expediting workload that keeps production running: purchase orders, replenishment, supplier firefighting, and AP/invoice resolution, while serving as the front-line point of contact between planners, buyers, suppliers, and site operations. Success in this role is measured by material availability, on-time issue resolution, and smooth day-to-day execution rather than long-term sourcing strategy or contract negotiation.
  • Execute purchase requisitions and purchase orders for production materials, tooling, chemicals, packaging, and MRO items across two assigned tech centers
  • Own and maintain Min/Max replenishment settings for manufacturing consumables, adjusting to real-time demand and supply signals
  • Procure specialty and hazardous chemicals, coordinating supplier qualification, SDS/compliance documentation, and hazmat shipping requirements with EHS
  • Run day-to-day domestic and international sourcing transactions, including expedited or non-standard buys when standard lead times can't meet production needs
  • Work directly with suppliers to resolve same-day/same-week issues: availability, lead time, pricing discrepancies, quality holds, and shipping/logistics problems
  • Coordinate shipment tracking, special handling (including hazardous materials), and expediting to protect critical production schedules
  • Investigate and clear AP mismatches, invoice discrepancies, and credit holds that are blocking material receipt, escalating to Finance when needed
  • Partner with Engineering, EHS, Maintenance, and Operations to enable new or specialized materials (chemicals in particular) for production use
  • Apply basic root-cause problem-solving to recurring supply interruptions and implement fixes that hold
  • Juggle multiple open issues and stakeholders at once, keeping trackers current and driving each to closure
  • Maintain shared tracking tools/logs for part transfers, chemical procurement status, and open material issues
  • Give status updates in daily/weekly procurement and operations review meetings, flagging risks early
  • Act as the go-to tactical contact for planners, buyers, material coordinators, and manufacturing leadership at both tech centers

Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • 3-5 years of procurement or supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Working knowledge of purchase requisitions, purchase orders, MRO processes, and direct supplier coordination
  • Experience procuring chemicals or other regulated materials, including basic familiarity with SDS and EHS coordination
  • Ability to independently resolve day-to-day issues across Operations, Finance, and Engineering
  • Comfortable managing a high volume of concurrent, time-sensitive tasks across two locations

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting precision machining, plating, hermetics, or advanced electronics manufacturing
  • Familiarity with international shipping/logistics and customs basics
  • Experience resolving AP holds or invoice-matching issues with Finance
  • Advanced Excel skills for tracking and reporting across multiple sites
  • Experience in low-volume, high-mix or NPI manufacturing environments
  • Exposure to Lean, Six Sigma, or A3 problem-solving methods


Visa sponsorship is NOT available for this position.

Colorado Springs, CO Pay Range: MIN $60,00.00 - MAX $101,000.00

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About Keysight Technologies, Inc

Keysight Technologies, Inc. is a leading technology company that helps its engineering, enterprise and service provider customers optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost. Keysight's solutions go where the electronic signal goes, from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets.
Learn more about Keysight Technologies, Inc
Size
14,500 employees
Market Cap
$30.3 billion
Industry
Information Technology
Net Income
$636 million
Founded
1939
5 Year Trend
+11.2%
Revenue
$4.3 billion
NASDAQ
KEYS
* Ladders Estimates

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