Purchasing Manager Aerospace

Blue Aerospace is a Global Supply Chain Provider, and an industry leader in the provisioning of a wide range of innovative services and support concepts to military end users and their maintenance partners worldwide.

We are looking for a Purchasing Manager to join our Tamarac office. Job duties for the position require:

• Process all purchase orders to vendors.
• Contract review to ensure all terms and conditions are flowed down to vendor.
• Ensure all customer requirements are communicated to suppliers via our purchase orders.
• Assisting export compliance process with ITAR category determination (with manufacturers).
• Qualifying new suppliers and completing supplier surveys.
• Monitoring existing suppliers to ensure their certifications are up to date.
• Updating open orders and providing customers with latest status via company portal.
• Weekly meetings with preferred manufacturers and customers.
• Communicate and track purchase order issues to be resolved by the sales department with the customer (expedited delivery, variance to supplier quoted quantities, alternate PN, certification / traceability, etc).
• Obtain pricing, discounts and determine availability from vendors for items identified by management to purchase for stock or for routine customer requests.
• Coordinate with vendor and logistics team on routine and urgent deliveries.
• Special project work as need by management.

Skills required are:

• Three years minimum of Management experience
• Previous experience in an aerospace environment required
• Knowledge of Quantum database or similar ERP is a plus
• Very strong verbal and written communications skills
• Must be able to multi-task.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Must have problem solving skills, be self-motivated and organized.
• Attention to detail is crucial