Materials Buyer
Baker HughesAbout the role
Materials Buyer
Do you enjoy being part of a team that ensures the highest quality?
Do you enjoying being part of a successful team?
Join our Bently Nevada Materials team
Baker Hughes Bently Nevada and Nexus Controls offers a plant-wide, holistic suite of control system and machine condition monitoring and protection hardware, software, and services that help achieve the highest level of asset reliability possible. Our Team supports the supply chain management.
Partner with the best
You will oversee the effective purchasing of defined work, accurate status reporting, control and expedite in a professional manner in accordance with Strategy. You must have the skills, knowledge, and experience to be able to manage material purchasing needs and multiple suppliers; plus, familiarity with engineering bills of material, documents, control drawings and QA requirements to meet customer needs.
As a Materials Buyer, you will be responsible for:
- Interfacing with production/suppliers to schedule the receipt of raw material to meet production demand, and ensuring the timely execution of MRP signals minimizing/managing potential line downs
- Issuing purchase orders using sound purchasing practices ensuring applicable company and government regulations are followed
- Identifying and react to material plans that do not meet customer requirements with clear communication to materials leadership shaping resolution.
- Developing supplier relationships building supplier delivery and inventory metrics accurate to plan
- Monitoring implementation of corrective action plans
- Monitoring and control engineering change for cut-over plans, as well as support coordination of supply chain/engineering with the suppliers if necessary.
- Meeting the requirements of customer on-time delivery through tasks necessary to succeed
Fuel your passion
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have bachelor's degree OR a High school diploma/GED and at least 4 years of experience in a Manufacturing or Materials capacity
- Have the Knowledge/understanding of ERP systems and preferred SAP experience
- Have completed an APICS training course, preferred
- Have the ability to manage multiple tasks, establish effective work priorities, create improvement, have persuasive and resilient nature
- Demonstrate effective analytical and organizational skills
- Have noticeable oral, written communication, interpersonal and leadership skills.
Work in a way that works for you
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive
- This is a hybrid role with the need to be onsite at minimum once a week, sometimes more based on business need.
- We will not provide sponsorship or relocation for this position.
Working with us
Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.
Working for you
Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:
- Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
- Comprehensive private medical care options
- Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
- Tailored financial programs
- Education Assistance
- Generous Parental Leave
- Mental Health resources
- Dependent Care
- Additional elected or voluntary benefit
Candidates for this role (office-based/ hybrid/ remote) must be located in or near the locations displayed above. The pay range/scale displayed above represents Baker Hughes’ good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum for this position at the time of this posting and applies to the possible locations for th
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