Central Offices - Purchasing Coordinator

Bachoco USA produces the highest quality chicken products for the U.S. market. Currently, the Bachoco USA family includes more than 4,000 team members who are dedicated to consistently producing high-quality chicken products and nourishing people around the world.

 

 

Bachoco USA is seeking a Purchasing Coordinator for our Fort Smith, AR location.

 

Summary: The Coordinator assists the Materials Planner and departmental management by maintaining existing purchasing systems and facilitating the development of new purchasing and inventory control systems. Specific functions include maintaining accurate requisition, purchasing, receiving and inventory control records. Activities are targeted at standardization consistent with high quality, reliability, and plant and regulatory requirements.                                        

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Reviews requisitions for accuracy and completion.
• Issues purchase orders for appropriate products and services.
• Communicates and informs Materials Planners and other team members on the status of all products and services in the supply chain for relevant departments.
• Receives and releases purchase orders to accounts payable department.
• Places orders and maintains communication with various vendors to ensure the delivery of products and services.
• Coordinates ordering and delivering of all products and services among relevant Bachoco USA departments.
• Assists in the maintenance of accurate physical inventories on all products and services.
• Maintains accurate reports for costs and inventory value for all products and services for all relevant departments.
• Performs other duties as assigned by management.

 

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

 

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

 

Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  Ability to write simple correspondence.  Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

 

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

 

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.  Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

 

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Inventory software; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.

 

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or f