Purchasing Assistant

Join a Growing Manufacturing Team Are you highly organized, detail-oriented, and looking to grow your career in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain operations? We are seeking a Purchasing Assistant to support a busy manufacturing purchasing team by managing purchase orders, coordinating with vendors, tracking deliveries, and ensuring accurate data within the ERP system. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in purchasing support, customer service, logistics, administration, or supply chain who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and wants to gain hands-on experience within a manufacturing organization. What You'll Be Doing Maintain and update purchase orders within the ERP system to ensure information remains accurate and up to date. Monitor open and past-due purchase orders to help support production schedules and material availability. Communicate regularly with vendors regarding order status, shipment timelines, and delivery expectations. Follow up on delayed shipments, shortages, and order discrepancies to ensure commitments are met. Track incoming deliveries and provide updates to internal teams across operations, production, and finance. Maintain purchasing records, documentation, and order data with a high level of accuracy. Support invoice reconciliation, reporting, and purchase order maintenance activities. Partner with cross-functional teams to help ensure materials are available to support manufacturing operations. Assist with backlog reduction and ongoing purchasing process improvements. What We're Looking For Experience working in an ERP system and maintaining purchasing, inventory, or order-related data. Previous experience supporting vendors, customers, suppliers, or logistics operations. Strong communication skills with the ability to professionally follow up and build vendor relationships. Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment. Excellent attention to detail, organization, and follow-through. Strong computer skills, including data entry and working within digital systems. Exposure to purchasing, procurement, order entry, supply chain, inventory, or vendor management processes. Preferred Qualifications Purchasing, procurement, or supply chain support experience. Manufacturing, production, operations, or distribution industry experience. Experience managing purchase orders, vendor communications, delivery tracking, or inventory-related activities. Acumatica ERP experience is a plus, but not required. Interest in building a long-term career in procurement, purchasing, or supply chain management. Why You'll Love This Opportunity Gain hands-on purchasing and procurement experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment. Work closely with operations, production, finance, and supply chain teams. Learn and develop skills in ERP systems, vendor management, purchasing operations, and manufacturing processes. Join a collaborative team where your work directly impacts production and business success. Strong opportunity for long-term growth within purchasing and supply chain functions. Job Type & Location This is a Contract position based out of Saint Michael, MN. Pay And Benefits The pay range for this position is $24.00 - $25.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D …

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