Senior Buyer

Employment Type: Full-Time Work Environment: In-Person Reports To: General Manager Location: Orange, NJ Senior Buyer Position Summary The Senior Buyer is responsible for supporting day-to-day procurement, supplier coordination, purchasing transactions, and material availability for T&E Industries, Inc. The role partners with Operations, production planning, Engineering, Quality, Finance, receiving, and customer-facing personnel to help ensure materials, components, supplies, and services are procured accurately, timely, cost-effectively, and in accordance with applicable requirements. The Senior Buyer exercises sound judgment in supplier communication, purchasing decisions within assigned authority, purchase-order follow-up, and issue resolution. The role supports manufacturing schedules, inventory objectives, customer commitments, and operational continuity, including the transfer and standardization of purchasing activities currently concentrated within site leadership. Essential Job Functions Review approved purchase requisitions, material requirements, production schedules, inventory positions, and demand information to identify and prioritize procurement needs for manufacturing operations. Prepare, enter, review, issue, and manage purchase orders in accordance with established purchasing procedures, delegated approval limits, supplier terms, and business requirements. Communicate regularly with suppliers regarding quotations, pricing, product specifications, availability, lead times, order acknowledgments, shipment status, expediting, shortages, and delivery commitments. Obtain and evaluate supplier quotations and support sourcing recommendations based on total cost, quality, delivery, responsiveness, technical requirements, and applicable approved-supplier criteria. Maintain active oversight of open purchase orders; identify and escalate late deliveries, supply constraints, pricing discrepancies, and risks that could affect production schedules or customer commitments. Coordinate with Operations and production planning to understand near-term priorities, material shortages, order changes, and required delivery dates; support timely purchasing responses without independently assuming ownership of the master production schedule. Maintain accurate purchasing, supplier, material, order-status, and related transaction records within Global Shop and other applicable ERP/MRP or business systems, consistent with assigned access and approval authority. Work with receiving, Quality, and Finance to help resolve discrepancies involving quantities, specifications, supplier documentation, receipt of goods, invoices, and purchase-order records. Support inventory control through material availability reviews, follow-up on shortages, cycle-count or inventory discrepancy resolution, and identification of excess or obsolete purchasing exposure. Provide supplier cost, availability, and lead-time information to Engineering, Sales, and site leadership in support of product costing and customer quotation processes, with customer pricing and commercial approval retained by designated personnel. Support supplier performance tracking and corrective follow-up related to on-time delivery, quality issues, service responsiveness, and recurring supply disruptions. Identify opportunities to improve supplier terms, purchasing efficiency, cost controls, documentation, and continuity of material supply; participate in related continuous-improvement efforts. Maintain purchasing documentation and records in accordance with applicable company policies, ethical standards, customer and contractual requirements, and export-control or other regulatory obligations when applicable. Assist in documenting standardized purchasing workflows, recurring supplier requirements, and critical purchasing knowledge to support reliable coverage, cross-training, and business continuity. Additional Duties Employees may be required to perform other related duties as assigned to m…

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