TECHNICAL ENGINEERING BUYER  

BN27, Hailsham, East Sussex

Salary/Rate: £30,000 – £45,000/annum Healthcare and Pension

Role Description

An experienced engineer to lead the company’s purchasing and costing requirements for large capital plant projects, ensuring all client orders / contracts are delivered on time and within agreed cost budgets.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The successful applicant will report to the Design Office Manager and will:

• Manage and lead the company’s Purchasing function, including Request for Quotations (RFQ’s) purchase order generation working with the existing Access database system and with any future ERP / MRP System.

• Work with the Design Office Manager to successfully deliver agreed SMART objectives.

• Negotiate and manage subcontract work requirements according to our Production / Project planning needs.

• Manage and lead Supply relations with existing, including expansion of Supplier base to support the company’s requirements.

• Manage and lead Supplier relations, investigate, develop, and negotiate with future new potential suppliers according to the needs of Sales and development opportunities.

• Communicate clearly and concisely, in writing and orally both internally and externally with suppliers and sub-contractors.

• Understand and interpret correctly complex technical engineering drawings and specifications of complex capital plant.

• Coordinate with the Sales and Finance teams over cost estimating by using technical experience, know-how and interfacing with future suppliers.

• Work closely with Design Engineers and Production Managers to coordinate and plan requirements according to project / contract deadlines.

• Apply significant manufacturing industrial technical knowledge within the areas of high-pressure gas, water cooling, induction heating, and vacuum engineering disciplines.

• Deliver projects according to agreed budget costs and lead times.

• Develop a coordinated approach to the areas of buying, scheduling, and cost management.

• Be able, by virtue of long engineering experience, to advise junior design engineers on practical material and component choices.

• Have a clear concise understanding and application of cost / design management process tools.

• Interface with buying administration staff

• Requirement to travel overseas as and when required.

Benefits Offered

• Working for a growing, privately owned, company with considerable innovative scientific content and with a professional team of engineers.

• Working in the exciting, rapidly developing engineering process equipment industry.

• Salary review – after 6 months according to results and achievements

• Company Pension, Private health insurance enrolment (after probationary period)

• Holidays 25 days + Bank holidays

• Potential to join the PSI Senior Management team.

• Opportunities to travel overseas (fully expensed)