Purpose of Role
Manage the purchasing activities for prototype and production projects, playing a vital role in ensuring project requirements are met through sourcing, negotiating, and procuring material critical to our innovative designs.
Key Responsibilities:
• Manage purchasing activities on customer projects ensuring critical timings are understood and met.
• Request and analyse supplier quotations, raising purchase orders with the best value suppliers.
• Communicate with suppliers and wider project team on lead times, pricing, and delivery dates.
• Negotiate pricing and lead times with suppliers.
• Build and maintain good relationships with suppliers.
• Manage and maintain adequate stock levels.
• Ensure that all materials are ordered and managed via the SAGE 200 MRP system.
• Assist the Procurement Lead in developing new and existing component and tooling suppliers.
• Support the Quality Manager in supplier audits for prototype parts and tooling.
• Ensure that annual contracts are controlled, and that sufficient timing is generated to allow for the appropriate levels of negotiation.
• Facilitate technical calls and discussion with suppliers and engineering ensuring part feasibility is understood and agreed.
Key Requirements:
• Maintain a high standard of Health and Safety based upon safe working practices and support environmental initiatives.
• Minimum 3 years purchasing experience.
• Strong organisational, planning and time management skills.
• Previous experience working in an engineering / manufacturing environment advantageous.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under frequent changing priorities.
• Excellent communication and negotiating skills.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Be able to listen and communicate with key stakeholders.
• Competent in communicating technical requirements to the supply base whilst in-turn issuing succinct feedback to the programme team.
• CIPS accreditation is desirable but not mandatory.
• Computer literacy including Word and Excel; Sage 200 experience would be desirable.
• Valid UK Driving Licence and Passport - Willing and able to travel globally.
Benefits:
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Excellent Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme (Employee Contribution up to 11%/ Employer contribution up to 15%)
• Life Insurance (6 times annual salary)
• Access to pool cars for travel
• Company laptop/ phone
• Free Parking
• Flexible Working Policy
• Homeworking Policy
• Employee Events
• Recognition Awards
• Training and Development (Internal & External)
• Share Save Schemes
• Salary Sacrifice Scheme- Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme/ Financial Assistance Schemes
• Well-being Initiatives
Introduction to Senior PLC Group
Senior PLC is a listed FTSE 250 international, market leading, engineering solutions provider with 30 operations in 13 countries. Senior designs, manufactures, and markets high technology components and systems for the principal original equipment producers in the worldwide aerospace, defence, land vehicle and energy markets.
The Group’s strategy is to focus upon sectors where it is positioned to benefit from both global market growth and increasingly stringent emission control legislation. We operate through two divisions:
Aerospace Division
Senior serves both the commercial aerospace and defence markets with a range of products and systems for fluid conveyance, gas turbine engines and structures.
Flexonics Division
For over 100 years, Senior Flexonics has developed innovative metal bellows sub-assemblies, tubing and thermal management solutions to meet and/or exceed our customers’ needs and requirements.
By applying these competencies to our customer’s challenges, Senior Flexonics has evolved into a multi-industry corporation spanning the globe.
Senior Flexonics Crumlin
The Crumlin UK Sales & Engineering Centre offers unparalleled product design, development, testing and manufacturing capabilities. It is the primary European Sales, Design and Development centre for heat exchange, engine tubing & exhaust flexible products.
Using our dedicated business teams, we focus on serving our customers with the latest technologies and provide unique & diverse Engineering solutions for the 3 product groups mentioned. We are experts in designing, developing, and manufacturing solutions for combustion, hybrid, and electric drivetrains. We also provide high performance, efficient heat exchangers for fuel cell energy applications.
We are an ISO 9001 certified company and offer a fully engineered solution, from design concept through to high volume manufacture, and work with many of the leading global OEMs to supply a range of world class products from our global network of companies.
We scrutinise every part of our customers’ requirements which enables us to provide a truly bespoke solution that delivers real value. Our products are designed using the latest predictive techniques such as FEA and CFD and validated through extreme testing in our test and development department to ensure excellent performance, durability, and lifelong functionality.
Fully engineered customer solutions for
Land Vehicles - On & off highway
Fuel Cell and CHP applications
Power Generation – APU
Exhaust Heat Recovery - Truck, Automotive & Power Generation.
Our technologies Span
Electric
Combined with clean, renewable energy sources, the rapid growth in electric vehicles could soon make emission-free mobility a reality. We are using our wealth of knowledge to implement creative solutions which enable our customers to maximise battery life and develop highly efficient range extender technologies.
Battery Thermal Management Range Extender Recuperators
Fuel Cell Heat Exchangers Fluid Transfer Tubes
Combustion
Our core focus for combustion engines is to improve fuel efficiency and reduce harmful emissions. Increasingly strict regulation requires innovative engineering, and we combine decades of manufacturing expertise with the latest technologies.
Gasoline / Diesel EGR Waste Heat Recovery
Fluid Transfer & EGR Tubes Flexible Connectors & Turbo Dampeners
Hybrid
Global demand for mild, full, or plug-in technology is on the rise, driving requirement for multiple drive architectures. Our expertise in a vast array of heat exchanger applications enables us the flexibility to develop efficient, market leading propulsion technologies
Battery Thermal Management Waste Heat Recovery
EGR Coolers Fuel Cell Heat Exchangers
Flexible Connectors & Turbo Dampeners Fluid Transfer & EGR Tubes
Energy
As the need for clean and efficient energy sources becomes greater than ever before. We are working with some of the world’s leading companies to develop clean, local sources of energy generation which dramatically increase efficiency and energy security.
High Efficiency Gas-Gas HEX Fuel Cell Heat Exchangers
Fluid Transfer Tubes Flexible Connectors
For more information on the company’s activities, please visit http://www.seniorflexonics.co.uk/