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Yakima, Wa, Us

Yakima, Washington, United States

Yakima County, Washington, United States

•Manage all facility remodeling, maintenance, and repair projects at their six branches throughout Central Washington including working with contractors and subcontractors.•Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the experience of members and employees.•Ensure the optimal functioning of all building systems including mechanical, electrical, and fire.•Manage their vendor management program using Venminder software.•Work with executive team to understand and plan long-term organizational growth plans.•Assess the need for expansions, and develop a facility plan accordingly.•Respond daily to facility ticket program for repair & maintenance at all branches.•Purchase maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) items.•Work daily with alarm and Security company.•Manage keys and alarm codes for all employees.•Approve invoices using AvidXchange AP software.

Yakima, Washington

•Responsible for purchasing and coordinating services for outside processing of all complex aerospace parts manufactured at our site.•Reduced cost, tracked and reported to Senior Management over $2,000,000 cost savings in the last 4 years.•Exceptional knowledge of purchasing practices and procedures including Contracts, DFAR, Drawings, Expedites, First Article (FAI), Inventory, MRO, MRP/ERP, NPI, PIA, RMA, SPIP & Specifications.•Supported production operations by purchasing assigned commodities, parts, raw material, and forgings.•Work on supplier long-term agreement (LTA) contracts and Proprietary Information Agreements (PIA).•Ability to read and interpret aerospace drawings, and blueprints.•Select vendors, request bids and quotations by sending out RFQ/RFP packages and evaluate vendor proposals to achieve the lowest possible price.•Monitor supplier quality and on time delivery performance and place them on process improvement plans.•Ability to respond quickly to shifting purchasing priorities, demands and timelines.•Reduction of supplier overall average lead-times through successful vendor management.•Negotiate with suppliers on pricing and to accomplish on-time shipment of parts and materials to meet project schedule requirements.•Lead supplier annual performance reviews (APR).•Send parts out for repair for our FAA Part 145 Repair Station and follow up on their progress.•Able to work under pressure and time constraints to perform the daily requirements of the position.•Interface daily with suppliers, production, shipping, manufacturing, MRB, design and quality engineers.•Develop & maintain effective and strong working relationships with management, co-workers and suppliers.

Yakima, Washington Area

•Managed all procurement activities including capital expenditure projects for the agency at their 25 sites throughout Central WA.•Purchased all maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) items for all departments and locations.•Set up the Procurement Department and requisition process.•Managed and oversaw all contracts and negotiations for the agency.•Wrote purchasing policies and procedures to assure compliance with Federal FAR requirements.•Prepared bid specifications and requirements and sent out RFQ/RFP packages followed by price and cost analysis to select the best overall vendor meeting all Federal and State of Washington requirements.•Joined the State of Washington Purchasing Cooperative and utilized state contracts to procure supplies and equipment resulting in significant savings to the agency.•Setup local and national GPO contracts to realize savings and efficiency on each purchase.•Tracked all assets for the agency including managing the surplus equipment warehouse.•Responsible for managing, supervising and evaluating a staff who reported directly to me.•Reduced waste and organized the Supply Chain process resulting in significant savings to the agency.•Member of the Executive Management Team.•Managed all facility maintenance and repair projects including working with contractors and subcontractors.•Ensured all contractors complied with bonds, insurance and prevailing wage requirements.•Oversaw and Managed the IT & Transportation Department including all school buses and staff.

Yakima, Washington

• Purchased complex custom machined aerospace parts for commercial and military programs.• Solicited RFQ’s and evaluated vendor proposals to obtain the lowest possible price.• Entered and released electronic purchase orders using Chess MRP/ERP software.• Monitored suppliers progress on parts making sure they were delivered on time.• Coordinated drawing revisions and engineering change notices with vendors.• Interfaced with suppliers to resolve issues and established product delivery criteria.• Maintained effective strong working relationships with management, co-workers and vendors.• Utilized MS Excel spreadsheets daily for tracking and reporting of purchased parts.