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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.

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.

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.

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.