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Port St. Lucie, Fl, Us

Vero Beach, Florida, Us

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

• Issue Purchase Orders (PO’s), while expediting any PO that needs to be pulled in to meet the production schedule.• Focused on safeguarding a secure supply chain during the year and well into the future.• Process return RMA’s and other related functions. • Train/Assist other Buyer/Planners within the global team. • Provide solutions to problems from moderate to high complexity. • Provide support to upper management in effort to meet corporate goals, objectives, and projects. • Maintain procurement records, such as items or services purchased, cost, delivery, product quality or performance, and inventories. • Maintain commodities, while seeking cost and lead time improvement to assist Commodity Mangers.• Worked with Commodity Mangers to resolve pricing, lead time, or other supply chain issues. • Establish and issue Request for Quote on any item that hasn’t been purchased in some time. • Maintain and strengthen supplier relationships, while creating more efficiencies. • Identify new source of supply, evaluate new suppliers, perform pre-assessment and assist with any follow-up activities required for supplier qualification.• SAP Subject Matter Expert for the sourcing team.

Achievements:• Implemented new request for quote system within SAP.• Improved vendor relationships.• Worked with SAP development team to perform major update.• Worked with engineers to redefine drawing families in cost reduction efforts.• Implement new procedures for sourcing team.• Reduced RFI’s from sourcing to engineering by 21%.Responsibilities:• Interfacing with material planning and other internal customers on strategic supply chain requirements.• Providing guidance and direction to internal customers on global supply chain operations.• Read and understand drawings to help vendors to overcome any questions, or issues that may arise during quoting or purchase order execution.• Expedite any order that requires the need to be expedited.• Obtain pricing and lead time for parts that are for planned or forced outages.• Manage purchase orders, purchase requisitions, request for quotes, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure on time delivery.• Maintain commodities, while seeking cost and lead time improvement for commodity groups.• Maintain effective communications between quality and the vendors to reduce SRON’s, QN’S, and CAR’s. • Negotiating pricing, terms, and conditions with current, and vendors for upcoming and ongoing projects.• SAP Subject Matter Expert for the sourcing team.• WindChill Subject Matter Expert for the sourcing team.

Achievements:• Reduced cost on all materials for all projects.• Improved vendor relationships.• Expanded the amount of vendors to obtain materials.• Maintaining a 99% on time delivery.• Implement new procedures for technical product purchases.Responsibilities:• Purchase all materials for upcoming and ongoing projects. • Reading and understanding drawings & blue prints and able to help engineers with issues on the drawings & blueprints.• Expedite any order that customers are asking to have expedited.• Experienced in a lean logistics manufacturing environment, with tight budget constraints to provide cost saving efforts within just in time materials.• Provide cost comparisons to determinate best pricing practices for materials and assets that are required with technical blueprint specifications.• Heavy amount of technical purchases with controls automation, pumps, motors and valves, PLC & Allen Bradley parts.• Negotiating pricing, terms and conditions with vendors for upcoming and on going projects.• Create and maintain BOM’s (Bill of Materials) for projects and part(s) order(s).• Trained junior buyers and expediters.

Responsibilities:• Purchase all materials on going and upcoming projects.• Manage Petty cash and all Petty cash Receipts.• Purchase all office supplies and maintain inventory levels for office supplies.• Build and maintain relationships with all vendors.• Maintain Safety equipment and replace damaged safety equipment.• Maintain all Tools and replace damaged tools.• Communication with all Project Managers, Operations Manager and Accounts Payable Department.

Achievements:• Reduced cost on all materials across the state.• Improved vendors' relationships.• Expanded the amount of vendors to obtain materials with in the state.Responsibilities:• Purchase concrete, block and steel products for any jobs from Tampa to Jacksonville.• Billing, Invoicing, Accounts Receivable and update all customer information.• Dispatch 2 40 Ton cranes, 3 Ready Mix Trucks and 2 Concrete pumps.• Customer service and take offs for those customers.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Responsibilities:• Taking and placing orders for all walk-in trade and phone orders.• Arranging orders for shipment or customer's job site pick ups.• Researching, placing and issuing purchase orders for all specialty orders.• Dealing with vendors for tracking and arranging orders for regular and specialty items.• Dispatch 5 trucks and warehouse employees.• Forklift training

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Dispatch ManagerAchievements:• First Dispatch Trainee within the Company.• Youngest Dispatch Manager in the Company.Responsibilities:• Dispatching 2 offices, 45 Ready Mix trucks and employees for day to day operations.• Purchasing materials, fuel and supplies for plant operations.• Yard operations to make sure batch plant materials were maintained constantly, all materials were being maintained in correct locations and plant cleanliness.• Taking and placing orders for all walk-in trade and phone orders.• Batching materials into Ready mix trucks correctly.• Cash Reconciliation, Inventory Control, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Collections.Junior BuyerResponsibilities:• Procurement Training as a junior buyer.• Watching inventories levels.• Maintaining a steady turn of products.• Watching and moving dead inventory.• Working with the purchasing team on cost reduction and vendor relations.

Associate In Science, Business/Commerce, General

Business Specialist Technical Certificate

Contract Development And Management Certificate

High School Diploma, General Studies