Location: Annesley, Nottingham, NG15 0DR
Salary: £30,000 – £40,000 DOE
Contract: Full time
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 8:00am – 16:15pm.
Established in 2000, Turbine Surface Technologies is a joint venture between Rolls-Royce and Chromalloy, providing specialist coatings solutions to state-of-the-art turbine components. At TST we recognise that people are at the heart of what we do and are an integral part of achieving our business goals. Our core values are key to our culture; operate safely, operate openly with customer focus and operate with respect and integrity.
Purpose:
The Buyer role works to actively manage the supply chain for items within the allocated categories, ensuring all tasks and activities are completed in a timely fashion. To accomplish this, the Buyer will work alongside other members of the procurement department and operate in line with the TST procedures and external regulations.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Create and maintain Item Master record information on ERP system for stock parts.
- Monitor and update key variables, such as minimum stock levels, as appropriate.
- Ensure purchases comply with Economic Order Quantities (EOQ), taking into account rate of usage, carriage costs etc.
- Liaise with Production Planning staff to ensure changing product mix is taken into account in determining what/how much to order.
- Negotiate prices and contract terms for stock items.
- Involvement in procurement process for capital expenditure, including supplier selection, pricing, payment and all contract terms.
- Purchase order requisition processing (Review, sentencing, coding and order placement).
- Host daily material meeting (Team meeting).
- Arrange ad-hoc outbound shipments.
- Conduct Import customs clearances.
- Ownership of the TST Notice to Suppliers register (NTS).
- Resolve stock receipt and invoicing issues as required.
- Ensure appropriate stock levels of production materials, consumables and tooling are maintained.
- Build supplier relationships, including visits to suppliers where it is deemed useful.
- Develop and maintain Supplier performance assessment metrics.
- Develop and maintain Supplier risk assessment process.
- Any other tasks which the Company may require from time to time.
Key Competencies:
- Good organisational skills.
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to build effective working relationships at all levels.
- Good communication skills.
- Be able to work as part of a team and on their own initiative.
- Demonstrates the ability to plan work, coupled with the drive and tenacity to see projects through to completion.
- Good computer skills.
- MCIPS qualified or working towards
Behaviours and Personal Attributes:
- Experienced or competent in area of speciality
- Attention to detail – go the extra mile and not settle for “good enough.”
- Listens carefully and asks questions to clarify own understanding.
- Runs own projects with very minimal supervision.
- Good understanding of assigned function or process speciality.
- Sound decision making ability.
- Effective written & verbal communication & persuasion skills.
- Understand and comply with all Company policies.
- Comfortable in presenting to all levels of TST and where appropriate the customer.
- Confident and able to raise quality & health and safety issues.
Salary & Benefits:
Salary: £30,000 – £40,000 DOE
Hours of work: Monday to Friday 37.5 hours per week, 8:00am – 16:15pm.
You will also be part of the TST culture which offers:
Private health care scheme:
- Mental health support- including free counselling sessions.
- Dental; reimbursement of dental work from an annual allowance, option to pay to upgrade cover.
- Free eye tests and reimbursement on glasses from annual allowance.
- Bike to work scheme.
- Enhanced Holiday entitlement related to length of service.
- Free on- site parking with electric vehicle charging points.
- Refer a friend reward scheme.
- Day off work for your birthday.
- Performance related bonus scheme.
- Opportunity for development and growth.
- Life Assurance after 2 years of service.
- TST Hub exclusive offer and benefits for all employees.
Diversity and Inclusion
Turbine Surface Technologies (TST) recognises that by building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential. We believe employee diversity is an asset to our business. People of different age groups, backgrounds, genders and cultures, with a range of experiences and capabilities, help us understand and serve our customers and reach our business objectives.
Please note all candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, TST are currently unable to provide Visa sponsorship.
