Purchasing Engineer

Purchasing Engineer

Automotive Tier 1

Birmingham, West Midland

Purchasing Engineer required by major car parts suppliers for the automotive industry. This global Tier 1 imports, exports and sells parts produced within its Birmingham based manufacturing plant to the majority of Automotive OEMs in Europe.

The Role:

• Manage defined purchasing activities throughout the company and explore alternative purchasing opportunities and solutions.
• Operate the purchasing function at it's UK based facility in line with established purchasing principles and procedures as set out at Group level.
• Work closely with centralised purchasing function at its European HQ and other purchasing functions within the Group to achieve maximum benefit from suppliers.
• Work in parallel with the Purchasing Coordinator (Europe based), to maximise the communication, support of and reporting to Group Purchasing and other departments.
• Manage new projects within the defined timescales and targets.
• Estimate purchasing costs and collect indicative costing information from suppliers, to support new business enquiries.
• Search, assess, visit and build relationship and cooperation with new suppliers
• Prepare and issue RFQ, letter of intent, tooling order, purchase order and commitment to cost reduction activity.
• Identify areas of non-compliance between quotations and drawings / specifications.
• Organise and control prototypes/materials trials and performance with suppliers.
• Define a purchasing strategy, monitor supplier performances and report against progress to achieve cost/quality/delivery targets.
• Negotiate and agree General Purchasing Agreements (GPA's) and Price Agreement (contract), including price update on system, with all suppliers on the approved supplier list.
• Negotiate and agree Annual Price Reduction (APR) with all suppliers.
• To monitor and analyse market trends in commodity material costs.

The Person:

• Procurement experience gained within a volume manufacturing environment or similar is a MUST.
• Business or Engineering degree is beneficial but not essential.
• Knowledge of REACH/IMDS/PPAP is beneficial but not essential.
• Experience reading technical drawings. Knowledge of various manufacturing processes.
• Experience of procurement procedures and quality requirements.
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc)
• Understanding of automotive NPI methodology.

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