Keep Our Innovation Moving: Join Canariis as a Senior Buyer!
At Canariis Corporation, we engineer the world’s finest packaged pumping systems for critical water, HVAC, and industrial applications. Our industry-leading reputation relies entirely on the precision of our machinery and the uptime of our facility. We are seeking a skilled Maintenance Technician to take ownership of our production floor, troubleshoot complex systems, and ensure our operations run safely and at peak efficiency.
If you are a hands-on problem solver who thrives on keeping high-tech equipment and facility infrastructure in prime condition, this is your opportunity to build a stable, impactful career.
Why You'll Love Working With Us
- Work with Pride: Keep the advanced machinery running that builds globally recognized, top-tier fluid systems.
- Stability & Leadership: Join an established market leader backed by senior management committed to continuous improvement.
- Pride in Ownership: Take full charge of facility health, managing vital compressed air, ventilation, and electrical systems.
- Driven by Excellence: Work in a highly organized environment where safety, compliance, and accurate logging are celebrated.
What You Will Do
JOB OVERVIEW
Under the general supervision of the Supply Chain Manager, the Senior Buyer plays a critical role in ensuring smooth operations by aligning procurement activities with operational needs, improving efficiency, and supporting quality and cost objectives. This position bridges procurement and operations, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant delivery of materials and services to support production schedules. This role ensures the right products are sourced at the right time, in the right quantity, and at competitive prices, while maintaining quality standards and compliance with company policies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential Job Duties:
- Create and submit timely accurate purchase orders to vendors, supporting contract execution and ensuring compliance with agreements.
- Work with suppliers to resolve issues such as price and quantity mismatches, invoice discrepancies, and delivery problems
- Supports contract execution and vendor-performance monitoring
- Provides operational support. Assist in handling complex clerical, administrative, technical, or customer support issues under minimal supervision, escalating only the most complex matters
- Perform complex data analysis, check records for accuracy, and assist senior team members in process improvements
- Ensure materials meet production schedule requirements, support quality operational improvement initiatives, and assist end users in procurement-related matters.
- Maintains vendor performance metrics for comparison and evaluation of factors affecting the supply chain.
- Maintains detailed inventory and minimum stock levels located in the factory. Examples but not limited include fittings, hardware, metals, paint, pipe, motors, pumps, electronics, enclosures, electrical parts, tanks, bases, consumables, gaskets,
- Analyze current procurement and inventory procedures; suggests improvements to increase efficiency of supply chain and profitability for the company.
- Negotiate pricing and lead-times for materials and supplier with vendors.
- Monitor performance of suppliers, assess their ability to meet quality and delivery requirements; identify and qualifies new suppliers in collaboration with Engineering and Sales departments.
- Support Manufacturing to ensure timely delivery of quality materials and supplies.
- Regularly analyze data to optimize supply chain performance.
- Ensure inventory levels meet Operational Plans.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives to ensure accuracy and integrity of the procurement and inventory accounting system.
- Standardize work activities to sustain and improve critical procurement activities.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
CORE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
Employees are evaluated on their adherence to the following standards, which are essential for successful performance and accountability in this role:
- Business Thinking. Perceives the organization as a series of integrated and interlocking business processes (systems thinker). Understands general business, operational, and financial concepts. Adheres to policies and procedures.
- Collaboration. Demonstrates respect of cultural and individual values regardless of background. Promotes teamwork and collaboration and strives to resolve interpersonal conflicts constructively. Spends time with direct reports in a regular basis to help them succeed. Listens, considers, and respects ideas from others, even when different from own.
- Customer Orientation. Stays close to internal and external customers to anticipate expectations. Demonstrates excellent listening, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Results Orientation. Maintains appropriate focus on short-term and long-term organizational goals and strategies. Conveys a sense of urgency to teams by staying focused on tasks and assignments. Uses time efficiently to complete assignments.
- Communication. Shares important information with direct reports and other departments in a timely manner. Listens carefully and asks questions when needed. Communicates in a clear and concise manner using appropriate channels.
- Initiative & Energy. Proactively act without being prompted. Skillful at persuading, motivating, and energizing employees at all levels. Realizes needs, takes responsibility, acts, and makes things happen.
- Problem Solving & Decision Making. Identifies and solves problems promptly with minimum supervision. Develops innovative solutions, acts decisively, and shows good judgment. Receptive to suggestions for training and continuous improvement.
- Influence & Positive Impact.Passionate, personable, and self-confident. Able to flex style and direct, collaborate, and empower as the situation requires. Establishes and maintains productive relationships and networks to facilitate employee interactions. Able to get things done through others.
- Conflict Management.Comfortable with healthy conflict. Supports and manages differences of opinion. Uses consensus and collaboration to debate and resolve issues in a promptly and professional manner.
- Learning Agility. Continuously seeks new knowledge Creates and fosters a culture of interest, curiosity, and learning. Seeks to improve processes and products. Capable of cross-functional rotation.
- Self-Objectivity. Knows own strengths and limitations. Works toward improving weaknesses. Aware of impact of own behavior on others. Solicits and uses feedback for self-improvement.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Mandatory:
- BS from an accredited college or university.
- 3-5 years of work experience in procurement in an industrial manufacturing environment.
- Work experience in ETO and MTO environments.
- Proficiency in Excel and other software.
- Ability to analyze purchasing data, identify trends, and support cost-saving initiatives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proficiency in English (reading/writing) and good speaking skills a plus.
- Detail-oriented, risk-aware, and capable of handling multiple tasks while prioritizing effectively.
- Ability to promptly solve problems and manage a variety of variables in situations where limited standardization exists.
- Strong organizational, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to handle a dynamic and fast-moving environment with recurring deliverables and production scheduling targets.
Preferred:
- Working knowledge of ERP systems.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand; walk, use hands to grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
DISCLOSURES
Canariis LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Pay: $55,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
