Capital Project Buyer

Talascend is currently seeking a Capital Project Buyer for a contract opportunity with our client in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Overview

The role involves supporting purchasing activities for high-risk engineered equipment and commodities, ensuring compliance with technical and commercial requirements.

Responsibilities

• Evaluation of technical requirements prepared by Engineering to ensure the most appropriate method of accomplishment is utilized to acquire engineered equipment and associated commodities.
• Assists Project Planning and Project Sourcing to ensure all commercial and technical requirements are followed.
• Coordination with other project functions (e.g., Project Controls, Planning, Finance, Insurance) to ensure project requirements are achieved.
• Development and maintenance of bidders’ lists, ensuring input is received from all procurement functions and other operational groups.
• Issuance of Request for Quotes (RFQ) and RFQ amendments.
• Commercial evaluation of proposals, including determination of price reasonableness in accordance with FAR and DFAR requirements as well as Customer Policy and Procedures.
• Preparation of negotiation plans and associated negotiations with suppliers.
• Extensive understanding of FAR/DFAR Parts and clauses.
• Comprehensive understanding of commercial terms and conditions and coordination and resolution of exceptions to terms and conditions with customer General Counsel, as applicable.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for resolution of all Purchase Order issues, whether commercial or technical related.
• Resolve Supplier quality issues, purchase order accounting issues and problem receipts.
• Assists in developing other Buyers and collaboratively working with all project team members to achieve overall project goals.
• May be responsible for determining material requirements from engineering and production schedules and maintaining inventory at appropriate level.
• Understanding of MRP Oracle systems.
• Ability to produce and maintain several contract types including Firm Fixed Price, Time & Materials, as well as issuance of standard Purchase Order, Blanket Agreements, and Indefinite Deliveries/Indefinite Quantity type agreements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline in Supply Chain, Business, or Engineering, or extensive knowledge and experience in Supply Chain for specialty equipment and associated commodities for Government projects.
• 5 years of previous procurement experience with a government agency.

Requirements

• Possess effective communication skills, both orally and in writing, with internal and external customers at various levels.
• Experience with manufacturing procurements preferred.
• Competency working with all Microsoft Office products.
• May require travel.
• Ability to read and understand Bill of Materials requirements and quantity take-offs from Engineering issued drawings is highly desirable.
• DOE experience preferred.