Purchaser Jobs

BM&M is looking for a Purchaser to join our team in Surrey, BC. As a Purchaser, you will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the purchasing process, including ordering, purchasing, supplier management, shipping, and inventory. This is a part-time role, reporting 3 days per week, 8 hours per day.
What BM&M Offers You:

• Opportunities for development and advancement 
• Optional voluntary RRSP with up to 3% match 
• Competitive pay 
• 6 paid sick days
• PTO, paid vacation will be accrued at part-time rate.

What you’ll do:

• Provide and regularly update budget hours for work cycle planning.
• Identify and participate in opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with the Finance, Sales, Engineering, and Production departments to manage their expectations.
• Provide visibility of delivery dates of critical items.
• Provide a sorted daily demand list of required items for purchasing, and by work cell.
• Possibility of travel, up to 5%
• Collaborate with the Operations team to manage Supply Chain and inventory.
• Assist in work cycle costing audits.
• Provide a reliable daily schedule of delivery dates and shop capacity.
• Purchase items according to the demand list.

Basic Requirements:

• Critical thinking, able to improve and streamline processes.
• 2 + years of experience as a Planner or Scheduler.
• Effective at pro-active communication; an ability to accurately and timely communicate with suppliers.
• Good knowledge of the workflow between Sales, Purchasing, Planning, and production.
• Ability to perform and interpret computer and RF functions; Good working knowledge of MS Office
• Detailed knowledge of planning and purchasing utilizing MRP systems.

Great to Haves:

• Friendly, collaborative, optimistic, enthusiastic, willing to learn new skills.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule based upon business needs.
• Dependable, Strict, honest, realistic but ambitious, able to inspire.
• Team player with good communication skills; Quick learner with the ability to secure new skills in a fast-paced based department.
• Accurate, confident, experienced in dealing with shop leaders.
• Familiarity with shift work, work-cells, and a flexible work force.
• Ranking suppliers and mitigating risk in the supply chain.

Physical Demands:
To perform this job successfully, the physical demands listed are representative of those that must be met by an employee. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear. The employee may occasionally be required to crouch. The employee may occasionally lift items as heavy as 25lbs. Specific vision abilities may include the employee’s ability to see near and far distances.
Who we are:
BM&M is an international manufacturer of high-speed, high-capacity gyratory screens, we specialize in providing custom-built high-speed gyratory screening solutions for all dry bulk material industries worldwide. We have more than 50 years of proven performance from equipment in the field, and our equipment continues to outperform vibratory screens and gyro-reciprocating screens in demanding applications.
BM&M, a Rotex company, is an operating company of Hillenbrand. Hillenbrand (NYSE: HI) is a global industrial company that provides highly-engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and solutions to customers in over 100 countries around the world. Our portfolio is composed of leading industrial brands that serve large, attractive end markets, including durable plastics, food, and recycling. Guided by our Purpose — Shape What Matters For Tomorrow™ — we pursue excellence, collaboration, and innovation to consistently shape solutions that best serve our associates, customers, communities, and other stakeholders. To learn more, visit: www.Hillenbrand.com.
EEO: At Hillenbrand we strive to build a diverse workforce through equal opportunity employment that embraces and leverages the differences each individual has to offer. Equal Employment Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer of minorities/females/disabled/veterans.
DISCLAIMER: The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by the employee within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of any employee assigned to this job. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.