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Supply and Purchasing Assistant II

Industry

Industrial Manufacturing

Company Location

Chesapeake, VA

Work Location

On-Site

Become a key member of our client's Alteration Installation Teams, supporting C4ISR system installations on ships and submarines. Join the top team on the waterfront, working for unrivaled compensation and benefits.


Abilities:

  • Assist with a variety of routine and/or low to high-dollar value buying/purchasing tasks involving materials, suppliers, or services.
  • Assisting with obtaining quotes from vendors
  • Reviews purchase requisitions, places orders with approved suppliers, and follows up on all orders to ensure timely delivery.
  • Uses websites to research and determine parts and material information
  • General understanding of logistics and purchasing
  • Inspecting and receiving materials and equipment
  • Assist in preparing materials for shipment and storage
  • Tracking material orders and shipments
  • Advanced use of computerized inventory system
  • Complying with requirements to handle hazardous materials
  • Utilizing MS Word and MS Excel to document material inventory for projects.
  • Assisting with invoices to make sure they correspond with the appropriate purchases, transfers, and rental transactions.
  • Assist with maintaining official vendor pricing records from year to year to track pricing fluctuations.


Experience:  2 Years of material tracking and logistics knowledge

Minimum Education: High School Diploma or GED


Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and may meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. Citizenship, for access to classified information; eligibility for a DoD clearance is required. You must pass a background investigation. You must have a valid driver's license.

 

Abilities:

  • Lifts at least 100 pounds at one time and 60 pounds for an extended period of time.
  • Relocates a 12-foot stepladder without assistance.
  • Works at various heights up to 60 feet and can climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks and all types of ladders.
  • Walks, climbs, lifts, squats, crawls, kneels, pushes, pulls and reaches overhead on a routine and repetitive basis.
  • Possess good vision (may be corrected vision), the ability to see in color, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.
  • May use a standard ladder without exceeding the weight limit while carrying tools.
  • Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.  It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
  • Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
  • Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
  • See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
  • Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

 

Applicants for this position may be required to prove that they have received the COVID-19 vaccine or demonstrate that they have a valid religious or medical reason not to be vaccinated.


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