Purchasing Agent Bolt Buyer

Overview

Manage bolt and misc steel procurement, vendor relations, budgeting, and order expediting.

Key Responsibilities

• bolt purchasing
• vendor management
• material tracking
• budget monitoring
• po expediting
• pre‑job planning

Tasks

-Measures cost savings vendor to vendor -Schedule the specifics of size, shape and length of required bolts to enable ease of flow through the fabrication process. -Ensure the terms of purchase and prices of materials adhere to contractual or negotiated pricing parameters. -Vendor visits and builds vendor relationships -Follow jobs in progress to expedite or delay shipments as needed to control inventory and expenses. -Interface with various levels of management with differing demands. -Completes material status reports weekly -Follows up on all bolt releases needed from project team -Buys all bolts and misc products to meet budget, quality, special requirements and job schedule and enters PO's accordingly -Expedites all material Pos at least weekly, relays any problems to PM teams, shop, production and field superintendents -Helps VP vette all vendors, advises VP of all delivery issues, quality issues and other vendor problems and assists in vendor audits -Track budgets on all buys -Creates JOB BUYING PLAN for all jobs assigned to buyer -Tracks receipt of bolts at job sites, confirms all paperwork is received and certs are received -Approves vendor invoices for bolts and misc products timely and confirms all items have been received prior to approval -Continually watch spend for waste items, excess freight and other preventable costs -Participates in pre-job planning, kick off meeting, confirming LOI/contracts release buying, QA/QC checklist, Schedule, job specs and origin requirements -Assists where needed in estimating bolt prices for estimating -Manage multiple projects while meeting stringent deadlines.

Requirements

• steel construction
• plate products
• sox
• bom
• purchase order
• purchasing

What You Bring

-Basic knowledge and understanding of steel construction in terms of required materials; -Strong knowledge of plate products and plate mills and service center vendors. -Understands and follows all SOX related buying requirements -General understanding of Advanced Bill of Materials, Bill of ladings, and Purchase Order Processing; -Demonstrated knowledge of basic business and purchasing principles;

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About Schuff Steel

-A builder-mindset drives integration of preconstruction, fabrication, modularization, and erection, planning backward from completion to origin. -Projects include iconic landmarks: Wilshire Grand, Apple HQ, SoFi Stadium, State Farm Stadium, Golden 1 Center, and Vegas Strip resorts. -Deploy cutting-edge tech—BIM, CNC cutting, cobots, proprietary SIMS software—to ensure precision and constructability. -Fabrication shops pre-assemble heavy sections to reduce field risk and speed erection, lowering costs and improving safety. -Safety culture backed by full-time pre-task planning, with incident rate ~⅓ the industry average.

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