Purchasing/International Shipments

Responsible for establishing a procurement program, that promotes customer satisfaction and that positively impacts the financial performance of JDS Technologies, Inc. Oversee the buying of products for use or resell. Evaluate suppliers; negotiate contracts, reviewing product quality

1. Support concurrent engineering efforts by participating in development projects representing procurement.
2. Develop, implement and document procedures for purchasing control. Evaluation, selection and re-verification of suppliers and establish supplier quality requirements,
3. Establish and implement metrics (process capability, control charts, measurement quality) for monitoring purchasing process.
4. Establish purchasing and analysis systems of statistical data to predict trends that will affect improvement of product purchased and cost savings.
5. Monitor vendor performance and establish criteria and rating system for critical vendors. 
6. Complete purchase orders, contracts and change requests and ensure that the necessary criteria and provisions are included in purchasing documents.
7. Interact with vendors to identify opportunities to improve cost, quality and establish feedback with manufacturing and development personnel.
8. Report to management on purchasing issues, trends and costs.
9. Review and submit vendor purchase orders
10. Participate in internal and external audits.

All other reasonable duties, as assigned