As a Contract Procurement Coordinator, you will be responsible various planning activities in support of the outsourcing of the Space Ships, Mother Ships and Propulsion Systems. You will be expected to support the procurement organization by managing approvals and budget coding of purchase requisitions for transition and release of purchase orders, teaming with material planning and buyers to connect our procurements between our planning needs and buyers placing orders.
You will develop and document metrics for approval status of purchases, alignment to project and product budgets, and date alignments between suppliers promise dates and our internal need dates. You will be expected to develop solutions for identifying risks to the schedule for supplier interactions and mitigating these risks to avoid schedule deviations
This person must work from our new Mesa AZ facility 3x per week.
We would like this person to start by the end of November 2024 OR the first week of January 2025.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support various planning tasks including data entry or extraction, uploading of documentation, updates or inputs into database or systems
- Working with finance to ensure all budget codes and alignments to the integrated product teams or Bill of Material (BOM) from our ERP (Oracle)
- Timely approval for material needs and alignment between supplier promise dates and production or test need dates.
What You Bring:
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an administrative role.
- Ability to document work in progress and maintain effective records.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, excellent computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail.
- Team player with excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines.
- Strong knowledge of basic computer applications and Microsoft Office (particularly Excel), as well as the ability to learn and use multiple applications specific to this function
- A general understanding of Aerospace procurement processes.
- Experience using Oracle or ERP/MRP, Agile or 3DX PLM
- Experience in a buyer role