Buyer I (ControlTech Automation)

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St Louis, MO
Entry level
Design
The Role
As a Buyer at ControlTech Automation, you'll manage material and freight costs, fulfill purchase requests, and work closely with suppliers to ensure timely delivery. You'll analyze offers, monitor supplier performance, and assist with invoicing discrepancies while coordinating returns and warranty exchanges.
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About Us:

BW Design Group is a fully integrated architecture, engineering, construction, system integration, and consulting firm committed to helping our clients realize their most critical goals from Strategy to Commercialization. As the only firm born from a manufacturing technology company to become an independent and fully integrated firm, we combine deep domain expertise in the manufacturing environment with an approach that is built to serve the dynamic needs of our clients. Rooted in our distinct culture of Truly Human Leadership, we cultivate the leaders who will define tomorrow and partner with our clients in the food & beverage, life sciences, industrial, and advanced technology industries to build the future of manufacturing and technology.


 

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.


 

Job Description:

Who You’ll Work With 

As an independent division within Barry-Wehmiller Design Group, Inc., ControlTech Automation (CTA) is a control panel integrator and fabricator for process, packaging, utility, and other industries. CTA is based in St. Louis and specializes in control panels for systems integrators and production facilities located throughout the United States. CTA can provide control solutions for a single piece of equipment, an entire process, or a complete plant. CTA has engineering design capabilities or will build panels from customer-supplied design packages.  

 

When you join ControlTech Automation as a Buyer, you are joining a team that will challenge you and position you for growth.  

 

What You’ll Do 

  • Supply organization with project material and freight cost estimates 

  • Monitor and fulfill purchase requests within timely manner 

  • Analyze offers for best delivery outcome and costs savings opportunities 

  • Actively work with suppliers and project team to resolve issues 

  • Review and maintain reporting on delivery commitments 

  • Follow up directly with suppliers and project team on outstanding items for resolution 

  • Report supplier performance and delivery to appropriate team 

  • Utilize purchasing system to facilitate change orders 

  • Work with suppliers and project team to coordinate returns and warranty exchanges 

  • Provide Accounts Payable with information to resolve invoicing discrepancies 

  • Deliver complete and accurate communication on order finalization and delivery concerns 

  • Charge time towards appropriate project budget 

  • Project-related travel up to 10% may be required 

 

What You’ll Bring 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or similar field preferred 

  • 0-2 years of experience in a Buyer or Purchasing Agent role 

  • Working knowledge of MS Office Suite and purchasing software 

  • Experience negotiating prices, terms, and conditions 

  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills required 


 

At Barry-Wehmiller we recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job.  If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying.  We know that our differences often can bring about innovation, excellence and meaningful work—therefore, people from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply to our positions.  Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodations during the interview process.

Barry-Wehmiller is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V This organization uses E-Verify.


 

Applicants may be subject to pre-employment screening which may include drug screening, reference checks, employment verifications, background screening and/or skills assessments.

Company:

Design Group

Top Skills

Ms Office Suite
Purchasing Software
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The Company
HQ: Saint Louis, MO
5,547 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

We’re Building A Better World.

We’re more than just a successful capital equipment and engineering solutions firm. We’re an organization fiercely committed to improving the lives of our team members across the globe. By providing meaningful work in an environment of care and compassion, we send them home fulfilled by their time with us, rather than drained by it. We understand what every human being on the planet desires: to know that who they are and what they do matter. As a business, we have a unique opportunity to let them know that they do.

Through our Truly Human Leadership culture and personal growth initiatives, we help them become their best selves. And when we bring out their best, they give their best. To their work, their team members and friends, our customers and suppliers, the people in the communities in which they work and live, and--most important of all--to their families. And before you know it, a better job has helped build a better world!

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