Procurement Specialist, Aviation MRO
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As a Procurement Specialist at StandardAero's Augusta, GA MRO, you will play a key role in sourcing and negotiating the best quality products, goods, and services for the company, ensuring the most economically advantageous outcomes. Your responsibilities will include reviewing and contributing to specifications, sourcing credible suppliers, negotiating prices and contracts, and managing supplier performance. You will be integral in maintaining the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of our procurement activities.
What You'll Do:
- Obtain and review quotes through various processes, from informal RFQs to full tendering and evaluation.
- Collaborate with other business areas to prepare business cases for capital expenditure requests, developing specifications with suppliers and end users while controlling costs.
- Initiate purchase orders and work with suppliers to monitor and expedite delivery; follow up with suppliers to resolve delivery, quality, or cost issues.
- Analyze performance measures for assigned inventory and supplies, including stock levels, inventory turns, aged inventory, due date compliance, shortages, and cost savings opportunities.
- Engage with and obtain agreement from key stakeholders regarding Supply Chain contract implementation.
- Strive to lower material costs, improve supplier quality and delivery, and reduce the supplier base through supplier rationalization projects.
- Pursue supplier consolidation or tiered supplier models and negotiate contracts to achieve cost reductions and optimal terms and conditions.
Position Requirements:
- Minimum 2 years of professional experience in sourcing and procurement, vendor relationship management, and contract negotiations.
- Prior/current professional experience partnering with OEMs and vendors.
- Experience working with 30+ suppliers/vendors on national scale.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S., without sponsorship
- High School Diploma or GED
Preferred Characteristics:
- Experience managing the full cycle of procurement, from researching parts specifications and pricing, to vendor negotiations and shipping coordination.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Supply Chain Management.
- Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, decision-making, conflict resolution, and communication skills.
- Experience utilizing AS400 or comparable ERP systems.
- Experience in an Aviation MRO environment.
Benefits that make life better:
- Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance
- 401(k) with a 5% company match, immediately vested.
- Paid Time Off accrued starting on day one.
- Quarterly Bonus opportunities
- Health & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life & AD&D Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Career development and cross-training opportunities
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- Minimum 2 years of professional experience in sourcing and procurement, vendor relationship management, and contract negotiations.
- Prior or current professional experience partnering with OEMs and vendors.
- Experience working with 30+ suppliers/vendors on national scale.
- Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Experience managing the full cycle of procurement, from researching parts specifications to vendor negotiations and shipping coordination.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Supply Chain Management.
- Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, decision-making, conflict resolution, and communication skills.
- Experience utilizing AS400 or comparable ERP systems.
- Experience in an Aviation MRO environment.
StandardAero Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about StandardAero and has not been reviewed or approved by StandardAero.
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Retirement Support — Provides a 401(k) and has added an Employee Stock Purchase Plan and an Incentive Award (equity) plan, expanding long-term savings and ownership options. These programs complement base pay with additional wealth-building mechanisms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Includes PTO, paid holidays, sick time, bereavement leave, military leave, and parental leave, with some roles accruing PTO that can increase with service. Eligibility for benefits typically begins the first day of the month after hire, indicating structured access to time-off programs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Offers tuition assistance, job training/conferences, company events, and an Employee Assistance Program as part of a comprehensive package. The inclusion of learning support and EAP provides development and wellbeing resources beyond core insurance and retirement.
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What We Do
StandardAero has become one of the aerospace industry’s largest independent maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) providers. Our company’s success is the outgrowth of the synergistic merger of businesses with complementary specialties that have exponentially increased our capabilities and generated unprecedented customer commitment and value. StandardAero offers extensive MRO services and custom solutions for business aviation, commercial aviation, military, and industrial power customers. Nearly 6,600 professional, administrative and technical employees work in more than 50 major facilities worldwide, with additional strategically located regional service and support centers all across the globe. Services include MRO for aircraft and rotorcraft engines, auxiliary power units, components; airframe services including major alterations; FAA authorized avionics capabilities; comprehensive engineering services; and custom exterior and interior design, completion, and paint. We provide these capabilities through our network of specialized facilities and mobile service teams. StandardAero is owned by Carlyle, a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across four business segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Credit, and Investment Solutions.
