Junior Buyer

Job Description

Wood performs consulting and EPCM services for many of North America’s power generation, and power distribution companies.

Wood currently has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Buyer. Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, this position is located in our Vancouver, BC office. This role has the overall responsibility for providing key supply chain management support to Wood project teams in our Transmission & Distribution business. If you have a desire to learn and develop multi-discipline supply chain skills and thrive on challenges in a fast paced and growing environment, this is the opportunity for you.

Salary range - $60k-$85k

Wood offers a competitive Total Rewards Package, which includes a comprehensive Health & Wellness Plan, Health Care Spending Account, matching Group Registered Retirement Savings Program, Employee Assistance Program, and so much more! Final salary will be based on relevant and applicable experience, education, and the specific skill set and qualifications required for the role.

Responsibilities

• Provide assistance to the Procurement team in a learning environment
• Creating, updating, and maintaining procurement plans, issuing procurement plans to contractors
• Coordinate the purchase of equipment and materials between the various projects and their teams
• Committing purchase orders and maintaining controls to monitor supplier performance and conformance to commercial terms
• Developing and maintaining Requests for Quotations (RFQ's) and Purchase Orders (PO's) within the client’s system and Wood system
• Attesting vendor invoices
• Electronic file management in company file sharing systems
• Assisting with the documenting of shipping and receiving of all materials to various job sites
• Coordinating resolution of shortages and overages
• Reporting on material status per project schedules
  
  

Qualifications

• Solid organization and communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment
• Post-secondary business training
• Ability to handle multiple tasks
• Experience in procurement and materials coordination roles, preferably in a construction environment, is highly desirable
• Advanced level of MS Word and Excel, including a good comfort level of working within a supply chain management software package (MRP)
• Experience working with SAP is considered an asset
  
  

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.