Bombardier
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Job Title: Job Buyer
Location
Primary Location: Biggin Hill Service Center
Organization
Bombardier Services (UK)
Employee Status
Requisition
16074 Buyer
About the Role
Bombardier’s Business Aircraft London Service Centre in Biggin Hill is part of an award-winning network and is the flagship of Bombardier’s European operation. This Base and Line Maintenance Centre is the fastest-growing Service Centre in Europe and the largest Business Aircraft OEM in the UK. The facility has the capabilities to perform an array of maintenance checks, modifications and upgrades all from this site. Only 14 miles from London, Bombardier’s Biggin Hill Service Centre is ideally located to support operators in the UK region and beyond.
Contributions to the Team
- Adhere to Bombardier's Maintenance Organization Procedures, including relevant parts of the MOE and applicable work instructions.
- Attend kick-off (pre-input) meetings and proactively prepare purchase orders and arrange slots with external vendors for the overhaul and repair of aircraft units and parts.
- Track materials, tools, and ground support equipment for the purpose of recertification and maintenance schedules.
- Ensure timely calibration of tools.
- Identify alternate and superseded part numbers.
- Identify and schedule critical paths and assign priorities. Determine priority items to ensure parts are delivered on time and are readily available.
- Coordinate repair and overhaul quotes and lead times.
- Place purchase orders and ensure that purchased parts, materials, consumables, standard tools, special tools, ground support equipment, or services are conforming to specified purchase requirements.
- Take into account warranty and special programs when obtaining parts, spares, or services from the proper supplier.
- Ensure that parts/maintenance/overhauls are ordered only at suppliers/(sub)contractors on the ASL.
- Arrange and track shipments with forwarders.
- Generate purchase order requests through the P/O system in SAP and monitor timely delivery.
- Track incoming orders and report the status immediately to the Project Responsible and the Project Manager.
- Monitor timely deliveries and inform the Material Supervisor if orders are delayed ('constraints').
- Handle core and warranty issues and programs.
- In conjunction with the Material Handler, monitor and re-order consumables using min/max principles to ensure stock outages are minimized on high turnover items.
- Ensure the timely acquisition of parts, materials, and tooling needed to service the customer aircraft by planning and forecasting requirements and coordinating acquisition with suppliers and stores personnel.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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How to Thrive in This Role
- Bachelor’s degree (or work level) in Purchasing or Inventory Management.
- Experience in aviation or material/parts environment.
- Basic knowledge of aircraft parts and terminology.
- Knowledgeable on, and practicing of, human factors, human performance, and limitations.
- Knowledge of and experience with logistics processes.
- Knowledgeable on EWIS and CDCCL when relevant (e.g., tooling requirements).
- Computer skills necessary to learn and/or operate word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, email, and web-based applications.
- Planning and organizational skills necessary to prioritize and coordinate workload within a multiple project setting with rapidly changing priorities.
- Interpersonal skills necessary to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Planning Department and Maintenance Staff.
- Basic knowledge on applicable officially recognized European regulations, being EASA Part-145, PGS-15, ADR, IATA category 7/8.
- Training 'Airfreight Security Employee' (if access to store).
- Training 'Road Transport/Awareness ADR' (Dangerous Goods).
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Bombardier is an equal opportunity employer and encourages persons of any race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, immigration status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics to apply.
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