Williams Racing
Electronics & Control Systems Buyer
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Job Description
Role Purpose (Job Profile)
The Electronics and Control Systems Buyer is responsible for raising and managing purchase orders for electronic components, wiring looms/harnesses, sensors, and control systems hardware, ensuring engineering specifications are correctly communicated and that the purchase requirement is properly authorized.
Main Duties
- Generate Purchase Orders for the supply of electronic components, control systems hardware, and related services, ensuring any engineering specifications, processes, or engineering up-issues (e.g., PCB revisions, firmware/hardware compatibility) are fully communicated, and that the purchase requirement is appropriately authorized.
- Expedite and progress deliveries from electronics and control systems suppliers & maintain timely reporting of delivery status of parts outstanding (e.g., sensors, looms, ECUs, connectors), routinely feeding back status into internal stakeholders.
- Deal with any non-conformances (e.g., component failures, incorrect firmware/hardware revision, damaged connectors) quickly and efficiently to minimize delays.
- Complete commercial checks of supplier payment terms, delivery terms, and general Terms & Conditions for electronics and control systems suppliers to ensure that these are aligned with Williams’ requirements.
- Take the lead on tender processes for electronics and control systems commodities, creating new contracts, inclusive of clear deliverables, lead times, and terms and conditions.
- Development of a strategic supply base for electronic components, wiring looms/harnesses, sensors, and control systems hardware.
- Carrying out supplier audits, including assessment of ESD control, IPC-A-610/620 compliance, and component traceability processes where relevant.
- Ensure that all aspects of transactional procurement of electronics and control systems goods and services for the category are achieved.
- Check Supplier Acknowledgements and challenge when required, particularly around lead time and obsolescence risk on electronic components.
- Optimize the total value being delivered to the race team - on time and to the required quality standard, with particular attention to component traceability and counterfeit-avoidance.
- Negotiate contracts with suppliers that provide best value to the business.
- Rationalize and develop supplier base to those that provide best value to the business.
- Support the Procurement team to achieve departmental measures of performance.
- Support & develop continuous improvement initiatives within the team, including obsolescence management and component lifecycle tracking.
- Sell the value of the Procurement function to the wider business to drive realization of commercial opportunities via greater engagement.
- Ensure that the company's Health & Safety policy is observed.
- Any other tasks and responsibilities required by the company that are reasonably within the role holder's capabilities and skill set.
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Capabilities
- Previous procurement experience working within a fast-changing engineering or manufacturing environment, ideally within electronics or control systems commodities.
- F1, Automotive, Motorsports procurement experience is desirable but not essential.
- Understanding of technical drawings, schematics, and BOMs, with procurement experience of electronic components, wiring looms/harnesses, sensors, PCBs, or control systems hardware, is desirable.
- Good problem-solving and team working skills with the ability to work under own initiative. Awareness of component obsolescence management, counterfeit-avoidance practice, and traceability requirements (e.g., IPC-A-610/620) is desirable.
- Willing to help throughout the department and have a positive attitude.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills are essential.
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This job description is not exhaustive, and the job holder will be required to carry out from time-to-time tasks in addition to the above that will be both reasonable and within their capabilities.
Additional Information
Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.
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