Buyer II
Built on Experience. Built for Skill. Built for You.
Keel was formed by bringing together three industry leaders combining generations of hands-on expertise in steel fabrication, shipbuilding, aerospace, and defense manufacturing.
That means when you join Keel, you’re joining a team backed by decades of proven craftsmanship and real-world results.
We build ships, defense systems, aerospace components, and heavy steel structures that serve critical missions — and we do it with pride.
Your Mission:
This position is responsible for the purchasing of responsible commodities in an industrial environment to support production and related cross-functional teams.
Work includes meeting with suppliers, reviewing requests, creating commodity strategies, creating requests for quote packages, sourcing suppliers to meet budget and program timing, ensuring suppliers understand (and comply to) flowed-down security and other requirements, analyzing pricing, comparing specifications, and expediting materials.
Explore the Depth of the Role:
- Responsible for negotiating all contracts, pricing, and issues with suppliers.
- Research, identify, evaluate, and develop new suppliers to meet strategies & production requirements.
- Work with cross-functional teams to create requests for quotation and statements of work for items required.
- Conduct analysis of supplier quotes and competitively source lowest Total Cost Suppliers.
- Ensure reasonableness and detail of expedite and other emergent costs borne by Merrill or customers (including ‘cost-plus’ customers).
- Place Purchase Orders for the purchase of goods and services.
- Negotiate short and long-term strategic sourcing agreements with suppliers.
- Interview suppliers and evaluate their products and capabilities. Manage and improve supplier relationships.
- Accountable for all pricing, terms, quality and delivery of responsible commodities.