Specialty Buyer

The JF Petroleum Group stands as a premier leader in the North American fueling infrastructure industry, offering comprehensive turn-key solutions for distribution, construction, and service needs. We serve a diverse clientele including retail fueling stations, commercial and government fleets, and emergency power customers.

The Specialty Buyer supports our construction, service and installation business. The Specialty Buyer makes sourcing decisions on staged construction and installation jobs and sales orders. They also work with the construction and service teams to make sure all product is onsite on the required date. They will also help with interdepartmental responsibilities as needed.

The pay scale for this position is $25-26/hr depending on experience.

Job Duties:

• Uses economic analysis to determine best sourcing method: to procure direct from supplier, to coordinate purchasing through central purchasing, or to transfer material from existing inventory within the Jones & Frank/PSI supply chain.
• Prepares purchase orders for direct sourced items and routed to pre-planned staging locations in advance of construction or installation; negotiates cost of goods at the project/job level; and coordinates with vendors, project managers and engineers to determine the correct material to use for each job/project/application and additionally manages substitutions when appropriate.
• Ensures all materials are staged and fully prepared in accordance with the customer’s requested delivery date.
• Issues purchase orders to vendors, monitoring and expediting the orders as needed.
• Compare vendor acknowledgements to purchase orders to verify part numbers, quantities, prices and receipt date. Updates all information on purchase orders in ERP system as needed.
• Participates on multiple weekly ops calls and provides updates on inventory status.
• Provides assistance and support in problem resolution with the warehousing teams, carriers and vendors and ensures no issues negatively impact on-time delivery or order fill rate.
• Coordinates with Accounts Payable to ensure vendor invoices are accurate, processed on time and that the cost of materials is properly applied to each project/job.
• Manages urgent parts request from the construction teams and ensures parts are delivered as soon as possible.
• Work with Staging Warehouse personnel to ensure on-time and complete shipping of all material to support projects/jobs.
• Creates warehouse shipments and invoice inventory to customer once product is picked up or shipped from staging location.
• Conducts data and trend analysis.