AI summary
Buyer role at Fairlead in Newport News, focused on sourcing vendors, negotiating pricing, and ensuring purchase orders meet technical and contract requirements. You'll manage procurement documentation, validate requisitions against project documents, and resolve delivery/receiving/invoicing issues. Standout perk: traditional office environment with some local travel between facilities.
Key skills
Procurement / buyingVendor solicitation and managementPrice analysis and negotiationPurchase order creation and managementProcurement documentation maintenanceRequisition validation against project documentsResolving delivery, receiving and invoicing issuesMS Office proficiencyUnderstanding military and commercial specifications/standards/sizesWritten and verbal communication
Salary not listed — comparable Buyer roles in Newport News, VA typically pay around $55k–$80k depending on experience and industry.
You'll thrive here if you have 4+ years of buying/procurement experience and enjoy coordinating with internal customers and vendors to negotiate pricing and keep orders compliant and on schedule.
Why apply
- Traditional office environment
- Some local travel between facilities
- Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
Minimum Requirements:
Physical Demands:
Work Environment:
Fairlead Integrated, LLC. and its subsidiaries are proud to be Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers (Minority / Female / Disability / Veterans).
- Solicitation of vendors for prices, deliveries and technical compliance
- Price analysis and negotiation of vendor proposals
- Originate and maintain procurement documentation
- Validate purchase requisitions against project documents
- Communicate effectively with internal customers and vendors
- Resolve delivery, receiving and invoicing issues
- Ensure purchase orders clearly specify all pertinent technical requirements and invoke all relevant contract clauses, terms, and conditions
Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serves as prime point of contact for clients
- Other duties may be assigned to meet business needs
Qualifications
- 4+ years directly related experience
Minimum Requirements:
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in MS Office and other common desktop applications
- Excellent interpersonal skills; strong customer service attitude
- Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills
- Able to perform rudimentary business math
- Basic understanding of military and commercial specifications, standards and sizes related to materials and equipment
Physical Demands:
- While performing these job duties, the employee is routinely required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; use fingers and hands to type or write; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
- This position is performed in a traditional office environment, with some local travel between facilities.
Fairlead Integrated, LLC. and its subsidiaries are proud to be Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers (Minority / Female / Disability / Veterans).
To apply for this position, go here: Employment Application - Fairlead Integrated