Job Title: Buyer
Location: Rosyth + Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56535
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Buyer at our Babcock LGE Rosyth site.
Through expert engineering, procurement, project management and aftermarket support – combined with world-leading technologies – Babcock’ s LGE business future-proofs our customers’ assets, allowing improved performance while reducing operational costs and meeting ever-tightening environmental and emission regulations.
The role
As a Buyer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Reporting to the Team Leader, the main purpose of the role is to establish and maintain a good working relationship with Suppliers and where necessary with Customers, such that they would wish to receive and place future business with LGE Process. You will also communicate with Suppliers, Contractors and Personnel within LGE Process and when necessary within Babcock to establish a clear definition of requirements and to ensure performance to agreed contract terms.
Day to day, you’ll:
• Promote and maintain a culture of openness, honesty, commitment and continuous improvement.
• Actively support the company's Health, Safety, Environmental, Quality, ABC and other policies and procedures.
• Actively seek to anticipate and mitigate problems/difficulties.
• Perform all tasks involved in the formation and administration of Purchase Orders, Purchase in accordance with the Company Quality Procedures.
• Communicate with suppliers as necessary to achieve required service and results from potential and actual suppliers to meet project needs.
• Keep Tendering department informed of changes to price agreements, changes to lead times and new suppliers to be considered
This role is full time 37hrs/week and will be based at Rosyth site with hybrid arrangements: 2 days a week on the office, 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Buyer:
• Experience in procurement
• Be a good problem solver
• Be enthusiastic, with excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills
The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits
• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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