Plant Buyer

What’s in it for you

Taking care of our people is in our nature - so you’ll enjoy:

• Annual salary between $65,000 and $80,000
• Profit sharing and an employee share purchase plan
• A full range of benefits: group insurance, telemedicine, and an employer-supported retirement plan
• An annual allowance to spend on goods and services of your choice
• A yearly wellness program and employee assistance program
• A collaborative, respectful, and people-centered workplace

Your Role

As Plant Buyer, you’ll take on real challenges that bring out your full potential. 
Your scope includes:

• Procureing MRO materials, components, and services to support maintenance operations.
• Evaluate and select suppliers based on cost, quality, service, and delivery timelines (excluding SDI or Corporate Supplier List purchases).
• Issue and manage purchase requisitions, ensuring accuracy and completeness. Including the confirmation of delivery timeline, and the follow-up, investigation and resolution of delivery issues, invoice discrepancies, and billing delays.
• Monitor supplier performance, market conditions, and material availability.
• Inventory Organization/Control – Support the tracking of maintenance spare part and operational supply level inventories and ensure accuracy of the inventory database in SAP.
• Inventory Optimization – Analysis of spare part and operating supply inventory targets on a regular basis in efforts to optimize inventory levels. Considerations involved in setting inventory safety stock levels in SAP with coordination with maintenance teams including part availability, part cost, cycle count, importance to the operation, # used in the plant, lead times, usage history, etc.
• Reporting – Use the plant maintenance logbook/SAP to track outstanding spending for maintenance parts and operating supplies; work with maintenance teams and report to maintenance manager to establish month end accruals; tracks and reports performance against Monthly Spare Part Inventory Levels, Maintenance Spending and Plant Material Control Accuracy.

What you bring

You're a natural fit for Plant Buyer if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical background or supply chain discipline or equivalent education combined with relevant job experience. Strong technical understanding and interest.
• 3+ years of experience in purchasing, storeroom, or inventory control in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of procure-to-pay processes and maintenance-related purchasing preferred.
• Proficiency in SAP (MM module or equivalent) and familiarity with PLM systems.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Basic understanding of maintenance operations and MRO materials.

If you bring the same care to who you are as to what you do, we’d love to meet you!

Apply now and join our team as Plant Buyer in Calgary.

Cascades values diversity and inclusion and considers all applications equitably. This posting is for an active vacancy within our organization. / This posting is intended to build a pool of qualified candidates for future opportunities.