Engineering Purchaser
| Posting date: | 12 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £33,000 to £35,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK4 4AE |
| Company: | Hunter Selection Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SE26605_1749741121 |
Summary
Engineering Purchaser
Milton Keynes
Monday-Friday Days
£33,000-£35,000
Benefits:-
- 31 Days Holiday, Discounted Company Shares Scheme
- 5% Matched Private Pension & Life Assurance
- BUPA Private Healthcare
- Staff Discounts, Subsidised Canteen, Car & Bike Schemes, Team/Family Events
- Engineering Skills Matrix Training & Development Plans for all Engineers
Our client is a leading food manufacturing company, the site is part of a larger national organisation. Due to growth and further expansion within the engineering team, they are looking for an Engineering Purchaser for their busy maintenance spares/parts area.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Be responsible for ensuring spare parts for maintenance and servicing are in stock & payments made
- Purchase engineering equipment & parts to agreed spec, on time, in full and at the best cost
- Identify areas where cost and waste can be reduced
- Responsible for stores administration, financial reporting & admin
- Process PO's in an accurate and timely manner to the finance teams
- Develop strong working relationships with suppliers
- Carry out stock take of the engineering stores
- Work closely with the engineering stores manager to create better stock flow & control
- Control spares costs and report on any higher costings or discontinued
Knowledge, Skills & Experience:
- Have previous working experience as an engineering purchaser
- Ideally have food manufacturing experience
- Strong financial & purchasing skills
- Beneficial if worked in an engineering maintenance function
- Good IT skills, with strong Microsoft Excel experience
- Approaches tasks with a can-do attitude with the ability to create solutions to problems
- Worked closely with finance teams, looking at costings, raising PO's
- Need to be a methodical character & good communicator
- Able to learn new IT systems quickly
- Good attention to detail
- Ideally have experience of conducting engineering parts stock takes
"To apply please email your CV / resume to [ chrisg@hunterselection.co.uk ]". - Chris Gumm - 01908 010 438
If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.
Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.
Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.