Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Objective

Are you passionate about environmental sustainability and eager to make a positive impact? U.S. Environmental Rental Corporation, a leader in environmental testing equipment rentals, is seeking a dedicated and detailed oriented Corporate Buyer. It is the responsibility of the Corporate Buyer to provide support to Site Directors, Sales staff, and CSRs by running inventory reports, making comparative cost analyses, verifying sales price, and/or other similarly assigned projects. Additionally, it is the responsibility of the Corporate Buyer to manage our rental fleet inventory. It is also the responsibility of the Buyer to create and maintain excellent relationships with our Vendors to maintain the best service we can provide to our staff and clients. This position requires excellent organizational skills, a professional presence, diplomacy, and time management, as well as the ability to understand and adapt to changing or fluid business needs.

Essential Responsibilities

· Although this position manages buying and inventories, additional assignments may include work in any department, including accounting, HR, safety initiatives, and/or operations.

· Buy consumable products and equipment to be resold to clients. Establish competitive but profitable pricing.

· Buy and receive equipment to be assigned to our rental fleet as fixed assets.

· Create and understand the relationship of our sales items with respect to buying, selling, and inventories.

· Collect and organize the documentation that accompanies purchasing activities. Examples include, but are not limited to, purchase orders, order acknowledgements, packing lists, invoices, certificates of calibration, SDS sheets, and certificates of analysis.

· Oversee all purchase orders. Coordinate their receiving in each office through designated staff and approve of the invoice for payment. Correct all inaccuracies.

· Oversee a bi-annual physical inventory for consumable items. Provide a year-end inventory count for consumable inventories to our accounting staff for tax filings.

· Oversee a quarterly physical inventory for fixed assets. Use those reports to reconcile any inconsistencies with client contracts, research lost or missing assets, and disposition assets as appropriate.

· Make process improvements as inefficiencies are discovered.

· Negotiate pricing on commodity items. Use long-term purchases to attain lower prices where applicable. Arrange for stocking and drop-shipping where applicable.

· Assist in drafting, formatting, and proofreading reports, presentations, and/or other company documents for the corporate team's monthly financial reviews.

· Collaborate with upper management to ensure seamless communication, workflow, and overall efficiency between corporate and all five USENV branches.

· Accurately and proactively assess requirements for each project/request. Communicate effectively with requestors and service providers, addressing questions or issues promptly and professionally.

· Manage sensitive and confidential information with confidentiality and a high level of discretion.

· Build positive and productive relationships with all USENV management staff.

· Manage time and priorities to ensure deadlines are met. Work autonomously and productively.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Excellent communication skills: You must possess exceptional verbal and written communication skills, allowing effective communication with coworkers in a clear, friendly, and professional manner.
• Strong problem-solving abilities: You must have a creative and analytical mindset, enabling you to identify and resolve issues promptly and effectively.
• Customer-centric approach: You genuinely enjoy helping others and have a natural inclination to go above and beyond to ensure internal and external customer satisfaction.
• Detail-oriented and organized: You must have excellent attention to detail to ensure accurate and detailed documentation and recordkeeping.
• Adaptability and multitasking: You must be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and can efficiently handle multiple tasks simultaneously, while remaining calm and focused.
• Autonomy: You must be able to work unsupervised while maintaining productivity.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• College degree preferred, High school diploma a must.

Preferred Experience, Skills & Abilities

• Experience with buying and inventories.
• Cost comparisons and setting sales prices.
• Working with large, diverse groups, which may yield separate assignments due to different team members.
• Experience with environmental technology, applications, and environmental justice.

Job Information

Reports To:

Operations Manager

Position Type:

Exempt

Full-time / part-time

Fulltime

Travel Required:

10% Annually

Level / Salary Range:

$65,000 Annually

Level

Entry level

This position is part of our flexible work team. All flexible work team members must be willing to receive cross-training and be able to perform the essential tasks of other flexible work team positions when reasonably requested.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or listen. The employee frequently is required to use hands or finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.

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