Job Description

Be visionary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

The Buyer will purchase materials, equipment, supplies and services of a specialized or complex nature in accordance with prescribed purchasing regulations and procedures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Negotiates, awards and administers procurement actions for commercial and Government-funded requirements

• Involved in procurement responsibilities including capital equipment, software license agreements, blanket purchase orders, services, maintenance agreements, repair orders, construction contracts, hazardous chemicals, electronics and various other hardware and software purchased to Teledyne and Government specifications and drawings

• Provides proposal support, as required

• Frequently works with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system for tracking and reporting of data

Qualifications & Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following qualifications and competencies:

• Familiarity with purchasing concepts and must be comfortable negotiating price and other terms and conditions

• Ability to work in a high volume/pressure environment with demanding deadlines

• Excellent organizational skills

• Ability to make complex business decisions with minimal supervision

• Ability to interface with vendors and internal customers with patience, diplomacy and tact

• Excellent verbal, written and presentation communication skills

• Basic computer proficiency using Microsoft Word and Excel

• Displays exemplary ethics and business conduct and performs work cognizant of safe work practices

Education and/or Experience

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent; Bachelor’s Degree desired

• Minimum of two years’ experience of being a Buyer required

• Professional development courses in procurement management desirable

• Previous experience in a procurement function desirable

• Beneficial to have experience with ERP system of Costpoint/Deltek and quality system of Solumina

Salary Range:

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

About Us

You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day .

Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

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