The buyer plays a pivotal role to ensure the timely acquisition of parts and materials needed to service customer aircraft by planning and forecasting part and material requirements and coordinating acquisition with internal and external suppliers and materials personnel.

• Evaluate suppliers to partner with and maintain the Approved Suppliers List (ASL).
• Purchase material within the approved budget.
• Place all types of purchase orders and ensure that purchased products, tools or services conforms to specified purchase requirements.
• Ensure that parts are ordered from suppliers on the ASL and that part repairs and overhauls are only subcontracted to organizations on the ASL.
• Generate all purchase order requests through the Purchase Order system in SAP.
• Arrange inbound and outbound shipments with forwarders which include coordinating customs clearance.
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