Senior Procurement Mechanical Engineer

DEDIENNE AEROSPACE is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and maintenance of aeronautical tooling.

For more than 50 years, our products have demonstrated our expertise, quality of service, and technical capabilities, all at the cutting edge of industrial performance, to provide maximum satisfaction to our customers (aircraft manufacturers, engine manufacturers, firms, MRO companies, lessors, and others).

DEDIENNE AEROSPACE is an international company with operations on every continent and close to its customers, providing high-quality after-sales service in locations such as Miami, Cincinnati, Querétaro, Dubai, Singapore, Zhuhai, the UK, Qatar, France, Mexico, and elsewhere.

The diverse range of licenses acquired (e.g., with manufacturers of engines, aircraft, and equipment), as well as our partnerships with Original Equipment Manufacturers, enable us to position ourselves on the market with strength and credibility and guarantee our sustainable growth.

Our employees, with their variety of cultural backgrounds and nationalities, are our biggest asset, and actively participate in dynamic, ambitious projects with robust values advocated by the company: working in a company of moderate size yet operating on an international scale, while gearing each project towards one objective – customer satisfaction.

As a procurement engineer, you monitor order placement with suppliers in collaboration with the purchasing team; you monitor manufacturing and ensure compliance with delivery deadlines; you monitor stock management of program products; and you provide proposals for the evolution of its management. You manage the program indicators and carry out customer reporting in collaboration with the program's customer manager.

You are in contact and collaborate with the company's departments, from production to quality, including sales and the design office.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Negotiate terms and deadlines with suppliers on certain families of purchases.
• Ensure the coordination of the physical flows of materials, products, and tools to satisfy the continuous and constant demands of the services of customers and suppliers.
• Estimate the quantities of products to order based on the state of stocks, flow forecasts, the periodicity of orders, and delivery times from suppliers.
• Ensure receipt of orders.
• Ensure compliance with specifications.
• Set up delivery schedules for suppliers.
• Knowledge of precisely the needs of the perimeter, their evolution, and their scheduling.
• Follow up on orders until delivery.
• Supervise any disputes.
• Continuously update the supplier database by integrating new market data.
• Be a force of proposal on the evolution of inventory management criteria: increase / decrease in breakage thresholds and launch quantity.
• Be a force for proposal on the stock management of new products or stop management on the stock of poorly sold references.
• You perform and keep up to date the program and supplier management indicators.
• You ensure customer reporting, both in terms of product delivery planning and activity reporting.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Knowledge of the purchasing and supply procedures
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office software: Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Knowledge of ERP software
• Knowledge of the entire industrial process and the needs of each workshop
• Knowledge of the materials, the products, and the different parts.
• Knowledge of negotiation techniques
• Master logistics tools.
• Knowledge of the market.

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Flexible, enthusiastic self-starter, able to work with minimum supervision.
• Continuous performance, improvement mindset, and the ability to lead and inspire change.
• Learns quickly, grasps the 'essence of what is happening’, and can change the course quickly.
• Builds strong relationships with peers and partners outside of the team to enable higher performance.
• Strong organizational and management skills.
• Openly considers the ideas of others, analyzes, and develops innovations into reality.
• Positive negotiation skills.
• Ability to handle many conflicting priorities.
• Initiative and results-driven.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical or industrial engineering.
• Minimum of 2-4 years of Purchasing-related experience or demonstrated Knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the above-mentioned tasks.
• International trading and logistics.
• Bilingual (English-French or English-Spanish)
• COMPENSATION
• Competitive salary package
• Excellent benefits package
• Continuous training.
• ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• • Eligible to work for any employer within the US
• • Employment is contingent upon the satisfactory outcome of pre-employment screening activities, including a background check.