Purchasing Agent II

Purchasing Agent II

Eldridge, IA – Direct Hire Full time – On Site

Productive Resources (www.productiveresources.com) is seeking a candidate to be part of our engineering team for our customer's facility in Eldridge, IA. As a member of our team, the selected candidate will be a Purchasing Agent II who is responsible for executing purchasing activities with moderate autonomy. This includes managing purchase orders, maintaining vendor data, and supporting inventory control. The role serves as a liaison between internal departments and external suppliers to ensure quality, cost, and delivery standards are met. Support the procurement of materials and services in alignment with operational, sales, and engineering needs. This role ensures timely purchasing, maintains inventory accuracy, and supports vendor relationships while developing toward more strategic procurement responsibilities.

This is a full-time position that is indefinite in duration with the opportunity of professional growth, and additional opportunities within our organization.

Duties:

• Representation of the company with external contacts including customer relations and vendor relations.
• Daily Review of LMT Purchase Orders and Outside Services while acting as needed to maintain on-time delivery and manage costs.
• Purchasing materials and supplies in a manner that balances quality, cost, and delivery.
• Assist as needed to ensure all material coordination is organized, 5S is maintained, and digital and physical transactions match to include managing stocking levels and reorder points.
• Assist in sourcing and onboarding new suppliers with leadership approval.
• Conducting supplier evaluations and providing feedback to internal stakeholders as well as suppliers.
• Ensuring compliance with all applicable government (including Federal, State and Local) laws, statutes, and regulations.
• Must stay current with cross training for department to ensure depth in all departmental processes.
• Ensuring the effective processing of all transactions through LMT’s processes to ensure that all support requirements are met.
• On-going collaboration and communication with all departments to ensure common understanding of departmental issues affecting throughput and the delivery schedule.
• Adherence to all company policies and procedures.
• Any other duties requested by the Purchasing Manager or Senior Leadership.

Requirements:

• High School/GED diploma.
• Must be able to sign and abide by Company’s employee manual and confidentiality agreement.
• Required to successfully complete a background check, physical and drug screening.
• Must be able to professionally communicate through verbal, written, and electronic forms of communication.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision and be teamwork oriented.
• Computer literacy at a level of competence to be able to effectively execute all departmental transactions as well as operating in a support capacity to internal customers and training of junior agents.
• Must demonstrate effective time management skills.

Preferred:

• Associate’s degree in business or related field

Compensation & Benefits:

LMT offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and excellent growth opportunities.

If you are the right person, if you have the expertise we need, submit your resume now!