Senior Buyer

Melett Ltd, a Wabtec Company, are recruiting an experienced Senior Buyer to join their team in Barnsley. Melett is a major global player in the automotive turbocharger aftermarket and part of the Wabtec Corporation Turbocharger Group. We pride ourselves on our product quality and service levels. We engineer, manufacture, and distribute turbochargers, along with the sub-assemblies, repair kits and individual components for turbochargers across the world to a range of businesses throughout the value chain.

Salary: £Competitive

Location: S75 1HT, Barnsley (Onsite)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday 08:00am to 17:00pm (flexible)

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Annual Leave: 25 days plus bank holidays (plus 8 bank holidays)

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 after 5 years’ service and 28 after 10 years
• Pension contributions up to 5%
• Healthcare cash benefits and discounts
• 4 x Salary Life insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free on-site parking

In this role, you will make a significant impact by negotiating optimal prices and trading terms with suppliers, placing repeat material orders, and planning deliveries. Ensure timely material delivery and continuously seek new potential suppliers, benchmarking costs against existing ones. By collaborating with the Engineering, Design & Development, Quality, and Production departments, you will facilitate New Product Introduction, engineering modifications, and supplier resourcing activities.

Your typical day will include:

• Managing supplier relationships and establishing positive working relationships with key internal customers.
• Generating purchase orders, liaising with freight forwarders for shipment collections, and updating/analysing stock reports to maintain target levels.
• Expediting supplier deliveries, monitoring performance, and resolving supply issues, ensuring timely responses.
• Checking freight invoices and customs entries, resolving discrepancies to ensure correct customs duty payments.
• Negotiating annual price lists, delivery terms, and contracts for new parts, aiming for optimal long-term price, quality, and service.
• Supporting engineering changes, monitoring the supplier database, and managing resource projects for new suppliers.
• Collaborating with Supply Chain, Engineering, and Quality Assurance teams to select companies meeting technical, quality, and commercial requirements.
• Placing purchase orders for New Product Development (NPD), Capex tooling, samples, pre-production, and first bulk supply.

We want to know about you:

• Experience of working as a Buyer
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Positive attitude and ability to deal with pressure.
• Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Strong number and analytical skills, combined with creative problem-solving abilities.

If you don’t have all the above criteria don’t worry, we would still like to hear from you as we live our values and always put people first and strive to expand what is possible.

Legal authorisation to work in the UK is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world.

Wabtec is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.