Procurement Assistant

The Procurement Assistant will fulfill many administrative functions that align with the responsibilities of the Purchasing, Contracts, Accounting, and Shipping & Receiving teams. In this role, you will implement relevant business management concepts and processes.

Category : Procurement

Location : Mojave, CA

Citizenship Required : United States Citizenship

Clearance Type : None

Schedule : 9 / 80 Work Schedule

Relocation Assistance : Relocation assistance may be available

Benefits : 100% Paid Benefits and 401k Matching

Summary :

Founded by legendary aircraft designer Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites is a 40-year-old aerospace company continually working to push boundaries, prove out ideas, and influence the future. We are a rapid prototyping and manufacturing facility, designing, building, and testing proof-of-concept and prototype vehicles. We have flown an average of one new aircraft type per year over our 40-year history such as Proteus, GlobalFlyer, SpaceShipOne, Model 401, and Stratolaunch.

Duties and Responsibilities may include but are not limited to :

• Maintaining assistance with processing (following the process from beginning to end of) Purchase Orders and assisting with administrative tasks, as needed, to support the Procurement Team.
• Performing a variety of purchasing duties.
• Maintaining records and files pertinent to purchasing, contracts and shipping receiving information.
• Purchasing routine, non-discretionary materials and supplies.
• Compiling, recording, and tracking pertinent purchasing, activities and pricing data.
• Within prescribed limits, checking status and expediting deliveries of material ordered and shipments received.
• Coordinating return of rejected or unsuitable orders.
• Responding to requests for purchasing data and status of material activities.
• Completing change orders and reconciling POs per invoices received, as well as obtaining invoices from vendors as needed. Maintaining the Open Order Report to ensure invoices are vouchered in a timely manner.
• Maintaining vendor relationships through phone calls and meetings.
• Setting up visitor requests for onsite visits to ensure clearance and badging is complete prior to the visit.
• Processing Request for Quotes and providing feedback and information to our internal customers.
• Fastenal Vendor Management Inventory (VMI) - processing badge updates and researching issues that may arise with the VMI machines.

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