procurement agent Remote
Job description
NOW HIRING: Procurement Coordinator - LightEdison
LightEdison is looking for a full-time remote Procurement Coordinator. As we continue to impact energy infrastructure on a national scale, this individual must be passionate about renewable energy and using their career to positively impact climate change.
About LightEdison:
LightEdison is a national renewable energy company with a simple mission: to improve the communities we live in and the planet we live on. We strive relentlessly toward this goal through the development, engineering, procurement, and construction of clean energy projects, with a strong focus on LED lighting, solar, and energy storage.
As an EPC contractor, we offer best-in-class infrastructure to advance a sustainable future, seeking to dramatically improve human lives through clean energy.
Career Advancement:
LightEdison is committed to ongoing training and development of its Team Members to provide professional growth, increased responsibilities and leadership opportunities. Our Procurement Coordinators receive regular training opportunities to promote career advancement in the solar power industry, including OSHA, NFPA and NABCEP courses, as well as certifications in first aid, safety and operation of equipment.
Roles & Accountabilities
- Coordinating the movement of people, products and equipment as needed
- Maintaining responsibility for the Procurement schedule using Google Calendar
- Tracking the progress of procurement tasks within G-Sheets and our company app
- Collaborating with Operations Directors and Project Managers to determine yearly Procurement goals and objectives
- Ensuring Procurement goals are being met
- Delighting our customers with prompt attention to their requests
- Assisting with creating and quantifying Procurement team innovations
- Assisting with developing and continuously improving Procurement standard operating procedures
- Developing, continuously improving and completing work in accordance with Company-wide and position-specific standard operating procedures
- Coordinating critical trucking paths for incoming shipments
- Site visits on an as-needed basis
- Composing, reaching out to on a regular basis, and tracking vendors and their shipments for timely deliveries and quality pricing
Education and Certification Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or related field preferred, but candidates with confirmed experience in this field will also be considered
Required Competencies
- Creating and issuing Purchase Orders in close coordination with Project Managers, within our company app
- Updating Company product databases with up to date Product information
- Tracking product shipments, including carriers, tracking numbers, receipt locations and damage
- Coordinating product returns
- Arranging people travel logistics, including airfare, rental cars, lodging and other Company staff related coordination
- Working closely with Finance Division and Project Managers to insure that people, product and equipment logistic costs are within budget
- Working closely with Project Managers to arrange for the ordering, delivery, service and pick-up of Company-owned and rental equipment
- Google workspace competency
- Overseeing inventory of goods and vehicles
- Reviewing freight costs, transportation rates and/or the prices of raw materials to keep costs down where possible
- Streamlining shipping and transportation processes
Behavioral Expectations
- Customer focus, customer focus, customer focus
- Unrelenting professionalism
- Actively contribute to a culture of collaboration, teamwork and continuous improvement
- Learn and actively contribute to improvement or overhaul of company standard operating procedures; If something is not working well we fix it, led by you
- Problem solving; all problems are discussed in the context of a proposed solutions
- Report to work on time, ready to work
- Positive attitude
- Set deadlines and meet them
- Perform positional duties efficiently
- Communicate with leadership and other team members on needs/expectations
- Cleanliness of your work area and self
- Abide by all state and federal safety regulations
- Maintain all certification requirements. Submit new certifications prior to the expiration date
- Ability to lift as least 50 pounds
- Ability and willingness to travel at least 5-10% of the time
