GSE Parts Purchaser $500 Signing Bonus (ANC Airport)

Job Summary:

The Parts Purchaser will purchase, store, and issue spare parts for motor vehicles or industrial equipment. The parts purchaser position is a support services position. It generally functions under close supervisory direction or guidance of the GSE Manager and Station Manager.

Job Responsibilities:

• Completing and maintaining accurate records of material usage, and parts ordered.

• Coordinates Warranty and Core returns with suppliers.

• Maintains and coordinates a stock of spare parts to ensure parts are available to meet customer needs.

• Receives items, enters item data and cost into inventory system, stocks items, and tracks and analyzes the movement of inventory.

• Performs cycle and physical inventory counts.

• Purchases parts from outside vendors.

• Purchases, stores, and issues spare parts for motor vehicles or industrial equipment. Reads shop manuals to ascertain type specification of part.

• Contacts vendors to order parts.

• Compares invoices against requisitions to verify merchandise received.

• Keeps records of parts received and issued, and inventories parts in storeroom periodically.

• Loading and offloading supplies if needed at various locations.

• Miscellaneous duties as assigned by Manager or Station Manager.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Possess a valid driver’s license.

• Possess strong computer skills.

• Must be familiar with Microsoft programs such as Word and Excel.

• Be at least 18 years of age.

• Must be willing to work in inclement weather.

• Good communication skills.

• Must be a U.S. citizen or show proof of right to work in the U.S.

• High School graduate or GED.

• Able to work independently.

• Ability to lift 60 pounds comfortably.

• Able to work in noisy environments.

• Able to fluently read, write, speak and understand English.

• Friendly and outgoing personality.

• Ability to work under stressful situations and tight time constraints.

• Self-motivated, team player.

• Required to work nights, weekends, holidays, and varying schedules.

• Successfully complete a background investigation, including FBI fingerprints, criminal history and pre-employment drug test.

Language Skills:

• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

• Write routine reports and correspondence.

• Speak effectively one-to-one and before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Math skills:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning Abilities:

• Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram form.

• Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands: moderate.

• The GSE Parts Purchaser on occasion may lift or move with help up to 100 pounds, and/or more frequently lift or move 70 to 100 pounds, and constantly lift or move up to 50 pounds.

• The GSE Parts Purchaser is regularly required to use hands, talk, hear, bend, stoop, kneel, and is frequently required to stand and walk.

• The GSE Parts Purchaser may be required to climb, sit, and balance.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus.

• The GSE Parts Purchaser is expected to perform some work outside and is exposed to all types of weather conditions with a seasonal range of temperatures which include rain, snow, wind and extreme temperatures.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can vary dramatically depending on location and time of day. Occasionally high noise levels where hearing protection is required and provided.