Senior Purchasing Agent-Jobs in Florida
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Job Title:Senior Purchasing Agent
Job Category:Purchasing
Req Number:FL-ORL-05722
Location:FL – Orlando
KB Home, a Fortune 500 NYSE company and one of America’s premier homebuilders, has an immediate employment opportunity available. The Company operates in numerous states across the nation from California to Florida.
KB Home has been building homes for a half a century, and was recently ranked the #1 homebuilder in Fortune Magazine’s 2008 list of America’s most admired companies. Also in 2008, KB Home became the first builder to earn the prestigious National Housing Quality (NHQ) Certified Builder Program for all of its operations nationwide.
KB Home seeks a Purchasing Agent to add to the team. This person will be responsible for bidding and negotiating with vendors and contractors as well as estimating the costs and materials needed from suppliers to build the home. The specific duties of this position are: – Develop product specifications – Develop and review Scope of Work on a regular basis with construction to ensure trades are meeting the expectations of the contract. – Maintain take-off information to ensure vendor pricing is in line with material used. – Recruit and qualify larger vendor base to meet divisional objectives. – Supervise the distribution of bid packages in electronic format – Analyze subcontractor proposals – Establish direct cost benchmarks for all existing and future product series. – Generate periodic market analysis to benchmark labor costs for optimization – Provide proposed bid analysis for subcontractor selection team for Vendor Assignments – Supervise budget maintenance on a monthly basis and provide new budgets to senior management – Continually look into innovative products, techniques and changes in the home building industry – Insure product specification change requests are processed – Assist Purchasing Director in generating projected direct costs for future communities to Forward Planning. – Work closely with Plan Administrator ensuring accuracy of plans for bidding purposes – Work closely with Purchasing Manager ensuring direct and option costs are completed for projected new communities – Analyze house drawings and blueprints for value engineering purposes Requirements include, but are not limited to: – A minimum of at least 4years experience with the procurement of construction material and preferably in the high production home building industry. – Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in blue print reading as well as take-off estimating. – Candidate must have an understanding of the bidding and compilation process for subdivision budgets. – Proficiency in utilizing computer software (Microsoft Office) and preferably have utilized purchasing software
Find out why KB Home is attracting and retaining the best employees! If you are interested and qualified, please apply now. KB Home provides above average compensation packages and earnings potential, full benefits, an outstanding 401K matching program, bonus plans and amazing promotional opportunities. KB Home is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring a diverse work team. Diversity is important to KB Home!
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