Supply and Purchasing Assistant II

The M.C. Dean, Inc. Maritime Division works at shipyards around the world from our regional offices in Chesapeake, VA. Become a key member of our Alteration Installation Teams, supporting C4ISR system installations on ships and submarines. Join the top team on the waterfront, working for unrivaled compensation and benefits.

Abilities:

• Assist with a variety of routine and/or low to high dollar value buying/purchasing tasks involving materials, suppliers, or services.
• Assisting with obtaining quotes from vendors
• Reviews purchase requisitions, and places orders with approved suppliers and follows up on all orders to ensure timely delivery.
• Uses websites to research and determine parts and material information
• General understanding of logistics and purchasing
• Inspecting and receiving materials and equipment
• Assist in preparing materials for shipment and storage
• Tracking material orders and shipments
• Advance use of computerized inventory system
• Complying with requirements to handle hazardous materials
• Utilizing MS Word and MS Excel to document material inventory for projects.
• Assisting with invoices to make sure they correspond with the appropriate purchases, transfers, and rental transactions.
• Assist with maintaining official vendor pricing records from year to year to track pricing fluctuations.

Experience: 2 Years of material tracking and logistics knowledge

Minimum Education: High School Diploma or GED

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and may meet eligibility requirements, including U.S. Citizenship, for access to classified information; eligibility for a DoD clearance is required. You must pass a background investigation. You must have a valid driver's license.

Abilities:

* Lifts at least 100 pounds at one time and 60 pounds for an extended period of time.

* Relocates a 12 foot stepladder without assistance.

* Works at various heights up to 60 feet and can climb and maintain balance on scaffolds, aerial lifts, catwalks and all types of ladders.

* Walks, climbs, lifts, squats, crawls, kneels, pushes, pulls and reaches overhead on a routine and repetitive basis.

* Possess good vision (may be corrected vision), the ability to see in color, and the ability to hear and communicate in English.

* May use a standard ladder without exceeding the weight limit while carrying tools.

* Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

* Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

* Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (including finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

* See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

* Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.