Buyer Ii

Fully proficient buyer responsible for initiating purchasing requests made by departments. Contacts vendors, and requests materials and follows-up to ensure delivery date and payments are made.

**Job Title: Buyer II**

**Reports To: Manager Purchasing SR**

**Position Summary**:Fully proficient buyer responsible for initiating purchasing requests made by departments. Contacts vendors, and requests materials and follows-up to ensure delivery date and payments are made.

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**
- Negotiates with vendors
- Maintains pricing data
- Resolves pricing discrepancies
- Generates return to vendor if delivery is incorrect
- Reviews freight bills
- Develops and maintains information to keep abreast of sources and prices
- Participates in an effective cost improvement and savings program for purchased materials and services.
- Maintains the integrity of purchasing data on the computer based planning system.
- Keeps abreast of procurement requirements and insures suppliers understand procurement priorities and meets delivery requirements.
- Pursues target costs with suppliers in an aggressive manner.
- Make substitution recommendations where savings in cost or better delivery can be realized.
- Obtain and analyze quotations on nonstandard items and continually audit prices of standard materials and supplies.
- Search New Vendors
- Generate Purchase Order
- Control of PO open in the system
- Requires employee to constantly type and use a computer and other office equipment, such as copier, printer, calendar, telephones, etc.

**Required Education**

**Preferred Education**
- Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university;
**Required Experience & Skills**

**Preferred Experience & Skills**
- Oracle preferred
- Eight to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experienc e

**Required Training & Certifications**

**Preferred Training & Certifications**

**Physical Demands **(Only use for shop, Field or operations job postings)(Place under Additional Requirements)
- Standard requirements: Bending, squatting, climbing, twisting and reaching will all be used occasionally in this position.
- Lifting 50 pounds maximum with frequent lifting.
- Requires employee to sit for at least 100% of the time
- Must be able to communicate and respond to coworkers, vendors, suppliers and emergency cues/alarms, in person and on the telephone, including use of mobile devices
- Must wear all required PPE, including fire-retardant clothing, helmets, face shields, hearing protection, safety goggles, steel-toed boots, as applicable.

Exterran Corporation (NYSE: EXTN) is a global systems and process company offering solutions in the oil, gas, water and power markets. We are a leader in natural gas processing and treatment, produced water treatment and compression products and services, providing critical midstream infrastructure solutions to customers throughout the world. Exterran Corporation is headquartered in Houston, Texas and operates in approximately 25 countries.

Exterran designs and commissions scalable solutions that quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively treat produced water for oil & gas production facilities. Our industry-leading technologies cover the full range of methods for removing oil, suspended and dissolved solids from produced water. We help clients achieve higher treatment efficiency, wider operating bands and lower capital and operational costs.