Buyer Job at City of El Paso, TX

City of El Paso, TX El Paso, TX

$38,170 - $65,590 a year
Requirements

MOS Code: None


Education and Experience: An Associate's degree or higher in business or public administration or related field and three (3) years of administrative support experience.

Licenses and Certificates: None.

General Purpose

Under direction, procure goods and services, locate competitive sources and prices for products and services.

Typical Duties

Oversee informal bid and noncompetitive forms of contracts within predefined limits. This may include contracting through sole source, procurement programs such as QISV, and through interlocal agreements. Involves: Communicate with customers, vendors, suppliers, co-workers and management to locate competitive sources and prices for products or services listed on requisitions. Develop procurement specifications including due dates, terms and conditions and other information. Select appropriate supplier markets. Issue bid package. Perform or review bid tabulations. Develop cost and price analyses. Coordinate and conduct pre-bid or post-bid conferences and on-site department visits. Answer questions. Notify successful bidder and award contract. Evaluate supplier performance.

Assist departments in ordering and obtaining a variety of supplies, products and services. Involves: Assist departments in utilizing computerized requisition and purchasing system. Review requisitions and issue purchase orders. Research supplier and vendor information. Maintain contract lists and master specifications for repetitive commodities and informal bid files. Draft procurement correspondence such as specifications, terms and conditions and other communication.

Represent the department and provide technical support and information. Involves: Respond to requests for information on purchasing policies and procedures. Establish and maintain appropriate business relationships with suppliers by interviewing and learning about commodities or services provided. Inform suppliers of purchasing policies and procedures on doing business with the city, bidding process and related information. Create and maintain a variety of computerized records or reports such as vendor lists, inventory files and reports, financial reports or records and status reports. Oversee procurement card system, if assigned.
Other duties as assigned.

General Information


Test Date: To be announced

Note: Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. This position will close when a preset number of qualified applications have been received.

Note: This is a new advertisement for Buyer. You must apply if you are still interested in this position.

Note: Applicants with a foreign degree must have all relevant documents translated and evaluated by a College, University, or Credentials Evaluation Services Department prior to submitting them to the Human Resources Department.

A resume and/or other documents will not be accepted in lieu of a completed application.
Comments such as "See resume" are not acceptable and will result in the application being considered incomplete.

To qualify for this position, required education, experience, knowledge and skills must be clearly stated on your application's employment history. We do not use any information on your resume to review if you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.

Failure to fully detail all experience and job duties in the application, or copying/pasting directly from the job specification, or responses referring to your resume will eliminate you from consideration for the position.




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