Buyer / Procurement Specialist

Who We Are

PCI is a small, high-performing team with a big mission: to become a global leader in precise, high-performance composite products. Based in Toronto, our 28,000-square-foot facility is where ideas take shape, featuring advanced manufacturing capabilities, a 3,000-square-foot clean room, and a commitment to quality that exceeds industry standards. We are AS9100 Rev D and ISO 9001:2015 certified, ensuring excellence in everything we create.

Visit our website: <https://www.gopci.ca/>

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What We Value

At PCI, we live by the PCI PACT:

Performance, Accountability, Collaboration, and Trust.

These values guide everything we do, driving innovation, fostering teamwork, and maintaining the highest standards in our work.

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Why PCI?

When opportunities arise, here's what you can expect from joining our team:

• Work on groundbreaking projects shaping the future of sea, air, and space technology
• Be part of a dynamic, supportive environment where innovation thrives
• Collaborate with a team dedicated to excellence and pushing the limits of composite manufacturing

If you're looking for a company where your skills and ideas can make an impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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Job Purpose

The Buyer / Procurement Specialist keeps PCI's projects supplied with the right materials at the right time and the right price, while building vendor relationships that hold up under a tight schedule. The role owns purchasing, vendor management, and inventory cost visibility, and looks for ways to use modern tools, including AI-assisted approaches, to make purchasing and inventory administration faster and more accurate without losing PCI's relationship-first way of working with suppliers.

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Duties and Responsibilities

Other duties may be assigned.

Purchasing and Sourcing

• Plan and purchase materials necessary to support successful execution of PCI's projects
• Support the quoting process via RFQs to vendors, working with the quoting team to source appropriate materials
• Review quotes to determine suppliers offering the best combination of quality and price
• Complete purchase orders per AS9100 requirements and PCI internal processes, ensuring quality requirements are understood and passed to vendors

Vendor and Supplier Relationships

• Build and maintain strong, trustworthy relationships with existing and potential vendors
• Perform periodic analysis of vendor performance and work with QA via PCI's vendor approval process
• Resolve order issues, delays, and discrepancies directly with vendors while protecting the relationship

Inventory, Cost, and Budgeting

• Review inventory at regular intervals to ensure stock levels in PCI's systems are accurate and adequate
• Track project-related material costs and support cash flow visibility and project budgeting
• Track status of orders and resolve purchase order errors as required

Systems and Process Optimization

• Identify opportunities to use AI-assisted tools and process improvements to streamline purchasing and inventory administration
• Lead improvements in purchasing, inventory, and logistics processes
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date records across PCI's systems

Required Skills, Abilities and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, or a related field
• 3 to 5 years of experience in purchasing, procurement, or supply chain, ideally in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems required; familiarity with ProShop ERP is an asset
• Comfort with AI-assisted tools and genuine interest in using them to improve purchasing and administrative workflows
• Strong communicator, comfortable building and maintaining vendor relationships at all levels
• Solid understanding of cash flow and project budgeting as they relate to purchasing decisions
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the Microsoft suite
• Experience with AS9100 or ISO considered an asset
• Knowledge of, or keen interest to learn, composites materials as they relate to project requirements
• Awareness of and commitment to product safety, counterfeit parts prevention, ethical conduct, and personal contribution to product quality and safety in accordance with AS9100 Rev D
• Continuing education supported by PCI upon approval

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Working Conditions

Other conditions include:

• Ability to work flexible hours and occasional overtime based on purchasing and project schedules
• Sit for long periods of time at a desk. Occasional use of hands to handle materials or samples during shop floor visits
• Occasional time in a dirty, dusty manufacturing environment when supporting receiving, inspection, or vendor issues on the shop floor (PPE provided)

Physical Requirements

Buyers / Procurement Specialists must have the following abilities:

• Sit for prolonged periods
• Occasionally lift, push, or pull up to 25 pounds when handling samples or materials on the shop floor