Buyer

Description

Ready to take your supply chain career beyond traditional purchasing?

At ABEC, our Buyers help bring complex, custom-engineered biopharmaceutical manufacturing systems to life. You’ll work closely with Engineering, Project Management, Manufacturing, Quality, and Global Supply Chain to source specialized components, solve technical challenges, and keep critical projects moving.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys the intersection of engineering, procurement, supplier relationships, and problem-solving.

What You’ll Do

• Procure custom mechanical, electrical, fabricated, and bioprocess components.
• Review engineering drawings, BOMs, P&IDs, schematics, and technical specifications to ensure supplier quotes meet project requirements.
• Partner with Engineering to resolve technical questions, specification changes, and sourcing challenges.
• Evaluate suppliers based on technical capabilities, quality, cost, capacity, and lead times.
• Negotiate pricing, delivery schedules, payment terms, and other commercial conditions.
• Track critical and long-lead items and proactively communicate project risks.
• Work with suppliers, Quality, and Receiving to resolve material and documentation issues.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across ABEC’s Global Supply Chain.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management with a technical focus, or a related field.
• 1 to 5 years of procurement experience, including relevant internships, in technical manufacturing, biotechnology, industrial equipment, or a similar environment.
• Ability to interpret drawings, schematics, P&IDs, BOMs, and technical specifications.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems, with Infor SyteLine/CSI a plus.
• Strong Excel, analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• A collaborative, curious mindset and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced technical environment.

Why ABEC?

This isn’t purchasing from a catalog. You’ll collaborate with engineers and technical suppliers, gain exposure to sophisticated biopharmaceutical equipment, and build valuable experience across engineering, procurement, supplier management, and global supply chain.

Bring your technical curiosity and problem-solving mindset to ABEC and help turn innovative engineering designs into solutions that support biopharmaceutical manufacturing around the world.

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Company Background:

ABEC is a leading supplier to the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. ABEC's unique value is based on combining long experience with the ability to engineer, design, manufacture, commission, qualify, and service the entire bioprocess to reduce overall cost, shorten time to market, and maximize productivity. ABEC's products include process and equipment engineering/consulting services, comprehensive site services, bioreactors and fermenters, filtration and chromatography systems, prep and hold systems, and cleaning/sterilization systems. 

Benefits include:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance (benefits start day 1)
• Company paid life insurance
• 3 weeks paid vacation
• 10 paid holidays
• Generous 401K plan (40% match)
• College tuition benefit program
• Employee Referral Program