Purchasing Coordinator

Details: For over 25 years, one Company has represented quality & leadership – Highland Homes – where building careers goes hand in hand with excellence in new home construction.  Highland’s employees thrive in an atmosphere of appreciation & confidence, contributing their unique ideas to the Company’s overall success.  Our employees are our greatest asset. Highland Homes is currently accepting resumes for a Purchasing Coordinator position. A Bachelor's degree in Construction Management or a related field is required. The selected candidate will also have a minimum of one year Purchasing or Construction experience. This position will be responsible for supporting construction personnel in all purchasing and budgeting activities. The selected candidate will coordinate these processes with Sales, Operations, Accounting and vendors. Job Duties and Responsibilities: Establish and maintain labor and material costs for all plan options and option catalog items.   Create initial work orders and purchase orders for all construction starts via the preliminary purchasing report (PPR) with budgets customized for the appropriate exit strategy information. Verify margin on PPR is consistent with program outline and review any exceptions with manager.   Coordinate cost establishment process between the field and vendors to achieve the goals of having budgets entered and checked for accuracy within two weeks for plan revisions and four weeks for new plans.   Process all requests from the field for extra material by entering and creating short order PO’s (SOPO’s) and expedite the receipt of material by communication with vendors by e-mail/ “Buzzsaw".   Process change orders requested by the field, creating the appropriate budgets and copy confirmation back to the Project Manager.   Research and resolve all problem invoices with the goal of reducing problems by improving accuracy of takeoffs and orders and/or training vendors in working within our system.   Assist managers in analyzing changes in costs from month to month by keeping track of takeoff revisions, price changes, and labor budget changes. Enter updated sales prices from monthly program outlines for calculation of soft cost budgets.  Other duties as requested (i.e. backing up Purchasing Coordinators, answering phones etc.).

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