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/

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.

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.

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.

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

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