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Billerica, MAFull-time$78–104K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$78–104K/yr
Location
Billerica, MA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
US work authorization required

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Job overview

Teledyne FLIR Defense is seeking a Senior Buyer/Planner for its Billerica operation, a manufacturer of surveillance systems. The role purchases goods, materials, and components to meet cost, quality, and delivery targets. It works with suppliers and production teams, manages purchasing and production orders, tracks delivery schedules, and supports cost analysis and reduction. The posting seeks five or more years of relevant experience and familiarity with sourcing precision-machined parts.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

SAP, nice to haveMicrosoft Office, requiredSourcing, requiredProblem Solving, requiredTime Management, requiredMultitasking, requiredAnalytical Skills, requiredCommunication, requiredPrecision Machining Sourcing, requiredMachining Methods, requiredInjection Molding, requiredOptical Components Sourcing, requiredNegotiation, requiredOrganization, requiredTeamwork, requiredInterpersonal Skills, required

Qualifications

High School Degree or GED, requiredBachelor's Degree, nice to have5+ Years Relevant Experience, required2+ Years Precision Parts Sourcing, requiredHigh-Tech Manufacturing Experience, nice to haveU.S. Citizen, National, Permanent Resident, Asylee, Refugee, or Export License Eligibility, required

Full job description

US - Billerica, MA

Full time

REQ37648

Be visionary

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting-edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors, unmanned air and ground vehicles, sensing devices used to detect chemicals, biological agents, radiation and explosives, and a host of other solutions that help warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams do their jobs better.

We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense and Public Safety industries. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on solutions that can change the battlefield and save lives, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.

#AnyThreatAnywhere

Job Summary:

The Teledyne FLIR Billerica operation is a leading manufacturer of Surveillance Systems. Our products are vital components in the defense, high end commercial, and commercial industries. We are looking for a highly organized and motivated Senior Buyer/Planner to join the Materials department. The Senior Buyer/Planner will purchase goods, materials, and components in

line with specified cost, quality and delivery targets.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Source components with approved suppliers for production

  • Work with suppliers on scheduling to support production requirements

  • Generate Purchase Orders & Requisitions for open requirements

  • Work with suppliers with on time delivery, quality and cost objectives

  • Provide analysis of costing against cost targets

  • Perform cost reduction activities in order to maintain budgets and/or reduce costs

  • Prepare reports and updates as needed

  • Resolve shipment and invoice discrepancies

  • Create production orders through the production cycle

  • Work closely with Sr. Planner to evaluate production for assigned products

  • Evaluate and track completion dates for completed systems to maintain on-time customer deliveries

  • Ensure accuracy of data in SAP and data entry as required

  • Assist in shipping and/or receiving functions as a secondary activity

Job Qualifications:

  • High School Degree/GED required, BA or BS degree preferred.

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in either a buyer/planner role or a procurement/materials sourcing role

  • SAP experience preferred, strong working knowledge of MS Office

  • Problem solving skills in relation to sourcing issues in order to support production requirements

  • Strong time management skills and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

  • Professional and team-based approach to problem solving with strong analytical and communication skills.

  • Experience in a high tech manufacturing environment strongly preferred.

  • 2+ years of experience sourcing precision machined parts and familiarity with different machining methods (CNC, mill, lathe, swiss, turning and machining suppliers)

  • Familiarity with injection molding, and sourcing optical components

  • Strong communication, negotiating, organizational skills

  • Self-motivated, ability to work both independently and within a team

  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and strong interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with people professionally

Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

#FLIR

Salary Range:

$77,900.00-$103,800.000

The anticipated salary range listed for this role is only an estimate. Actual compensation for successful candidates is carefully determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, local regulations (such as minimum wage), education/training, work experience, key skills, and type of position.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.

You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day .

Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,109 open Buyer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$78–104K/yr
  • Massachusetts median$70–100K/yr25 salary ranges
  • US median$74–100K/yr501 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $91K, is close to the Massachusetts median midpoint ($91K) — in the middle half of Buyer salary ranges in Massachusetts.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 41 open Buyer jobs in Massachusetts and 1,109 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Massachusetts
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Buyer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (816 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 450 of the 1,109 open Buyer jobs (41%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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