
Buyer II
Richmond, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Buyer II ensures an uninterrupted supply of quality materials while meeting cost, inventory, and supplier-management goals. The role coordinates procurement of goods and services, generates purchase orders for scheduled production, and coordinates materials and production to meet customer demand. It maintains supplier relationships and monitors inventory and open purchase orders in a time-urgent environment.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
2 - 3 years
Minimum Education Required
Associates Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
Job Description
EnerSys is a global leader in stored energy solutions helping industrial, infrastructure and defense customers address critical power and operational needs. The company delivers integrated solutions that combine energy storage technologies, power electronics, software-enabled intelligence, technical expertise and comprehensive global customer support. EnerSys supports customers across communications networks, data centers, energy infrastructure, material handling, transportation, aerospace and defense - including applications where power continuity is essential. Serving customers in more than 100 countries, EnerSys helps organizations manage energy more reliably, efficiently and intelligently in complex operating environments where uptime, safety and resilience matter.
Supporting Critical Operations Through Three Specialized Business Platforms:
Network & Infrastructure Solutions (NIS) - Powering the connected world with trusted reserve power and critical infrastructure solutions.
Industrial Mobility Solutions (IMS) - Powering industrial vehicles and equipment that keep essential goods and industries moving around the world.
Precision Power Solutions (PPS) - Powering advanced, reliable, high-performance solutions for defense, aerospace, and specialized applications.
Job Purpose
The Buyer II ensures an uninterrupted supply of quality materials that meet targets for cost, inventory, and supplier management goals. Coordinate's activities involved with procuring goods and services, such as raw materials, equipment, tools, parts, supplies, and advertising, in a timely and cost-effective manner. Maintains professional relationships with vendors, production personnel, and corporate purchasing representative in a time urgent, demanding position. Generates purchase orders to support scheduled production activities; coordinates materials and production to meet customer demand.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Maintain accuracy in BaaN for demand and item master.
Adheres to purchasing policies, processes and procedures.
Uses knowledge of material planning and engineering processes and procedures to coordinate
product deliveries.
Maintain proper inventory levels for each part at all times in order to fill customer orders.
Identify part shortages and expedite.
Maintains strategic relationships with suppliers.
Constantly monitor inventory levels, production scheduling demand and execute to the MRP or BaaN
exception messages.
Verify demand, generate purchase orders, and compare standard cost to the actual pricing.
Plans and analyses inventory levels by verifying available on hand stock.
Generate system purchase orders and verify confirmation from.
Expedites material from suppliers to meet the customer needs.
Verifies receipt of items by comparing items received to items ordered and resolves shipment
discrepancies from suppliers.
Manages optimal inventory levels and develops a "plan for every part" to increase material
availability and increase inventory turns.
Maintains Purchase Order information accessible by sorting and filing documents by supplier and
date.
Develops / Implements an efficient and accurate system for monitoring all Open Purchase Orders.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Minimum Qualifications
Must have an Associate degree in Business or related field from an accredited institution and minimum of (2) three years of work experience in Purchasing and/or Material Planning Management (preferably in manufacturing)
-OR-
Must have a minimum (6) six years of direct Purchasing experience in a manufacturing setting.
General Job Requirements
This position will work in an office setting, expect minimal physical demands.
EnerSys provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to r ace, color, r eligion, age, s ex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, s exual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
A32CDB83-248F-4
How this job compares
Set against the 5,290 open Procurement jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- US median$25–34/hr368 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is 75% below the US median midpoint ($29/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Procurement hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 56 open Procurement jobs in Kentucky and 5,290 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Lockheed Martin5 open
- Parker Hannifin Corporation5 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Procurement postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 4,183 postings).
- Education
- 2,332 of the 5,290 open Procurement jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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