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Standard Nuclear is fueling America's nuclear renaissance at industrial scale, delivering essential building blocks for nuclear power. The Buyer is responsible for sourcing and purchasing technical components, equipment, materials, and services that support the company's engineering, manufacturing, and facility operations.
This role works closely with engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and vendors to understand requirements, identify qualified suppliers, obtain competitive quotes, and ensure purchases meet technical, schedule, quality, and commercial needs. The Buyer manages purchase orders from sourcing through delivery, helps resolve supplier and logistics issues, and supports cost and lead-time improvements across active projects and ongoing operations.
Key responsibilities include:
**Technical Purchasing & Sourcing:**
- Source components, equipment, materials, and services based on engineering, manufacturing, and operational requirements
- Review technical specifications, drawings, bills of materials, and purchase requests to understand sourcing needs
- Identify and evaluate suppliers capable of meeting technical, quality, schedule, and commercial requirements
- Obtain and evaluate quotes, lead times, pricing, commercial terms, and supplier capabilities
- Coordinate with engineering and quality to clarify requirements and support supplier selection decisions
**Purchase Order & Delivery Management:**
- Create, issue, and manage purchase orders from placement through delivery and closeout
- Track order status, supplier commitments, lead times, delivery dates, and open actions
- Follow up with suppliers to resolve delays, shortages, documentation gaps, quality concerns, or other order issues
- Maintain accurate purchasing records, supplier information, pricing, and delivery information in company systems
- Coordinate with receiving, warehouse, finance, and internal requestors to resolve delivery, invoice, or purchase order discrepancies
**Supplier, Cost & Lead-Time Management:**
- Monitor supplier performance and identify opportunities for cost and lead-time improvements
- Build and maintain supplier relationships and qualified supplier lists
The ideal candidate is organized, commercially minded, comfortable working with technical information, and able to manage multiple purchasing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
This role is based on-site at Standard Nuclear's Oak Ridge, TN nuclear fuel fabrication facility and involves work across office, warehouse, manufacturing, and technical support areas. The position requires regular interaction with suppliers, engineering, manufacturing, quality, warehouse, finance, and other internal teams. Work may involve reviewing technical documentation, coordinating material and equipment deliveries, entering manufacturing support areas, and using required PPE. Adherence to site safety, quality, radiological, security, contamination control, and operational procedures is expected.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to conform to U.S. Government export regulations.
**Requirements:**
No specific experience, education, or certification requirements are stated in the provided excerpt.
