A well-established construction company is seeking a construction buyer to join their team in Verulam, Durban.
Job responsibilities:
- Sourcing, negotiating and finalizing all orders relating to the purchase of direct and indirect materials for construction operations, and contracts management;
- Work according to construction programme;
- Create procurement schedules ;
- Providing prices for all materials included in project plans and drawings;
- Identifying potential suppliers and new products;
- Contacting a range of suppliers and sub‐contractors to obtain quotations and agree delivery times;
- Keeping detailed records and maintaining a well‐organised work schedule;
- Assessing the reliability of sub‐contractors and suppliers;
- Dealing effectively with challenges with suppliers and the flow of materials;
- Ensuring compliance with the safety, health and environment requirements of materials and services;
- Providing advice to the project estimator on the predicted cost of individual items;
- Liaising closely with the estimator at the tendering stage to ensure that an accurate project cost is provided;
- Preparing and maintaining cost reports in order to maximise efficiency within the business;
- Negotiating and agreeing the most favourable terms possible with suppliers once a contract has been secured.
Job requirements:
- An ability to deliver the highest standards of service to our clients.
- Matric with construction buying experience.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in construction projects/built environment buying
- An ability to achieve demanding time and quality targets.
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
- Good IT skills with competency at Microsoft Word and Excel, Pastel.
- To have good spoken and written communication skills
- To be methodical, pay attention to detail and be accurate
- To be good at working with people at all levels and willing to work in a team.
- To be self motivated with ability to work on own initiative
- To be able to co-ordinate a number of different projects at the same time.
- To be willing to accept responsibility for completing designated tasks.
Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
About company:
CV Projects SA is a full service construction company specializing in Building Construction, Civil Works, Interior Fit-Outs, Refurbishments, Joinery and Shopfitting with a CIDB grading of 7GBPE and Civil Works 7CEPE.
