Power Up Your Career at Avail!
Avail Critical Power Solutions provides a full range of low voltage solutions to connect, protect, control, and measure a wide range of electrical applications. Our switchboards, switchgear, remote power panels (RPPs), and power distribution units (PDUs) increase the reliability and capability of our customers’ facilities across all major industries.

JOB SUMMARY
Our teams are innovative in their mission to build and service the equipment that powers infrastructure worldwide. Our mission is to bring innovation to life every day with visionaries like you.

As a Buyer, you will play a key role in the purchasing of the highest quality raw materials, parts, supplies and equipment at the lowest possible purchase cost for the manufacturing and distribution of switchboards and switchgear equipment.

Reporting directly to the Warehouse and Material Planning Supervisor, this position is based on site in Kewanee, IL.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Exciting Projects: Work on a variety of challenging and impactful projects.
• Career Growth: Opportunities to enhance your skills and advance your career through hands-on experience and professional development.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a team that values innovation, teamwork, and quality.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, health insurance, retirement plans, and work-life balance.

• Education: Minimum of bachelor’s degree required – preferably Business.
• Experience: 2 to 4 years of experience required. Or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Skills: Advanced interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills and strong organizational, time-management, and analytical skills.

• Develops and ensures all elements of the purchase commitment are completed with proper required approvals.
• Negotiate with dedicated providers according to policies to achieve the best contractual conditions while also ensuring internal customer satisfaction.
• Reviews requisitions for accuracy and completeness and prepares and processes assigned purchase orders.
• Monitors, reorders, and purchases items needed for inventory replenishment.
• Creates and reconciles reports to ensure accuracy of payables.
• Coordinates with vendors in accuracy on availability, price, and deliver of items.
• Expedites the delivery of purchases as necessary to achieve production and customer demands.

At Avail Infrastructure Solutions, we build and maintain the world's infrastructure. With our six business units, Enclosure Systems, Switchgear Systems, Bus Systems, Critical Power Systems, Rig-A-Lite, and WSI, we engineer and build custom solutions for our customers in the power generation, transmission, and distribution; data center; oil and gas; and industrial markets. Check out more information at Availinfra.com.

At Avail Infrastructure Solutions, we are more than a workforce – we are a force at work. We take pride in our craft and come together to ensure our pieces are all part of a bigger impactful picture – creating and servicing the infrastructure that powers the world!

Avail Infrastructure Solutions (including its subsidiaries) is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, nor any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.  Avail will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.