What is the Opportunity?

At Ovivo, we offer you the opportunity to expand your skills and professional experience while collaborating with worldwide experts in water treatment. As a Buyer/Planner, you will be responsible for quoting, purchasing, planning, and expediting assigned products or commodities for Sedimentation. This includes soliciting possible vendors, ensuring supplier service and product quality.

Joining Ovivo means being part of a global team of innovative and passionate professionals who are committed to preserving water, our planet's most critical resource. It also means combining our efforts and talents towards a more sustainable future - together.

The role is based in our Salt Lake City location and will work on a hybrid (WFH/In-Office) full time schedule.

What is the role?

• Receiving requests for quote and replying in timely matter
• Placing purchase orders based upon requisitions/MRP notification and entering orders into the computer
• Planning jobs including breaking down a bill of material and building it the MRP system
• Bidding product lines to ensure most competitive pricing and delivery, while maintaining quality
• Expediting purchase orders, ensuring supplier deliveries are on time and that all generated reports reflect current and accurate dates and information.
• Ensuring that all delivered commodities meet company standards and are of good quality and negotiating with suppliers on replacement of materials not conforming to company.
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, listen, handle, feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is also occasionally required to stand. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 15 lbs. and occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Does this sound like you?

• Minimum of 3 years of related experience
• Minimum 2 years post-secondary education from an accredited college or university
• Experience with ERP's and other software/systems (MS Office, Adobe, etc).
• Basic math and writing skills.
• Must be detail oriented to keep track of parts and orders that have been placed
• Ability to follow-through to make sure orders arrive at their destination
• Working history with and use of directing material movement, logistics, at best practice for time and low cost
• Mechanical/technical aptitude
• Advanced level of oral and written communication
• Ability to follow accounting best practices to make informed decisions

Don't meet every single requirement? If you carry a strong sense of ownership and teamwork in everything you do, we'd like to hear from you any way.

Why work at Ovivo?

• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• 401k Match
• Company paid life insurance along with company paid short and long-term disability
• 11 paid holidays
• Three weeks of PTO to start (hire date determines number of PTO hours for the first year)
• Roll over of 40 PTO hours to the following year
• Sixteen personal hours (hire date determines number of personal hours for the first year)
• Days off between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day - paid by the company with no impact to PTO balance.
• Profit sharing

At Ovivo we are committed to providing working environments where everyone is included and treated fairly and with respect.

Dive in - Apply Today! Let's change the future of water together.

About Ovivo

Ovivo is a global provider of equipment, technology, and systems producing among the purest water and treating some of the most challenging wastewater in the industry. Ovivo is a powerful global brand with renowned trademarks, possessing more than 150 years of expertise and references in water treatment, supported by its proprietary products, advanced technologies, and extensive system integration knowhow. Ovivo delivers conventional to highly technological water treatment solutions for the industrial and municipal markets and leverages its large installed base of equipment around the world to offer parts and services to its customers. Ovivo is dedicated to innovation in an industry that is in constant evolution and offers water treatment solutions that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and environmentally sustainable.

Visit our website to learn more about Ovivo: https://careers.ovivowater.com/