Procurement Specialist 2

Procurement Specialist 2

The Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) provides quality water supply, water pollution control, mapping, and household hazardous waste collection to eight member municipalities : Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, Newington, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor. Additionally, the MDC provides drinking water to portions of Farmington, Glastonbury, East Granby and South Windsor, known as the MDC's non-member towns.

Job Summary

The purpose of this classification is to plan, coordinate, and perform responsible work related to the District's procurement programs and operations. Work involves planning, coordinating, and performing technical and complex procurement activities for District commodities, labor contracts, and plain materials contracts in accordance with laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, and other requirements governing procurement. Responsibilities include creating purchase orders and contract documents, drafting sole source procurement documentation, sourcing vendor requirements, and administering the District's Purchase Card Program.

Essential Functions

• Plans, administers and performs technical and complex procurement activities for public works material, labor contracts, and plain materials contracts.
• Plans, coordinates, and performs technical and complex procurement activities in accordance with laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, and other requirements governing District procurement.
• Administers the District's Purchase Card Program to include maintenance of the on-line reconciliation system, monitoring budget reconciliations on a monthly basis. Trains program card holders, approvers, and department custodians.
• Researches vendor sourcing alternatives including State, Federal, or other Municipal ordering cooperatives and contracts.
• Reviews and analyzes complex solicitations, budgetary estimates and price proposals from vendors and subcontractors in accordance with the District's Charter and bylaws to determine reasonableness of process and proposal terms and conditions.
• Processes revenue contracts such as timber sales.
• Reviews and drafts purchase orders in SAP, ensuring accuracy and compliance with procurement policies and procedures.
• Administers procurement contracts; monitors contractor performance; and ensures contract specifications are met.
• Establishes and maintains procurement files, records, lists, documentation and databases; reviews records and reports prepared by subordinates; compiles information; maintains procurement activity reports; and prepares operational and statistical reports.
• Attends seminars and trade fairs to keep abreast of trends, new developments, and new products; develops and researches new and alternative sources of supply.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Supervision Received

Works under the general direction of the Manager or Director of Procurement.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in business administration, or a related field; supplemented by a minimum of four (4) years previous experience and / or training that includes procuring goods and services, supervising staff, administering a p-card program, and purchasing contracts; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job. Work experience and skills related to the Procure-to-Pay process involving purchase orders, purchasing administration of the P-Card Program, vendor support and higher-level procurement administrative duties a plus. Experience utilizing SAP or other ERP purchasing system a plus.

Special Requirements

Must have a valid driver's license.

Performance Aptitudes

Data Utilization : Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, strategize, and / or correlate data and / or information. Includes exercise of judgment in determining time, place and / or sequence of operations. Includes referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components.

Human Interaction : Requires the ability to apply principles of persuasion and / or influence over others in coordinating activities of a project, program, or designated area of responsibility; and to apply principles of persuasion and / or influence over others in a supervisory capacity.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization : Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and / or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and / or materials used in performing essential functions.

Verbal Aptitude : Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and / or advisory data and information.

Mathematical Aptitude : Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; and may require ability to utilize principles of fractions and / or interpret graphs.

Functional Reasoning : Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.

Situational Reasoning : Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

ADA Compliance

Physical Ability : Tasks involve the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and / or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (5-10 pounds). Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.

Sensory Requirements : Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate visual and / or auditory cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

Environmental Factors : Tasks are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions.

The MDC seeks to enhance the diversity of its workforce. People of color, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. The selected candidate will undergo an internal background check.