Junior Buyer

Vista Projects is an integrated industrial engineering firm that helps clients navigate the digital transformation of their projects and operations. Our proven project execution process is based on a single source of truth model that eliminates the potential for inefficient engineering designs cost overruns and project completion delays.

We believe the world needs industrial projects and that intelligent engineering data can increase the likelihood of innovative solutions getting to market. Over the years our multi-discipline teams have conceptualized and designed some of the most challenging and successful industrial processing projects in the North American energy sector. Vista has established itself as a trusted industrial engineering partner for all types of projects from conceptual studies and pilots to large-scale commercial expansions.

The benefits of our approach apply to new asset developments and brownfield optimization projects across several industrial markets. This includes biofuels and produced water treatment to natural gas and petrochemical processing. While we are headquartered in Calgary and maintain a satellite office in Houston.

The Junior Buyer is responsible for performing procurement activities to ensure the timely purchase of materials and equipment to meet project requirements. Duties include:

• Working within a project team environment potentially on multiple projects
• Ensuring timely and cost-effective procurement while adhering to client requirements and proper procurement practices
• Updating purchasing and expediting milestone dates in the procurement software
• Preparing issuing and evaluating standard procurement documentsincluding bid lists request for quotation and commercial bid evaluations
• Purchasing electrical instrumentation and piping commodity materials and equipment
• Executing appropriate bidding strategies
• Creating and issuing purchase orders for materials
• Assisting in the negotiation of progress payments
• Developing and managing vendor/contractor relationships
• Assisting with expediting as required
• Performing other duties as requested
• Closing purchase orders
• Communicating with suppliers to resolve issues affecting a purchase order
• Attending status meetings with suppliers
• Reviewing material and service invoices for accuracy
• Coordinating transportation and logistics as required

• Post-secondary certification or equivalent
• Recent graduates will be considered
• Open to Canadian residents only

Working with Vista is a chance to contribute to the typeof challenging municipal and industrial projects that the world requires. If that doesnt excite you this role likely wont be a fit.

Challenging projects require focus and we enable our people to do their best work with modernized project systems that are based on our leading use of intelligent data-centric execution architecture. Our staff and clients like that it gives them real-time access to validated data shared across all project departments. This fosters project design and business decisions based on a single authoritative source of truth and provides increased transparency and collaboration with team members and clients leading to improved engineering quality and a product we can all take pride in.

An opportunity with Vista is not just a job; it is a chance to tackle challenging projects with colleagues who are among the most recognized and accomplished in their disciplines.

Vista offers all employees

• A stimulating fast-paced and challenging work environment where you will contribute to the interesting municipal and industrial engineering projects
• A robust and consistent recruitment process that ensures your colleagues are likeminded and comparably capable
• An opportunity to be a part of an entrepreneurial technically skilled team which has established leadership in innovative engineering solutions
• A strong value-based philosophy that provides an informal close-knit team environment where you and your family feel like a part of our organization and not just an employee number
• Competitive compensation and benefits including a performance-linked variable pay program
• Company-sponsored social events and team sports
• Flexible work schedules half-day Fridays and free parking
• An organization that values and encourages diversity

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