Purchasing Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Us
We are a manufacturing company known for designing, producing, and servicing high-quality machinery. As we grow, we need a Purchasing Manager who can take ownership of day-to-day procurement, keep production supplied with the right parts and materials, and maintain strong vendor relationships with our key suppliers and machine shops.

Position Overview
This role is hands-on and focused on the shop floor. The Purchasing Manager will handle purchasing of raw materials, machined components, and outside services, ensuring parts are sourced accurately and delivered on time. Success in this role comes from knowing how to work closely with machine shops, read prints, and understand machining processes so that suppliers are held accountable for cost, quality, and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Source, purchase, and track raw materials, machined parts, and outside services to keep production running smoothly.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with local and regional machine shops and fabricators.
• Review engineering drawings/prints and understand machining requirements to quote, order, and verify supplier capability.
• Negotiate pricing, lead times, and terms with suppliers while balancing cost and quality.
• Monitor part availability, delivery schedules, and resolve any supplier delays or quality issues quickly.
• Work closely with production and engineering teams on part requirements, design changes, and urgent needs.
• Maintain accurate purchasing records, POs, and supplier performance data.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings, improved lead times, and stronger supplier partnerships.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of purchasing or procurement experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Direct experience buying machined parts and working with machine shops is required.
• Ability to read engineering prints and understand machining processes.
• Strong negotiation and vendor management skills.
• Hands-on approach — willing to be on the shop floor, review parts, and work side by side with production teams.
• Good organizational and communication skills, with attention to detail.
• Familiarity with MRP/ERP systems preferred.

What We Offer

• Competitive pay with performance-based incentives.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) with company contribution.
• Opportunity to play a key role in keeping a growing manufacturing company running efficiently.
• Team-oriented environment where your input makes a direct impact.

Company Description

Dallas Industries has been successfully nurturing innovation for generations, creating flexible press feeding and coil handling systems for over 50 years. During the initial years, Dallas produced state-of-the-art air feed equipment. Soon thereafter, began developing an innovative new technology — servo driven press feed systems. Over time, the product line came to include a variety of coil straightening and handling equipment.

Today our products include both air feeds and servo feeds, pull-thru and powered straighteners, single and double end coil reels, load cars, coil cradles, threading tables, coil threading/restricting devices plus a host of other options. We design, manufacture, and service many innovative and flexible systems.

Company Description

Dallas Industries has been successfully nurturing innovation for generations, creating flexible press feeding and coil handling systems for over 50 years. During the initial years, Dallas produced state-of-the-art air feed equipment. Soon thereafter, began developing an innovative new technology — servo driven press feed systems. Over time, the product line came to include a variety of coil straightening and handling equipment.\r\n\r\nToday our products include both air feeds and servo feeds, pull-thru and powered straighteners, single and double end coil reels, load cars, coil cradles, threading tables, coil threading/restricting devices plus a host of other options. We design, manufacture, and service many innovative and flexible systems.