About the role
Build an Aviation Career You’re Proud Of
At StandardAero, we use our ingenuity and know-how to find solutions for the simple to the most complex challenges in aviation. Together, we get the job done and done well. Our stability, resources, and respectful culture supports you in building a solid career with a great team you can count on day in and day out for the long term.
As a Senior Buyer, you’ll be responsible for managing critical and high-value spend, supplier relationships, sourcing strategies, purchase order execution, supplier performance, and procurement process improvement. This position supports purchasing activities across operational BOM materials, OSV/repair requirements, specialty materials, NPI, shop and maintenance supplies, capital equipment, and administrative/indirect spend. You’ll execute sourcing strategies that optimize cost, quality, delivery, inventory, supplier risk, and operational continuity. The Senior Buyer partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Program Management, and site leadership to ensure material availability while maintaining strong commercial, operational, and internal-control discipline.
What you’ll do:
Manage purchase orders to achieve required lead times, cost, quality, material availability, and operational objectives.
Monitor open orders, supplier commitments, past-due requirements, changing priorities, material shortages, extended lead times, supplier delays, and potential AOG requirements.
Ensure purchase order changes are properly documented, approved, communicated, and compliant with procurement procedures and internal controls.
Establish appropriate follow-up and escalation processes for critical and past-due purchase orders to minimize supply disruptions.
Optimize inventory levels through effective min/max parameters, safety stock, reorder points, order quantities, lead times, and supplier strategies.
Execute sourcing strategies for assigned commodities, suppliers, and spend categories, including RFQs, competitive bidding, supplier benchmarking, commercial evaluations, negotiations, and supplier selection.
Evaluate supplier proposals using total cost of ownership, including pri…
