Purchasing Clerk

Company Description

ARA is a C5ISR company that designs, manufactures, tests and installs cutting edge antenna technologies to keep our joint forces secure, superior and safe. We create and deliver a vast array of products for both military and civilian applications that combine innovative discoveries from companies we’ve acquired, including SI2 Technologies and AQYR, whose technologies complement and enhance our trusted systems. Our capabilities span from Electronic Warfare and Military Communications to Radar and Satellite Systems. For more than 60 years, ARA has provided our military with unparalleled information, improved situational awareness, immediate threat detection and precision targeting.

From ideation to installation, ARA supplies unique antenna systems in both high-volume and smaller quantities to meet our customers’ needs and ensure success. Our US locations have fully staffed outdoor antenna test ranges, engineers, and on-site manufacturing lines and machine shops.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly motivated Purchasing Clerk in our Laurel, MD facility, who provides office support to the Purchasing Department with a variety of clerical activities and related tasks. The Purchasing Clerk will be responsible for data entry, creating and generating purchase orders. The Purchasing Clerk aids in the coordination between the planning team, production team, and warehouse team regarding open orders and delivery statuses. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Perform data, entry, tracking issues with specific vendors and communicating with buyers.
• Process reminders and order confirmations.
• Preparation and processing of purchase orders and corresponding documents in accordance with company procedures.
• Coordinate with suppliers and internal departments to ensure on-time delivery.
• Responsible to track POs for full receipt over time and follow-up with incomplete or missing orders
• Complete various projects thoroughly by assigned deadline.
• Order supplies for office.
• Determine cause of any delays En-route and report to manager.
• Ability to interface with vendors and clients.
• Filing and Scanning of Purchase Order documents accordingly.
• Maintain complete and updated open Purchase Order reports.
• Maintain a neat, organized work area.

Position Qualifications

Competency Statement(s)

• Adaptability - Adapts to change, open to new ideas and responsibilities.
• Communication – Ability to speak, write, and interact with others.
• Ethics - Honest, accountable, maintains confidentiality. 
• Initiative – Ability to take on task before being asked.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve products/services.

Experience and Skills

• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• 2 years of administrative and/or customer service experience required.
• Procurement experience is a definite plus, but not essential.
• Flexibility- ability to adapt and respond to changing tasks and responsibilities. 
• Experience in DelTek CostPoint Purchasing Modules a plus, but not essential.
• Intermediate Excel Skill and additional Computer Skills (Microsoft Suite- Word, Power Point etc.)

Education

• High School Diploma or G.E.D required.

Antenna Research Associates, Inc. and its subsidiaries encourage diversity in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran