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Procurement Specialist

Flowserve Corporation

  • Hastings, Nebraska
  • 9 days ago

    Highlights

    As a Procurement Specialist, you will play a critical role in supporting Flowserve's supply chain and manufacturing operations by sourcing engineered components and services that meet quality, delivery, and cost objectives. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure material availability, improve profitability, and drive on-time delivery for customers around the world.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationHastings, Nebraska
    IndustryEngineering Services
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1997

    Description

    Your Role and Impact

    As a Procurement Specialist, you will play a critical role in supporting Flowserve's supply chain and manufacturing operations by sourcing engineered components and services that meet quality, delivery, and cost objectives. This position provides the opportunity to influence supplier performance, support commercial success, and contribute to operational excellence through strategic purchasing and supplier relationship management. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure material availability, improve profitability, and drive on-time delivery for customers around the world.

    Key Responsibilities

    • Execute purchasing activities to ensure timely procurement of materials and services required to support manufacturing operations and customer projects.
    • Negotiate pricing, commercial terms, and delivery schedules to optimize cost, quality, and supplier performance.
    • Support commercial and service teams during the quotation process by obtaining competitive pricing and delivery commitments from suppliers.
    • Monitor supplier performance and follow up on purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery of materials and services.
    • Coordinate with suppliers, logistics partners, and internal stakeholders to resolve supply chain, import/export, and delivery issues.
    • Establish and maintain supplier agreements that support preferred pricing, delivery performance, and long-term business objectives.
    • Review inventory levels and purchasing requirements to help maintain optimal stock levels and minimize supply disruptions.
    • Partner with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Commercial Operations teams to support continuous improvement initiatives and business goals.

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field, and/or relevant purchasing or procurement experience.
    • Experience with procurement, purchasing, sourcing, supplier management, or supply chain operations.
    • Knowledge of purchasing practices, supplier negotiations, and contract or commercial terms.
    • Understanding of technical products, manufacturing environments, and quality requirements.
    • Strong communication, organizational, problem-solving, and relationship management skills.
    • Professional proficiency in English.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Experience supporting manufacturing, industrial, or engineered-to-order (ETO) environments.
    • Knowledge of supplier quality, logistics, inventory management, and materials planning processes.
    • Experience negotiating strategic supplier agreements and managing supplier performance metrics.
    • Familiarity with import/export processes and international supply chain operations.
    • Understanding of engineered products, rotating equipment, pumps, valves, or related industrial technologies.
    • Experience working within a global procurement or supply chain organization.

    What We Can Offer You

    At Flowserve, you'll find a range of options to fit your, and your family's, needs. We want to provide our team with the right resources to invest in your physical, mental and financial well-being no matter where you sit or what stage of life you're in.

    Our benefits* include:

    • Competitive Salary
    • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
    • Retirement Planning & Financial Wellness Resources
    • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
    • Short- and Long-Term Disability
    • Parental Leave
    • Life, Supplemental Life, Child, Spousal, and AD&D Insurance

    *Benefits vary by job, location and/or collective bargaining agreement.

    If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click Apply.

    About Company

    Our global team of more than 18,000 employees in 55 countries can put together the total solution—from project planning to lifecycle maintenance programs to some of the most proven technology on the planet. All so you can get more from your capital investment. Exceed your operational goals. And always come through, when failure is not an option.

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