The posting
Position title : Technical Purchaser / Senior Buyer – R&D & Semiconductor Equipment
Location: Admiralty Working Days: 5 Day A Week Working hours : 9:00am - 6:00pm Salary : SGD 4,500 – SGD 6,000/month (Based on experience and technical capability).
Responsibilities:
1. Support design and prototype development
- Work with designers from the early design stage to identify purchasing requirements, sourcing risks and long lead-time components.
- Review BOMs with engineers and track items awaiting specifications, drawing release, quotation or purchase approval.
- Coordinate purchasing priorities with module owners and assembly teams so that parts arrive in the sequence needed for each build.
- Respond promptly to design changes and manage their impact on open orders, delivery dates and costs.
2. Resolve difficult sourcing situations
- Proactively source mechanical, electrical, motion control, pneumatic, vacuum and other equipment components, together with custom fabricated parts.
- Identify alternatives when specified parts have excessive lead times, become obsolete, are unavailable or cannot meet project requirements.
- Present engineers with practical options, including available stock, alternative brands or models, local fabrication and expedited delivery.
- Obtain engineering approval for all technical substitutions before committing purchases.
- Develop a reliable supplier network for low-volume orders, urgent requirements and prototype fabrication.
3. Own supplier follow-up and delivery
- Obtain quotations, clarify specifications, negotiate commercial terms and issue purchase orders promptly within company procedures.
- Secure supplier order acknowledgements and confirmed delivery dates; distinguish committed dates from indicative lead times.
- Follow up actively on outstanding orders and verify progress on critical items.
- Arrange partial deliveries, priority production or alternative shipping where these can help the build schedule.
- Escalate risks early with clear options, recommended action and the decision required.
4. Maintain purchasing visibility and control
- Maintain an accurate tracker covering part number and revision, supplier, PO status, promised delivery, outstanding quantity and current risk.
- Provide a concise critical-parts update showing what could delay each module and the action being taken.
- Ensure suppliers receive the correct drawings and revisions; manage order amendments, cancellations and obsolete stock exposure following design changes.
- Coordinate with receiving, quality and engineering teams to resolve incorrect, damaged or nonconforming deliveries.
Requirements:
- Diploma or degree in engineering, supply chain, procurement or a related discipline; relevant practical experience will also be considered.
- Preferably 3–7 years of purchasing or technical sourcing experience in semiconductor equipment, automation, precision machinery or a similar engineering environment.
- Experience supporting R&D, new product introduction or first prototype builds is strongly preferred.
- Able to work with engineering BOMs, part specifications and drawing revisions, and clarify technical requirements with designers.
- Familiarity with precision machined parts and standard equipment components such as motors, drives, bearings, linear guides, ball screws, sensors and pneumatic components.
- Managing multiple changing priorities using Excel and purchasing/ERP systems.
📲Interested candidates, please WhatsApp your resume to: +65 9642 0989 (Han) 📧 Or email your resume to: [email protected]
👤Chaw Chiaw Han | R22106723🏢 The Supreme HR Advisory Pte Ltd | EA 14C7279



