Description
This is the top purchasing position in an organization. Responsible for developing objectives, policies, and procedures for the procurement of goods and services encompassing all purchasing functions organization-wide, often including multiple facilities. Responsible for all or most of the following: purchase of raw materials, component parts, equipment, services, and supplies. May purchase supplies and services for nonproduction departments. Supervises other managers/supervisors as well as Buyer personnel at one or more location(s). The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, incumbents in this position meet the criteria for exempt status.