Engineering Assistant

What You’ll Do
This position is responsible for managing Purchase Order activity for the Engineering organization. Primary responsibilities include timely and accurate Purchase Order entry, follow up, and tracking while following company protocol. The successful candidate will work daily with our engineering community to advance mission critical projects in a timely manner.

As the Engineering Assistant, you’ll be part of our Product Execution team located in Medellin Colombia. You’ll get to:

Essential Responsibilities

• Interface with engineers aligned to one of our 4 Engineering Centers of Excellence.
• Collaborate with engineers on their Purchase Order requirements.
• Process orders and review that information provided is correct and complete. Communicate with team of any pending issues.
• Create and send purchase orders to vendors by resolving any issues or changes required on Purchase Orders that have been submitted.
• Help track forecasted spend for both expense and capital Purchase Orders
• Request tracking information on orders and communicate to team and customers.
• Develops and maintains constructive and cooperative working relationships with peers and superiors.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and productivity.
• Other duties as assigned

Who You Are
You always strive to do a good job…but wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You care about quality – at every level. You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it.

You also have:
• Business Administration Degree or Certification
• 2-3 years of Customer Service experience or similar field.

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Desired Characteristics:

• Problem-solving ability. Ability to research internal and external factors to navigate the unknown to build solutions
• Ability to work with external vendors and customers as well as the ability to work independently.
• Effective organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical, organization, and time management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strategic thinker and results oriented.

We Don’t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.