The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
From day one at NREL, you’ll connect with coworkers driven by the same mission to save the planet. By joining an organization that values a supportive, inclusive, and flexible work environment, you’ll have the opportunity to engage through our eight employee resource groups, numerous employee-driven clubs, and learning and professional development classes.
We are looking for someone who can source, negotiate and execute purchase orders and contribute towards process and reporting improvement for the OCFO. The overall mission of the Simplified Acquisition Team is to provide value added services in a courteous manner delivering quality solutions efficiently, effectively, and timely to support NREL's mission. Our Vision is to provide simplified acquisition excellence in an emerging research field.
Duties for this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Coordinate with internal customers to generate specifications and statements of work.
- Develop effective purchasing strategy with internal customers based on needs.
- Perform Market Research
- Review sole source justifications.
- Perform price analysis.
- Negotiate and administer fixed price commercial item/service purchases.
- Resolve issues related to subcontractor performance, intellectual property, subcontractor equipment purchases, and organizational conflicts of interest.
- Administering low-to-mid-level subcontracts.
- Post award subcontract administration (modifications and closeouts).
- Team with Acquisition Service Group members on projects as assigned.
This position provides support primarily to multiple customers at any given time, which involves a growing range of procurement services to the Laboratory as a whole. Learning to use standard practices and procedures, as well as business systems in order to complete assigned work. May interface with OCIO for testing efforts, OCFO for payment issues, and Internal Audit Office for subcontract closeout audit support. Discretion of judgement is increasingly used to determine how to solve problems. Work is supervised for overall accuracy and quality of results.