Buyer I

Pay Range: $54,879 - $71,343 annual compensation

Job Posting Closing on:  Thursday, October 23, 2025 📅

Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

A Buyer I job is available with The City of Fort Worth Financial Management Services Department Purchasing Division. You will be responsible for providing support in the procurement of goods and services for the City of Fort Worth departments and operations to establish contracts and purchase agreements with suppliers and to perform a variety of technical tasks relative to assigned area of responsibility.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university with major course work in business administration, public administration, economics, accounting or a related field.
• No experience required
• Possession of a valid Driver's License.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Microsoft Office computer skills.
• Contract development and Cost/price analysis.
• BuySpeed Online or PeopleSoft purchasing systems experience.
• Municipal purchasing laws, policies and procedures.
• Basic accounting procedures and practices

The Buyer I job responsibilities include:

• Recommend the appropriate method or procurement to management.
• Review and edit specifications received from city departments.
• Prepare bid specifications and other necessary documents related to the purchasing of equipment, materials, services, and supplies in both formal and informal situations.
• Assist purchasing and user department staff responsible for ordering, receiving, monitoring of assigned contracts and with methods and techniques demonstrating industry best practices for procurement.
• Solicit bids from appropriate vendors, compare costs and evaluate the quality and suitability of equipment, materials, services, and supplies.
• Expedite the delivery of purchased materials.
• Make necessary adjustments with suppliers regarding replacements, incomplete orders, warranty claims or damaged supplies.
• Perform market analysis on requested goods and services, formulate, negotiate, establish and administer annual purchase agreement arrangement for a range of products and or services for the city.

Apply Now! Come be part of something special in Fort Worth. 🌟

Conditions Of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.