Industrial Procurement Coordinator for Ultrasonic Electronics - 18/08/2026 04:56 EDT

We are an engineering team building a robotic inspection system and we need to buy a specialised piece of ultrasonic electronics. We have already completed the market research and identified all nine candidate products, the six manufacturers, and their distributors. What we need now is someone to run the procurement process: contact every vendor, chase them until they answer, collect quotes and datasheets, and give us a clean comparison so we can decide.\n\nThis is a coordination and vendor-management role, not a research role. The homework is done - you will receive a full vendor dossier with names, direct emails, phone numbers and addresses on day one. Your job is to turn that list into signed quotes.\n\nBe aware this is a niche product. These are not Alibaba commodity suppliers. They are small, technical, European / Russian / Chinese engineering firms who sell perhaps a few hundred units a year. They are often slow to reply and some do not publish prices at all. Persistence matters more than sourcing volume experience.\n\nBACKGROUND (so you understand what you are asking about)\n\nWe need an OEM EMAT ultrasonic pulser-receiver - an electronics module that drives a non-contact ultrasonic sensor to measure steel wall thickness without any liquid couplant. It will be integrated into a robotic arm that inspects boiler tubes.\n\nYou do NOT need to understand the physics. You DO need to be able to relay technical questions accurately and recognize when a vendor has dodged one.\n\nOur key requirement, the sensor cable must run about 1 metre from the electronics box to the probe. If less cable length is less than that, we need to make sure the electronics box is smaller than certain dimensions. Most vendors' standard cable is 0.3 m to 1.2 m. Getting a straight answer on this from each vendor is the single most valuable thing you can do on this project.\n\nSCOPE OF WORK\n\n1. V