manufacturing buyer / planner.

The primary purpose is to pro-actively manage, plan both long term and short term and direct the functional areas of responsibility to ensure that goals related to customer satisfaction, inventory management, schedule compliance, and purchasing are met or exceeded.
Responsibilities:
- Compiles information and records to prepare purchase orders for procurement of material. ...

- Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests.
- Searches inventory records or warehouse to determine if material on hand is in sufficientquantity.
- Consults catalogs and interviews suppliers to obtain prices and specifications.
- Creates purchase order in EPR System and sends copy to supplier and department originating request.
- Compiles records of items purchased or transferred between departments, prices, deliveries, and inventories.
- Computes total cost of items purchased.
- Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries.
- May compare prices, specifications, and delivery dates and award contract to bidders. As specified at the direction of the Program Manager.
- May verify bills from suppliers with bids and purchase orders and approve bills for payment.
- May classify priority regulations.
- Works with PIC Operations Manager, Shift Leads and others to ensure proper release of scheduled work orders.
- Creates & tracks progress of schedule on a daily basis to ensure schedules are met.
- Takes pro-active approach to update customer's orders with potential of going late.
- Reviews internal capacity both short term and long term and load levels using RCCP.
- Researches and corrects discrepant order information (variances) as well as maintains ERP system data integrity.
- Aids in month end and year-end inventory processes.
- Reviews process documentation (routing/bom, print, quality docs) for accuracy to meet customer requirements and inquires with the appropriate subject matter experts for clarification.
- Maintains master shipping schedule.
- Maintains forecast.
- Attends Customer conference calls.
- Accepts Customer purchase orders via Customer web portals.
- Sets daily production schedule and assigns labor resources.
- Reviews rough cut capacity plan and makes recommendations for labor adjustments.
- Reviews customer demand and sets takt time for waterspiders and production cell.
- Performs daily maintenance of work orders.
- Ability to plan cross-site.
Working hours: 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Skills:
- APICS Certification is a major plus
- Knowledge of Syteline ERP a major plus
Education:
High School
Experience:
4-7 years
Qualifications:
- Two to three years of directly related experience in a manufacturing environment with multiple machines, cells and processes.
- Must have thorough understanding of Material Requirements Planning systems, including appropriate techniques for their implementation.
- Knowledge of inventory control, cycle-counting, and purchasing.
- Must have thorough knowledge of Lean Manufacturing concepts as they relate to creation of optimum flow of materials and information.
- Working knowledge of rough cut capacity planning, scheduling manufacturing cells and long term planning utilizing forecasts.
- Must be a citizen of the United States.
- Ability to work with multiple issues simultaneously.
- Ability to apply logical thinking to a wide range of intellectual, analytical, and complex problems.
- Ability to relate to people at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to effectively present information to managers and staff.
- Ability to empower staff to the highest level of quality and commitment to the organization.
- Ability and familiarity with changing and maintaining an organizational culture which is client and Associate focused.
- Must be able to model and lead others in a caring and fair manner.
- Working knowledge of sales order entry, routing structures, BOM structures.
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