Planner/Buyer

JOB SUMMARY:The Planner/Buyer creates and maintains master schedule for products, subassemblies and materials for a product line. They purchase raw material and MRO items from suppliers to support the schedule and achieve delivery, margin, quality and inventory goals.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Coordinate product scheduling by creating and maintaining computerized master schedule for products, receiving input from staff indicating customer orders or forecasts for planned inventory items
• Plans ordering of raw materials by driving MRP requirements for raw material and executes purchase order release to supplier
• Ensures material availability by interacting with appropriate personnel, obtaining material by manufacturing start date by expediting, use of shortage reports and open order reports
• Reviews production capacity requirements: monitors capacity reports to ensure sufficient capacity is available to handle the requirements of master schedule, update capacity changes as they occur, assist in planning capacity requirements to meet forecasted needs
• Review and processes requests and documentation: schedules re-work of return orders, monitors delivery performance and interfaces with Managers, delivers and/or informs Customer Service and/or sales representative of deliveries and quote information, approve engineering change notice ship orders from stock daily or weekly

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinate communication activities with internal and external sources; reviews requests and situations with marketing, engineering and manufacturing to ensure customer satisfaction
• Dispatch and process customer orders
• Negotiate pricing for blanket agreements and supplier support programs
• Maintain production and purchase order schedules and other data in information systems
• Monitor Corrective Action Responses, works with Quality Engineer to correct, maintain and improve supplier quality issues

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience Years: 3-5 years
• Experience Type: Business Management/Planning
• OR equivalent combination of education and experience

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.) and web proficiency

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Office & Manufacturing Based

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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