Job Details

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.

• Plan ordering of raw materials by driving MRP requirements and execute purchase order release to supplier.

• Ensure material availability by interacting with appropriate personnel and obtaining material by manufacturing start date through expediting and using shortage and open order reports.

• Review production capacity requirements: monitor 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 process requests and documentation:  schedule re-work of return orders, monitor delivery performance and interfaces with managers, deliver quote information, approve engineering change notice, and ship orders from stock as needed.

• 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 and work 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

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

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Office and manufacturing floor.