Buyer / Planner

is position exists to provide support to the assigned value stream in the areas of scheduling, expediting, and material availability.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The incumbent is responsible for:

• Detailed material requirements planning

• Utilizes Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) systems to assure availability of materials and control of inventory levels for assigned production lines.

• Monitors and reacts to exception messages (e.g. Purchase Order/Discrete Job actions, capacity)

• Issue requisitions for purchased material

• Develop forecasts for Suppliers

• Maintenance of the Final Assembly Schedule

• Develop and maintain releasing centers

• Utilize available data sources to develop and implement level-load strategies

• Release discrete jobs as necessary

• Manages and responds to customer expedites

• Promising of customer orders

• Process scrap transactions

• Participate in daily Tier 2 (production line accountability) meetings

• Maintenance of item parameters and order modifiers

• Participate in the investigation and resolution of transaction errors (e.g., WIP transactions)

• Performance analysis

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Experience with SAP preferred

• Minimum of 2 years experience in a production planning role

• Proficient with MS Office suite

• Excellent analytical and communication skills required

• Bachelor's degree in business, materials management, technical or related discipline preferred; in lieu of degree will consider a minimum of 3 years materials planning or Integrated Supply Chain experience. Must have at least a HS diploma on file.

Contacts:

This function as a support function works closely with demand manager, factory team leaders, buyers, manufacturing engineering, design engineering quality engineering and assemblers.

Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.