Buyer/Planner
Job ID
4819
Country
United States
State/Province
Alabama
# Positions
1
Category
Supply Chain/Logistics - All
City
Steele
The Buyer Planner works closely with engineering, quality, and manufacturing groups to develop, implement, and manage the on-time completion of the Master Production Schedule. Managerial experience meeting a dynamic market driven environment demands, such as: on time delivery strategies, inventory turns increase, warehouse management and profit and loss understanding is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Utilization of Materials Requirements Planning systems to offer 99.5+ customer service levels.
- Actively participate in New Product Development projects as a Materials representative.
- Maintain and develop stock programs as defined by Sales and Materials department.
- Assure that problems relating to delivery, quality or production are promptly resolved in a timely manner per standard procedures.
- Will be responsible to meet inventory targets for finish goods and raw materials.
- Develop strategies to ensure material availability to meet production plans.
- Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning understanding and execution.
- Review invoices for purchased commodities as required by Accounts Payable
- RAW and MRO system receipts.
- Coordination of the warehouse team in inventory control, material receipts, shipments and cycle count inventory.
- Monitor and expedite RM arrivals to meet delivery targets.
- Continually work to improve quality, delivery and costs.
- Assure that sales orders are entered into correctly and in an accurate and timely manner, and that all order information is complete.
- Expertise managing high exposure projects, ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Experience in manufacturing planning capacity.
- Ability to read and create MRP reports, stock status reports, material variance reports, assembly and machining load reports, and customer order shortage report.
- Responsible for the initial set-up phase of PeopleSoft by creating BOM’s, routers, transfer attributes, etc.
- Coordinate the logistics portion of shipments to mee delivery dates according to Customer’s needs.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business-related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in materials management, planning and/or operations.
- Demonstrated leadership, and negotiation skills,
- Successful track record of Achievements,
- Ability to learn quickly and willingness to take on new challenges,
- Skilled in PC applications and ERP systems experience,
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills,
- Skillful managing sense of urgency
- Team oriented individual.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- ERP Oracle, PeopleSoft Manufacturing experience
- Ability to manage high exposure projects.
- Lean manufacturing or Lean six sigma experience.
- CPIM APICS.
Rain Bird Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Address
Steele, AL
United States