Buyer/Planner

Tecomet, Inc•Bristol, PA

About The Position

This position will procure materials to meet planned requirements in accordance with inventory stocking policies and procedures, while meeting business objectives of safety, quality, on time delivery, competitive customer lead times, profitability, and inventory. The Buyer/Planner will create the Production Plan to best satisfy current and forecasted demand, while meeting business objectives of safety, quality, on time delivery, competitive customer lead times, profitability and inventory.

Requirements

Educated to degree standard desirable (Bachelor of Science degree preferred), but not essential – relevant experience consistent with required skills and abilities).
Minimum of 3 years of experience within Planning and Procurement.
Must have experience with any modern ERP Systems.
Production scheduling to manage open orders and driving the production planning process
Must be well versed in MRP/MPS systems
Demonstrated experience within materials planning and scheduling, and supplier performance management in a fast paced, regulated, precision engineering environment.
Excellent attention to detail with a capacity to recognize problems and proactively resolve where possible and escalate as necessary.
Advanced Microsoft skills, particularly MS Excel and ability to download and manipulate data quickly and easily using advanced functions
Strong numerical and analytical skills with a methodical and organized approach to work.
Works well under pressure within a busy office environment with the ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks.
Ability to apply LEAN concepts and good understanding of Pull systems.
High energy, enthusiastic and confident individual with excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Sensitive to different international cultures and able to adapt style accordingly whilst ensuring targets are met and exceeded.
Good negotiation skills.
A team player.

Nice To Haves

APICS certification a plus or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Ability to utilize Material Requirement Planning (MRP) to its fullest extent to perform Procurement related activities
Maintain part master data as well as understanding how master data drives material requirement planning
Plan all operations starting with the receipt of purchase orders through shipping of product.
Maintain appropriate inventory levels to meet and exceed inventory targets and turns; as well as seek opportunities to reduce inventory through various techniques such as lot size optimization, off-the-shelf vs. MTO analysis, Kanban, etc.
Create a production plan, understand level loading, capacity planning, sequential and concurrent scheduling to maximize production efficiency by minimizing change overs, down time, and over time.
Place purchase orders according to forecast and demand; as well as understanding of cyclical, seasonal, and/or historical ordering trends
Proactively identify potential part shortages, work with vendors to prevent shortages, understand vendor capacity and constraints; as well as when to properly escalate potential part shortages.
Perform purchase order acknowledgement, reconciliation of open orders with vendors, and provide forecast to vendors for future ordering.
Identify root cause of late lines and implement corrective action to prevent forward to ensure fill rate targets are achieved and sustained.
Drive root cause for missed shipments and help to implement corrective actions to ensure Customer fill rate targets are achieved and sustained.
Track on-time supplier delivery performance and drive root cause and corrective action to improve overall supplier performance
Evaluate slow moving items and work with appropriate groups to propose clean-up, re-work, obsolescence, changes to lot sizing, stock status etc.
Communicate effectively both internally and externally at all levels.
Other duties as assigned
Provides information to weekly SIOP meetings
Understand PFEP “Plan for Every Part” as well as determining Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) to achieve price reductions while balancing inventory levels.
Full understanding of re-order points and safety stock formulas; as well as the impact on different ways of calculating.
Understand Production Attainment and working with manufacturing to fully optimize scheduling to ensure capacity is maximized and production orders are closed out on-time.