What are the responsibilities and job description for the Buyer position at HDT?
Join the team that is a leader in engineering, designing and manufacturing of leading-edge military expeditionary products and rugged industrial/commercial products since 1937.
What We Offer:
- Employees (and their families) are covered by Medical, Dental and Vision
- Employees are covered by Short Term and Long Term Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Paid 100% by the company
- 401(k) plan
- 10 paid holidays
- 40 hours Paid Vacation after 1 Year of service,
- 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours paid
Essential Duties:
- Monitors short and long term material requirement needs, develops and implements effective plans to assure material availability using SAP to manage and action daily ERP messages
- Controls the flow of material from the supplier and on the production floor
- Monitors supplier on time delivery performance and escalates as necessary to commodity manager if chronic delivery issues are identified
- Sends open order report to supplier weekly to ensure current schedule is accurate
- Ensures that SAP reflects the most up-to-date delivery schedule from suppliers
- Monitors supplier shortages, shortage analysis and communication to appropriate team(s) as necessary
- Monitors supplier quality levels and escalates as necessary to commodity manager if chronic delivery issues are identified
- Daily expediting to ensure high service levels to our customers
Education/Experience/Other Skills & Abilities:
- Bachelor degree in Business/Operations or Supply Chain preferred
- Two to three years of operations/supply chain experience
- Experience in ERP systems, SAP desired
Disclaimer: This job description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities required for this role.