What are the responsibilities and job description for the Purchasing Supervisor position at Michael Foods Inc.?
Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food.
Location Description
Michael Foods, Inc. located in Gaylord, Minnesota is Minnesota's Healthy Heartland! Gaylord is located in south central Minnesota about an hour west of the Twin Cities and 35 minutes from Mankato, Hutchinson, and New Ulm. As the County Seat, Gaylord is the "Hub of Sibley County." Our location produces liquid egg, hardcook egg, and precooked egg such as scrambled, patties and omelets.
Responsibilities
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Purchasing Supervisor is responsible to develop and maintain the master production schedule and maintain inventory personnel for receiving for all packaging and ingredients. Will develop daily production schedule to meet customer and distribution center’s demand while meeting overall departmental inventory objectives. Will place purchase orders, facilitate meetings, resolve raw material challenges, plan and forecast for seamless movement of raw materials into production. This is a critical leadership position with support to the overall production and materials network within MFI, and functional responsibility for the material supply, to production requirements within the Gaylord plants. Not including egg procurement.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develops, publishes and maintains the master production schedule, balancing inventory, resources and capacity.
- Facilitates teams, training and functional interaction meetings for direction, decision making, information sharing and consensus building.
- Leads daily production meetings and advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems.
- Communicates with the Demand and Supply Planning, Customer Service, Marketing, Production, Quality Control, Engineering and Sales departments on a regular basis to resolve potential schedule interruptions.
- Manages raw, in-process and finished inventory levels consistent with business objectives and requirements.
- Partners with Quality and Production to ensure all new products are implemented flawlessly.
- Supports and leads various plant/company teams, and goals. And actively participates in cross-functional continuous improvement teams.
- Ensures inventory accuracy through an effective cycle count program including best practices on daily material usage in production (Correct and minimizes theoretical SAP shrink assumptions).
- Ensures proper material rotation (FIFO) and minimizes obsolete and spoiled materials.
- Updates and maintains accurate master data information in the SAP system and engages QA, R & D, Operations and production to ensure new product launches are accurate and new product trials and scheduled and communicated to all involved parties.
- Maintains raw egg inventory in house and in transit in order to accurately request volume needed for production.
- Daily monitoring of Work in Progress
- Manages (MRP) material master, material resource planning and inventory management. Submits Form 1300 to create new materials in SAP, and troubleshoots any issues that would occur within its daily activity.
- Manages safety by maintaining compliance with safety guidelines internally and externally.
- Assists with system implementation issues relative to the master scheduling process.
- Supervises material receiving department.
- Supervises Receiving personnel.
- Adhere to safe work practices, follow GMP’s, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality or personnel safety
- Responsible for Food Safety and Food Quality of MFI products.
- Adhere to all safety policies and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience.
- 2 years of experience in Supply Chain, Sourcing and/or Purchasing.
- 2 years of leadership experience.
- Experience with client-server enterprise resource planning systems (preferably SAP).
- Food industry exposure and/or experience a plus.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups, customers/vendors or employees of the organization.
- Ability to lead and work on projects in a team environment and across functions
- Strong planning and analysis skills coupled with results orientation.
- Highly motivated individual able to work in fast-paced environment.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interaction at all levels of the organization.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of the work and may not include all the duties associated with this position.
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