Buyer/Planner

Overview

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