About this role
Job Description
- Plans, schedules and monitors the movement of materials through the production cycle to determine required materials purchases.
- Obtains materials using engineering and production schedules to maintain inventory at planned levels (i.e., Just in Time purchases, use of EOQ - Economic Order Quantities).
- Resolves discrepancies.
- Creates and maintains bills of material and parts/commodities numbers in supply chain management or other enterprise wide systems.
- Ensures material standards are met and non-conformances or variances are approved and/or minimized.
- Develops specifications for new contract orders.
- Gathers quotations, examines bids and makes awards.
- Monitors cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to assure best quality at best value.
- Evaluates vendor reliability and develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive.
- General application of concepts and principals to resolve a variety of issues.
- Works on problems of a moderate scope where analysis of situation or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
- Normally receives general instructions on routine work and detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.
- Typically requires a degree and a minimum of 2 years of experience.