Production Planner/Buyer

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Job description

Lighthouse Professional Services, a division of Staffing 360 Solutions group of companies, has been providing contract and direct hire talent to client companies, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations for over 50 years. Our offices are in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and we work with clients across the country. Our management and recruiting teams are led by experienced industry professionals. We invest in excellent working partnerships, powered by people.

We are currently seeking Production Planner/Buyer in Enfield, CT. As a Production Planner/Buyer, your day-to-day duties will consist of and may not be limited to:

• Responsible for the overall procurement and production planning process of the assigned product group(s), that includes among other tasks:
  • Maintaining the Item Master on purchase parts to ensure proper lead times, pricing and lot sizes
  • Maintaining the Master Production Schedule (Demand Planning)
  • Initiate and maintain the Material Requirement Planning (MRP) system to ensure the timely release of material to support and efficient build process
  • Planning of all production processes to meet production dates
  • Generating, releasing and processing of work orders
  • Generating, releasing and processing of purchase orders domestic and international
  • Monitoring inventory stocking levels of purchases and semi-manufactured materials
  • Negotiating pricings, terms and lead times with suppliers
  • Processing nonconforming material with supplies
  • Processing and maintaining the Routing Operations and Bill of Material (BOM) for all production processes
  • Maintain documentation control of all procurement related forms and practices
  • Analyze supplier performance related to on time delivery, price variances and nonconforming materials
  • Maintain a collaborative relationship with internal and external stakeholders
• Must have experience with Engineering Change Orders (ECO) and production implementations, including maintaining expiration and effective dates of part revisions and their dispositions
• Determines and maintains stock levels for manufactured and purchase parts based on historical usage and forecast analysis
• Determines and maintains optimized production and purchase part lot sizes based on optimal capacity utilization and desired stock levels and ensures accuracy of production leads times for manufactured finished product
• Must have detailed knowledge of:
  • Multi-level Bill of Materials and its function
  • Multi-level work orders including outside processing (OSP)
• Advanced software skills in ERP systems required, preferably LN-Infor 5 or higher and/or SAP R/4 or higher.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Two year (Associates) technical / engineering college degree or certificate and 3-5 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of educations and experience.
• Proven Production Planning qualifications would be a significant plus.
• Knowledge of Purchase activities, logistics and freight business functions and impact.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply immediately!

Please include a clean copy of your resume and salary expectations and any references.

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Job Requirements:

• Maintain production material inventory and purchase plan
• Monitor raw material inventory for SMD
• Manage purchase orders placed with suppliers
• Optimize material costs with production material availability
• Confirm supplier delivery dates for purchasing material and expedite orders
• Pull of inventory for blanket purchase orders to suppliers
• Drive raw material inventory reduction to achieve inventory turn
• Initiate production/purchase order changes
• Maintain and monitor raw material inventory to ensure supply
• Maintain raw materials and purchased parts inventory at target levels
• Maintain inventory stocking levels for raw materials
• Maintain purchase orders to support manufacturing
• Maintain acceptable levels of raw material inventory to support production while achieving inventory objectives
• Preparing and releasing purchase orders for production materials
• Administer and expedite purchase orders
• Manage and expedite purchase orders
• Scheduling the delivery of material from suppliers
• Placing and expediting orders from raw materials to finished goods inventory
• Maintain appropriate level of raw material inventory for assigned products/materials
• Optimize inventory levels to support demand requirements