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Description:

About Bender

For over 75 years, Bender has been a market leader in providing electrical safety equipment to industries worldwide. Our wide portfolio of cutting-edge products ensure that people, equipment, and facilities worldwide are protected with the latest in electrical safety technology. Our worldwide network of over 70 offices, representatives, and partners offer comprehensive product, application, and technical support.

Bender's core competence is electrical safety. With expertise in virtually every industry, Bender provides both the products and knowledge to meet the demands for customer-specific solutions. Always on the cutting edge, our portfolio of electrical safety solutions focus on a wide range of industries, from mainstay industries such as hospitals, mining, and manufacturing, to newly developed industries such as solar, wind, and electric vehicles. Our ongoing research and development in virtually all industries ensures that no matter the application, you can count on Bender to be your partner in electrical safety.

Benefits

At Bender Inc. we believe in providing a generous benefits package to our employees to help cover the always rising medical costs and keep their out of pocket spend very low. Bender Inc. covers 100% of insurance premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision for eligible employees and their qualifying dependents. The benefits we offer to our employees include:

• Medical (including prescription plan)
• Dental
• Vision
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• Health Care and Dependent Care Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Safe Harbor 401k Plan, where the company contributes 3% of annual salary.
• Employee Assistance Program
• Vacation & PTO
• Paid Maternity/Parental Leave
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Work Schedules - with a great balance of working from home and in the office.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Safety:

• Follow all Bender Inc. Safety Policies and Procedures, as well as the safety requirements of our customers where applicable. Immediate reporting of any safety violations or concerns.
• Ensure all applicable regulatory standards are met with regards to loss prevention, accident investigation, OSHA compliance.
• Works with team members to actively improve safety.
• Ensure safety action items are completed accurately and timely.

Quality:

• Ensure team members are accurately following quality procedures.
• Work with Quality and Operations team members in the development of SOPs, identification of root causes, and implementation of corrective actions/preventive actions.
• Communicate and coordinate training on new processes and procedures as required.

Productivity:

• This position is responsible for working with Supply Chain to review sales forecast and product consumption to accurately provide demand planning for goods purchased for both distribution and manufacturing.
• Responsible for production planning, formulates the master production plan that best meets market forecasts, inventory objectives and customer requirements, and inputs to MRP for assemble to order products.
• Serves as a primary point of contact and liaison with Sales, Customer Service, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain.
• Collaborates with these departments to establish daily schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best serve our customer needs.
• Working closely with the Inventory Manager, compares current and anticipated orders with available inventory of raw materials.
• Works with Sales, Customer Service, and Supply chain to review forecast and update the ERP system to ensure forecast can be met.
• Understand future capacity/supply constraints affecting production by engaging stakeholders throughout the planning process, and lead the development of recovery plans
• Leads planning meetings with Sales, Production, Supply Chain and Customer Service teams.
• Support supply chain / planning projects as needed (i.e. improve supply chain flexibility, demand processes, etc.).
• Maintain updates of key SAP material planning data to best utilization of the planning system
• This person will be responsible for the S4Hana production planning module implementation. They will also serve as the expert for production planning in SAP.
• Provides inputs to demand planning on shipment schedules, plans and forecast based on capacity. (S&OP process).
• Releases work orders to the manufacturing floor aligned with the production plan.
• Constantly maintain, evaluate, recommend, and implement improvements in material requirements planning (MRP) to drive down inventory levels.
• Develop and maintain procedures and work instructions to support master planning.
• Researches and resolves daily MRP problems including identifying product structure problems, input, and other errors.
• Performs data entry to ensure efficient use of materials planning.
• Responsible for creating, measuring, disseminating, and presenting statistical data and variance reporting and analysis.

Cost:

• Maintain cost in accordance from BTA goals communicated from the Head of Operations.
• Work with team members to actively find ways to improve material management processes.
• Actively work to identify and improve work processes.

Continuous Improvement:

• Actively improve SAP MM and PP systems against best practices.
• Participate in CI initiatives: i.e. 6S events, Kaizen events, and define steps that need to be taken
• Work with team to actively develop and coordinate improvements.

Other Duties

• Bender Family home related maintenance items.
• As assigned.

. Requirements:

Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Management.
• Demonstrated knowledge of lean and continuous improvement. Lean or Six Sigma Certification Preferred
• Ability to work with all employees at all levels of management.
• 5+ years' supply chain experience
• 3+ years' planning experience
• 3+ years' Experience with ERP systems; SAP required. PP and MM modules required
• Advanced skills in MS Office (Excel / Outlook / Word)
• Strong partnering and communication skills, both written and verbal, as well as the ability to communicate across varying levels
• Data analysis skills required
• APICS certification is a plus

Other Requirements

• Ability and willingness to work as a member of a team; initiative
• Flexible work hours when required
• Detail oriented and ability to make sound judgments
• Confidentiality; professionalism

The above statements and information are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills required of personnel so classified. Nothing in this document is intended to exclude the opportunity for modifications or adjustment to the job or the manner of performing it consistent with the requirement to provide reasonable accommodations to the disabled. With or without accommodation, the essential functions must be performed. Employees unable to accomplish any functions may request reasonable accommodation's pursuant to the Americans with Disability Act. In addition, employee must follow all Bender Inc. Safety Policies and Procedures, as well as the safety requirements of our customers where applicable.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

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