at Eaton Corporation in Pinckneyville, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Eaton’s ES GEIS BLD division is currently seeking a Associate Buyer.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $55125.0 – $80850.0 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll do:
- Schedule internal and supplier demand based on the actual demand, safety stock / re-order point logic, and / or forecast through system generated action messages.
- Conduct supplier pricing analysis working to ensure competitive pricing is being achieved from sourcing.
- Monitor and assess the plant’s demand load data; drive resolution on uneven capacity utilization that keeps plant focused on the customer, while efficiently utilizing manufacturing resources.
- Manage purchase requisitions, investigate and develops sources of supplies, prepare bid specifications, issues bid requests and review quotations
- Participate in monthly SIOP review and develop appropriate planning parameters for parts to manage performance balancing customer service levels and inventory
- Assist plant execution towards achieving delivery, inventory, & cost metrics.
- Interface with customers and sales team to update and determine order completion
- Examine departmental purchase requisitions for completeness & accuracy of provided information necessary for the buying procedure.
- Expedite and defer goods and services as required to meet customer expectations and sales targets
- Manage inventory, develop target quantities, and minimize total inventory expense while meeting required component lead time goals.
- Identify and maintains direct contact with suppliers, build and maintain solid relationships with strategic supply chain partners.
- Perform market analysis for certain commodities to gather empirical data to justify purchases.
- Lead forecast consumption analysis by actual sales orders & makes recommendations based on cumulative lead time analysis.
- Meet daily with the plant supervisors and manufacturing team to assess production schedules, (adjust as necessary based on production results) optimize run quantities, and minimize changeovers to help achieve 100% on time delivery.
- Conduct regular supplier performance reviews and development of improvement plans.
- Coordinate engineering changes and work closely with Quality supervisor, Materials supervisor and / or Materials Manager to correct quality problems with vendors.
- Execute Return to Vendors in a timely manner and process invoices to clear MRBR issues.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
+ Bachelors Degree from an accredited university
+ Minimum 1 year of Buying/Purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment
+ Ability to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future
+ No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates residing within a 50-mile radius of Pinckneyville, IL will be considered. Active-duty military members are exempt from this geographical limitation.
Preferred Qualifications:
+ Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or Business administration
+ Knowledge of MRP (Materials Requirements Planning)
+ APICS CPIM Certification
+ SAP experience
Skills:
- Scheduling techniques and familiarity with product processing
- Strong interpersonal and vendor relation
- Self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
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