Responsible for purchasing and planning materials, components, tooling, equipment, and services to support customer and operational requirements. Manages assigned inventory and supplier requirements by reviewing demand, forecasts, inventory levels, lead times, and system planning recommendations to ensure material availability while balancing cost and inventory investment. Works closely with suppliers and internal departments to maintain accurate delivery commitments, resolve supply issues, and achieve appropriate quality, cost, and service levels.

• Purchases and plans materials, tooling, components, equipment, and services required to support customer demand, inventory requirements, and day-to-day operations while balancing cost, quality, lead time, and inventory investment.
• Independently reviews

ERP/MRP/APS

planning recommendations, demand signals, inventory levels, open supply, lead times, and business requirements to determine and execute appropriate purchasing and planning actions without requiring approval for each routine decision.

• Monitors assigned supplier performance, including on-time delivery, lead-time accuracy, quality, responsiveness, and adherence to purchasing requirements, and addresses recurring performance issues.
• Negotiates pricing, lead times, minimum order quantities, delivery schedules, payment terms, and other commercial conditions within established levels of authority.
• Reviews assigned inventory for excess, obsolete, slow-moving, and unnecessarily early material and takes appropriate purchasing or planning actions to reduce inventory exposure.
• Works closely with Sales/Customer Service, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Warehouse/Logistics, and Accounting to coordinate material requirements and resolve purchasing, inventory, supplier, and delivery issues.
• Builds and maintains effective supplier relationships and identifies new or alternate sources as required to improve cost, quality, delivery, lead time, and supply continuity.
• Reviews demand, inventory levels, open supply, lead times, safety stock, and system planning recommendations to maintain appropriate inventory levels and material availability while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Prepares and sends completed and accurate purchase orders according to company guidelines.
• Proactively monitors and follows up on open purchase orders, supplier acknowledgements, promise dates, past-due orders, and changing material requirements. Expedites, defers, modifies, or cancels orders as necessary to support current demand and inventory requirements.
• Resolves purchase order, receiving, pricing, and billing discrepancies in coordination with suppliers, Accounting, Warehouse, and other appropriate departments.
• Participates in physical inventory and cycle-count activities as required and assists in researching and resolving purchasing-related inventory discrepancies.
• Prepares and transmits requests for quotation and evaluates supplier responses based on price, lead time, quality, delivery, freight/landed cost, payment terms, and supplier capability.
• Works with Engineering and Quality to ensure suppliers can provide products that meet required technical, quality, and documentation requirements.
• Coordinates with Quality, Warehouse, and suppliers regarding purchased material that is defective, nonconforming, damaged, or otherwise unacceptable, including returns, replacements, and corrective actions as required.
• Works with management and appropriate departments to review forecasts, customer demand, historical usage, new products, and changing requirements to anticipate and plan future material needs.
• Maintains accurate purchasing records and ERP data, including supplier pricing, lead times, minimum order quantities, purchasing history, agreements, and other applicable purchasing parameters.
• Coordinates purchasing activities related to changes in specifications, part numbers, approved sources, engineering changes, and product transitions, including identification of potential inventory exposure.
• Interfaces with Shipping/Receiving Department regarding incoming and outgoing shipments on a daily basis.
• Attends and participates in meetings to Participates in cross-functional meetings to review material requirements, purchasing priorities, inventory availability, supplier commitments, and other issues impacting customer and operational needs.

Participates in required on the job training programs. Additional duties may be assigned.

Education/Experience:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and prior related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Ability:

Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to generate concise reports and verbal updates. Ability to read and interpret documents. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Math Ability:

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability:

Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and the ability to understand the impact of operations on financial results. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of word processing software; spreadsheet software; inventory software; internet software; order processing systems; database software and e-mail.

Certificates and Licenses:

Valid driver's license

Equipment:

Computer; telephone; Microsoft Office; web browser; et al

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outdoor weather conditions and temperature variations caused by the weather.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to work while sitting; walk; use hands and fingers to operate computers, talk and hear.
• The employee is frequently required to sit; reach with hands and arms
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Pay:

$50,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) Dental insurance Employee assistance program Flexible spending account Health insurance Health savings account Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance

Education:

High school or equivalent (Required)

Experience:

Purchasing:

3 years (Required)

Location:

Exeter, PA 18643 (Preferred) Shift availability: Day Shift (Required)

Work Location:

In person