Position Summary

Maintain minimum inventory level of chemical, packaging and accessory items, ensuring on time delivery to meet production demands and customer requested dates.  Directly purchases plant supplies requested by production and maintenance.

 

Essential Functions

• Coordinate full process purchasing activity with manufacturing departments to acquire inventory in a cost effective and timely manner beginning with intent to purchase and following through delivery. 
• Anticipate any challenges or disruptions in supply or quality and provide alternative solutions. 
• Oversee vendors and ensure adequate procedures are in place to minimize variances and defect material issues. 
• Address vendor performance as needed to ensure products are delivered at the negotiated price, according to expectation and quality standards of the company. 
• Maintain consistent and effective lines of communication with all related departments to confirm needs are met and forecast future needs. 
• Monitor and communicate all potential and actual issues with on time deliveries, shortages, delays, and other deviations from planned expectations to stakeholders. 
• Assist in development and review of processes within planning to reduce service failures. 
• Perform maintenance of current price information; department and supplier product information; supplier contracts, servicing agreements, etc. 
• Build and maintain good supplier and customer relationships. 
• Maintain inventory at desired levels per product demand.  
• Assist with Inventory during month end with a heavy focus on reconciliations and discrepancy investigation for accessory and packaging items. 
• Maintain timely control of orders, amendments, shipping notices, and other documents to assure accurate retention of records.  
• Data entry of PO’s, including compliance requirements on all purchasing documents.
• Create and maintain purchasing logs and controls.  
• Work with accounts payable regarding supplier and vendor invoices.  
• Prepare and submit reports as directed. 
• Completes training by supervisor.
• Complies with all safety and company policies and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong communication and teamwork skills are required: written and verbal.  
• Able to work in time sensitive and sometimes stressful situations.  
• Able to work independently, prioritize tasks, and do research to find answers with little guidance. Must be resourceful and a self-starter.

Education and Experience

• A minimum of two years purchasing experience is required.  
• Accounting knowledge is preferred. 
• Knowledge of executing inventory at month end and prior experience with inventory databases and data entry.  
• Strong computer skills, Excel and QuickBooks proficiency.  
• Must have excellent math skills with an understanding of percentages, fractions, conversion. between inches, feet, meters, centimeters and related distance and area units.  

 

Physical Requirements

• Able to sit for extended periods of time, walk, stand, climb, reach.  
• Must be able to lift at least 25Ibs.  
• Visual acuity, finger dexterity, color discernment.  
• Must possess professional phone etiquette.  
• Able to wear prescribed personal protective equipment and appropriate clothing.  
• Occasionally work in conditions typical of a manufacturing environment, including noise, extreme temperatures and humidity, odors, dust, etc.  
• Effectively use a computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and commonly used software to complete necessary functions assigned.  

 

Working Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts, dusty conditions, high noise environments, chemicals used in the process, and extreme temperatures. The facility is an industrial manufacturing plant.