Assistant Production Planner/Buyer

JOB FUNCTION:

Assist the purchasing and planning teams in procuring goods and services and providing accurate dates. This involves creating and managing purchase orders and work orders, ensuring products are delivered/completed on time, tracking stock, monitor inventory levels, and reordering/creating new jobs when necessary. Communicating both expedites and delays to the planning team and updating dates on both purchase orders and work orders.

Essential duties and Responsibilities:

1. Monitor production workflows and timelines, ensuring adherence to schedules and identifying potential bottlenecks or delays

2. Prepare purchase orders and review invoices for accuracy

3. Work with Customer Service for changes/corrections, expediting shipments

4. Support the needs of operations to ensure alignment with operations and logistics

5. Work collaboratively with team members with different backgrounds and perspectives

6. Knowledge of supply chain management, Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other relevant software

7. Excellent communication skills. Ability to promptly return communications (including phone, email and messages) from vendors and peers, and ensure timely follow-up

8. Time management and organizational skills, and Ability to work under pressure

9. Strong attention to detail and ability to multitask

10. Maintain a clean, organized work environment and adheres to all safety standards, procedures, and regulations

11. Other duties may be assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and Experience:

1. High School diploma or GED.

Required Skills:

1. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

2. Ability to write reports and manage routine correspondence.

3. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of peers and managers.

4. Ability to produce positive results under pressure and deadlines.

Certificates, Licenses, Registration: None

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision, for viewing manufactured components, tools/equipment, and blueprints.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations 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 moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles while performing duties within the manufacturing plant. Since time is also spent in a typical office environment the overall noise level is usually moderate.