Buyer 1

Hendrickson•Lebanon, KY

About The Position

The Buyer I purchases MRO supplies, fabricated components, and outside-processing services to support plant operations and production schedules. The role coordinates purchasing and material-planning activities with suppliers and internal departments, including production, customer service, quality, shipping/receiving, and engineering. It maintains accurate purchasing and planning data in the ERP system, supports inventory accuracy, monitors supplier performance, and contributes to cost-reduction and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Requirements

Three to five years of materials, purchasing, planning, or supply chain experience in a manufacturing environment.
Material-planning or production-planning experience in a manufacturing environment.
Experience with supplier relationship management, supplier improvement, cost-reduction initiatives, and corrective-action processes.
Experience with procurement, production control, shipping, receiving, transportation, and inventory processes.
Experience participating in cross-functional teams and continuous-improvement activities.
Experience with change management, problem identification, root-cause analysis, and project management.
Strong working knowledge of MRP and supply chain management, including procurement, production control, inventory management, shipping, receiving, and transportation.
Experience using QAD or a comparable manufacturing ERP system.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Teams, and Outlook.
Ability to create, run, maintain, or interpret system queries and operational reports.
Working knowledge of automatic data collection systems, including barcode-scanning technology.
Working knowledge of inventory-management and production-reporting systems.
Understanding of value-stream and end-to-end supply chain processes.
Understanding of Lean manufacturing principles and tools, including Kanban and Kaizen.
Knowledge of cycle-counting practices, inventory controls, and good manufacturing practices.
An equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant manufacturing experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Materials Management, Operations Management, or a related field.
APICS or other recognized supply chain certification, including CPIM, CPM, or CIRM.

Responsibilities

Perform material planning and scheduling with Production and Customer Service to support delivery-performance objectives for internal and OEM customers.
Coordinate with Shipping and Receiving to ensure accurate and timely shipments, production receipts, system transactions, and supporting documentation.
Maintain accurate MRP data, supplier records, purchase-order information, and other assigned system data.
Release and maintain production and outside-processing work orders, where applicable.
Review approved requisitions and prepare purchase orders for assigned materials, components, supplies, and services.
Maintain procurement records covering purchases, costs, delivery information, supplier quality or performance, and inventory-related information.
Monitor open purchase orders and communicate with suppliers and internal departments about delivery status, shortages, discrepancies, and other issues affecting production or customer requirements.
Work with Quality, internal users, suppliers, and other personnel to investigate defective or unacceptable goods or services, determine their source, and support corrective action.
Complete MRO requisition, purchase-order entry, receipt, and related transactional activities.
Support improvements to MRP, QAD, and related materials-management processes.
Investigate inventory discrepancies, assist with root-cause identification, and support corrective actions.
Work with Production to maintain and improve Kanban systems and material flow.
Support plant cost-reduction objectives by identifying and participating in purchasing, supplier, inventory, and process-improvement opportunities.
Perform other duties as assigned.