Buyer/ Planner

Stolle Machinery Company•Centennial, CO

64d•$80,000 - $85,000

About The Position

The Buyer/Planner schedules and releases shop orders, maintains balanced work center loads, oversees the supply of raw materials, and manages scheduling for shop orders requiring outside operations. The role ensures work is scheduled to meet customer requirements and works with manufacturing supervisors to support on-time delivery and established manufacturing goals. It also oversees completion of reporting tools that support manufacturing objectives. The position generally works 40 hours per week and may include on-call status, evenings, and/or weekends. It involves a manufacturing environment, including work with or around machine-shop oils, coolants, and other common chemicals, and requires use of personal protective equipment. The anticipated closing date of the job posting is 10/5/2026.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, business, or supply chain.
A manufacturing-related discipline and 3–4 years of experience in production planning or scheduling.
Familiarity with manufacturing in a metal-cutting environment, including turning and milling, and a thorough understanding of various metal-cutting tools.
2–3 years of experience with an ERP system; IFS is preferred.
Strong Microsoft Office skills, with emphasis on Excel.
Strong communication skills and ability to work from verbal and/or written instructions with minimal supervision.
Ability to speak English and work in a team environment.
Ability to occasionally lift 50 pounds, stand for extended periods, and climb stairs.
Ability to use required personal protective equipment, including eye, hearing, hand, and foot protection, as well as other PPE as required.

Responsibilities

Use IFS queries to identify newly released shop order requisitions, create and schedule shop orders to meet customer needs, and manage their smooth release and flow to manufacturing.
Manage manufacturing work center workloads and maintain balanced IFS graphs; communicate capacity issues to management and help determine appropriate actions.
Schedule all machine-shop orders using IFS scheduling tools.
Maintain production capacity charts and attend production meetings.
Prioritize manufacturing projects based on need and identify expediting requirements.
Identify work-center bottlenecks and constraints and collaborate with manufacturing on alternative internal solutions.
Coordinate outsourcing of shop orders that require special processing and offloading of manufacturing shop orders.
Purchase raw materials used to manufacture piece parts.
Oversee timely completion of reports, dashboards, and activities, including on-time delivery charts for the shop floor, daily scrap reports, daily expedite lists, planning orders, oversupply reports, late shop order queries, and weekly shop order load reports.
Perform additional responsibilities and duties as assigned.
Perform duties in conjunction with EHS personnel in a manner that does not jeopardize the safety of the employee or others.