Buyer Planner

Victaulic • McMinnville, TN

7d • Onsite

About The Position

This role owns the day-to-day planning, purchasing, and material flow for assigned product lines, ensuring the right material is in the right place at the right time to meet customer commitments. You’ll sit at the intersection of production, suppliers, and the shop floor — balancing capacity, inventory health, and supplier performance to keep manufacturing running smoothly and customers satisfied. The role blends tactical execution with continuous improvement, using data, ERP systems, and Lean principles to drive delivery, reduce waste, and strengthen supplier partnerships.

Requirements

• Minimum Associates Degree (2yr)
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in Purchasing, Material Control or Manufacturing planning
• Strong analytical problem solving ability
• Customer Service driven
• Good oral and written communications skills
• Experience in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Suite is required.
• Must be goal and detail oriented, reliable, self-motivated, and able to multi-task effectively.
• Thorough understanding of steel and rubber specifications and tolerances.
• Good organizational and analytical problem-solving skills required.
• Knowledge of Country of Origin and/or domestic or AIS requirements

Nice To Haves

• AS400/ Profound preferred
• MRP BPCS/CIC/BPA Mendix Qliksense

Responsibilities

• Efficiently planning, purchasing, and managing of the assigned supply points and/or product lines and their respective suppliers to deliver finished products to the customer and maintaining a high level of customer service.
• Reviews open customer orders/shop orders, shop and/or equipment capacity and historical data to help prepare a daily production plan while working closely with Shop Floor supervisors to ensure all customer commitment dates are being met.
• Releases purchase orders for production material, floor stock items and all purchases to support the manufacturing needs for assigned product line.
• Gains specialized knowledge of specialty component options such as, but not limited to: roll from plate or pipe, shear from plate or flat bar, and alternate and unique material grades.
• Uses available inventory replenishment methods and practices to insure on hand minimums are kept, to minimize dead or slow moving and scrap inventory and maximum availability of inventory for active items.
• Knows how to resolve problems and discrepancies with quality, delivery dates, quantity, and invoicing of purchased commodities.
• Develops and manages the various databases to ensure systems work smoothly.
• Works with manager and operations management team to establish safety stock positions, best stocking locations and to re-size Kanbans and rack locations and sizing.
• Learns lean manufacturing principles, develops plans for streamlining processes and procedures and attends FEM cost reduction and inventory reduction meetings.
• Works well in a team environment including warehouse, manufacturing, customer service, maintenance, and shipping teams so customer requirement goals are met.
• Able to adapt quickly and knows several problem-solving techniques.
• Is proficient in expediting suppliers and logistics and is familiar with impact order management.
• Escalates when necessary.
• Can manage tactical duties with Suppliers and report out on Supplier Performance.
• Appraise vendors’ performance based on metrics such as on time delivery, accuracy and quality of material and owns the tactical day to day supplier relationship.
• Participate in and use Quality Improvement Process in resolving problems in the work environment.

Benefits

• Victaulic is a leader in pipe joining solutions, with over 5,500 employees involved in some of the most prestigious construction projects worldwide.
• From the Hoover Dam to Bird’s Nest National Olympic Stadium in Beijing, Victaulic is there—increasing stability and sustainability wherever we go.
• While working for a fast-growing global leader is attractive, most Victaulic employees feel our best attributes are what we do for our people.
• This means doing things like building from within, sticking to our word, taking care of each other, and doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
• This blend of extraordinary opportunity and genuine caring is why so many people choose to build their lives and careers with us.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree