Buyer/Planner

Mueller Water Products•Cleveland, TN

23d•Onsite

About The Position

Mueller Company (Mueller Co.), the nation's leading manufacturer of flow control devices for the water and gas distribution industries, has an immediate opening for a Buyer/Planner in our Cleveland, TN facility. This role is responsible for purchasing and negotiating materials, equipment, and supplies. The Buyer/Planner will maintain day-to-day communication with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery, system data integrity, and ordering parameters for individual materials. They will also schedule production within the production environment by issuing work orders and maintaining schedules, and maintain ideal inventory levels to ensure on-time deliveries, while maximizing turns and minimizing carrying costs. This position requires reliance on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, performing a variety of complicated tasks with a wide degree of creativity and latitude expected. Understanding the dynamics of effective teamwork to attain higher levels of performance, knowledge of lean manufacturing and demonstration of various lean practices, and a commitment to engage teams in other departments or divisions of the organization are also key aspects of this role.

Requirements

Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to effectively work in a team.
Knowing role on team, based on project/task
Demonstrated ability to successfully achieve goals through influence
Cultural knowledge and sensitivity
Possess and analytical mindset
Ability to adapt to system/technology changes as well as use of current systems
Strong organizational skills
Ability to blend multiple sources of data to formulate opinions and recommendations
Exposure to global thought process and diversity.
Have ability to follow and challenge Standard Work processes daily
Demonstrated Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills
Bachelor’s Degree, business or supply chain preferred
Three to five years of professional supply chain experience

Nice To Haves

JD Edwards system experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Purchasing and negotiating materials, equipment, and supplies.
Maintain day to day communication with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery, system data integrity, and ordering parameters for individual materials.
Schedule production within production environment by issuing work orders and maintaining schedules.
Maintain ideal inventory levels to ensure on-time deliveries, while maximizing turns, and minimizing carrying costs.
Rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
Perform a variety of complicated tasks.
Understand the dynamics of effective teamwork to attain higher levels of performance.
Understand lean manufacturing and can demonstrate various lean practices.
Demonstrate a commitment to engage teams in other departments or divisions of the organization.
Identify roadblocks in material/information flow and manage exceptions.
Highlight data trends for the business.
Demonstrate Risk Awareness and Mitigation.