Buyer/Planner

Mueller Water Products•Cleveland, TN

25d•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 relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, performing a variety of complicated tasks. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. The role requires understanding the dynamics of effective teamwork to attain higher levels of performance, knowledge of lean manufacturing and the ability to demonstrate various lean practices, and a commitment to engage teams in other departments or divisions of the organization.

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.
Demonstrated Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills

Nice To Haves

JD Edwards system experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Responsible for 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
Understands lean manufacturing and can demonstrate various lean practices
Demonstrate a commitment to engage teams in other departments or divisions of the organization
Follow and challenge Standard Work processes daily
Identify roadblocks in material/information flow and manage exceptions
Highlight data trends for the business
Demonstrated Risk Awareness and Mitigation