Material Processing Buyer Planner

all O'Neal Industries' Affiliates•Hamilton, OH

14h•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for initiating, sourcing, and following up on requirements for outside processing and warehousing. The Material Processing Buyer Planner will develop and maintain supplier relationships, support sales with quick turnarounds on quotes, and build a database of processing sources. The position involves assessing shop floor workload, executing outside process plans, and managing production planning for customer sales orders requiring outside processing. Key responsibilities include understanding and reviewing inventory, monitoring customer contract levels, creating and scheduling outside processing orders, and processing service order change notices and confirmations. The role also requires maintaining current lead times, managing service order instructions, communicating with receiving and supply chain departments, and processing purchase order acknowledgements and changes. Additionally, the Buyer Planner will purchase MRO items, complete cost confirmation in the receiving process, identify and resolve invoice discrepancies, manage outside inventory, and generate scrap sales orders. Collaboration with the Quality Control department for testing and inspections, processing mill returns, and driving continuous improvement in outside processing management are also essential. No supervisory responsibilities are included in this role.

Requirements

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals in English.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak and/or present effectively before groups of customers/suppliers, and employees of the organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, percent, discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry and to draw and interpret graphical data.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Two years of college, or equivalent related experience and/or training of two or three years, with additional vocational training.

Responsibilities

Initiate, source, and follow-up on requirements for outside processing and warehousing.
Develop and maintain supplier relationships with inside and outside representatives.
Support sales with quick turnarounds on quotes and follow-ups.
Build and maintain a database of all processing sources, indicating preferred vs. approved sources.
Make sourcing decisions and/or recommendations to product management or supply chain manager.
Align with sales and/or Supplier Process Lead to establish and onboard new processing suppliers.
Develop a thorough understanding of the current operating system as it pertains to outside processing planning duties.
Assess shop floor workload and execute outside process plan when a bottleneck occurs.
Initiate production planning process by reviewing and approving customer sales orders requirements that entail outside processing services.
Understand and review inventory to ensure the best use of existing material resources.
Monitor assigned customer contract levels for material requiring outside processing and plan accordingly.
Create, schedule, and monitor completion of outside processing orders.
Prepare and issue service order change notices.
Review and process service order confirmation from outside processors.
Maintain current lead times from outside processors on the intranet.
Maintain service order instructions master in Stratix Library.
Maintain communication with receiving and supply chain departments regarding outside processing arrivals.
Review and process purchase order acknowledgements/confirmation from the mills.
Follow up with mill/UPM buyers when a PO is not acknowledged within an acceptable timeframe.
Provide unacknowledged PO analytics regularly to the supply chain team.
Review and process purchase order changes including but not limited to estimated delivery date and surcharge cost changes.
Purchase MRO items as requested to support organization needs.
Complete cost confirmation step in the receiving process within the ERP system.
Identify mill invoice discrepancies by checking freight charges, surcharges, and base cost per pound.
Resolve receiving process delays internally and/or externally including cost discrepancies with mill partners and internally with the Quality team.
Complete return from outside processing costing step in Stratix.
Identify outside processor invoice discrepancies by checking weight, processing cost, and freight charges.
Ensure all outside inventory is managed effectively and returned timely.
Create stock transfer orders as needed.
Generate Scrap Sales Orders.
Assist the Quality Control (QC) Department with the scheduling of 3rd party testing, material inspections, and the cutting of samples as needed.
Process Mill Returns as directed by the supplier quality team.
Drive continuous improvement in management of outside processing orders and suppliers.
Perform all additional duties as requested by the manager.