Material Processing Buyer Planner

United Performance Metals•Hamilton, OH

1d•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 make sourcing decisions. The position also involves assessing shop floor workload, executing outside process plans when bottlenecks occur, and initiating the production planning process by reviewing and approving customer sales orders that require outside processing services. Additionally, the role requires understanding and reviewing inventory to ensure efficient use of material resources, monitoring customer contract levels, and planning accordingly. The Material Processing Buyer Planner will create, schedule, and monitor outside processing orders, prepare and issue service order change notices, and process confirmations from outside processors. Maintaining current lead times, service order instructions, and communicating with relevant departments regarding outside processing arrivals are also key responsibilities. The role involves reviewing and processing purchase order acknowledgements and changes, and purchasing MRO items. Inventory control duties include completing cost confirmations, identifying and resolving invoice discrepancies, managing outside inventory effectively, creating stock transfer orders, and generating Scrap Sales Orders. The position also requires assisting the Quality Control Department and driving continuous improvement in the management of outside processing orders and suppliers.

Requirements

Two years of college, or equivalent related experience and/or training of two or three years, with additional vocational training.
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.

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 versus 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.
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.