Plant Buyer

Dawn Food Products Inc • Burlington, NL

1d • CA$71,550 - CA$107,330 • Onsite

About The Position

Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

This is a contract opportunity for 6-7 months reporting to the Materials Manager and will be onsite at the Burlington Manufacturing plant. The plant buyer is responsible for ensuring availability of ingredients and packaging to meet production schedules and customer fill rates. This role will work closely with scheduling, warehousing, inventory control and production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management field or related degree.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of work experience in purchasing or scheduling in a manufacturing environment.
• Must have operational knowledge of SAP, Excel, Word, & Microsoft Outlook and/or ability to learn these skills.
• The ability to multi-task in high pressure situations and to always maintain a positive & caring attitude.
• Requires strong organizational skills, is dedicated and a true team player.

Nice To Haves

• APICS certification a plus.

Responsibilities

• Creates Purchase Order for the plant's raw materials and packaging, purchases utilizing existing and approved vendors and Dawn Buying Programs to ensure the timely receipt of quality goods and materials
• Maintains targeted inventory levels in adherence with best-in-class practices at Dawn.
• Works to resolve availability issues with a sense of urgency and escalates to the manager when or if there are production scheduling implications or customer shortages.
• Continuously looks for improvement opportunities within one’s responsibilities and those that impact the supply chain results.
• If necessary, will perform required expediting functions to meet customer and production scheduling requirements but main objective will be to avoid added costs.
• Works closely with scheduling and inventory control to make sure ingredient inventory is available to meet the production plan and line stoppages are avoided.
• Interfaces with Accounts Payable and Purchasing Departments to resolve P.O. pricing &/or quantity issues and encourage prompt vendor payments.
• Demonstrates the “Dawn Values” of Team Dawn and supports the Dawn Circle of Excellence.

Benefits

• Competitive Pay
• Professional training
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level