Production Buyer

Fortive • Everett, WA

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About The Position

The Production Buyer coordinates products through the complete production cycle. The role develops production and supply plans based on demand forecasts, material availability, and manufacturing capacity, and maintains appropriate planning parameters in ERP systems to optimize subassembly production and raw-material supply plans. It evaluates data about processes and systems, resolves inventory, production-schedule, and materials-shortage problems, and recommends countermeasures to prevent recurrence. The Production Buyer also balances vendor, internal-customer, and external-customer needs against the supply and demand for materials and finished goods.

As a member of the Materials team, the Production Buyer coordinates with factory teams to maintain product supply and quality and delivery standards, supports lean materials strategies, works with Strategic Sourcing, and collaborates on continuous improvement and new-product launches. The role may also coordinate and supervise the transfer of new production cells between locations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or a similar field.
• Proven track record in tackling complex inventory-control problems.
• Proficiency in Excel.
• Self-starter who seeks ways to improve processes proactively.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, metric-driven environment.
• 1–4 years of progressive experience in planning, purchasing, and inventory control within a lean manufacturing environment.
• Good time-management and organizational skills.
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple projects at once.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Communicate and coordinate with factory teams to ensure continuous product supply and meet quality and delivery standards.
• Resolve vendor issues that could stop production lines.
• Implement consignment, Kanban, just-in-time, postponement, and other materials strategies to reduce inventory while maintaining availability.
• Develop inventory-control action plans and countermeasures with schedulers, development teams, and factory teams.
• Work with the Strategic Sourcing Team on low-cost regional sourcing, supplier assessment, and supplier management.
• Participate in and initiate continuous improvement using appropriate Fortive Business System (FBS) tools.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the New Product Introduction team to support successful product launches from engineering design through factory production.
• May coordinate and supervise the integration of new production cells from one location to another.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time