Purchasing Manager

Peco Foods•Walnut Grove, MS

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Purchasing Manager will supervise supply room, support, and department employees. This role is responsible for verifying daily payroll time sheets, managing departmental paperwork such as absentee sheets, vacation requests, and disciplinary action forms, and ensuring compliance with all written corporate and plant policies. The Purchasing Manager will also be familiar with the various types of machinery throughout the processing plant, purchase packaging, plant, and maintenance supplies for the Sebastopol complex, and unload inventory trucks when needed. Additionally, they will issue maintenance supplies, purchase office supplies, and maintain necessary plant inventory levels throughout the year. This role involves scheduling parts pick-up orders from local area supply vendors and filling in for supply clerks when necessary. A key aspect of this role is maintaining the highest possible level of personal hygiene and cleanliness in accordance with plant GMP policies, following written specifications for packing and labeling of products, and physically inspecting products for defects. The Purchasing Manager must also identify and report any suspicious or abnormal situations to their immediate supervisor or plant management official.

Requirements

Working in a warm/cold/wet/damp environment.
Standing/walking 100% of the workday.
Lifting various weights on an as needed basis.
Familiarity with various types of machinery throughout the processing plant.
Knowledge of natural occurring defects (deformity, bruising in excess, infection, discoloration, abscess).
Knowledge of processing defects (FM, bones, extraneous material, feathers, broken/mis-cut, missed heads, torn, fat levels, etc.).
Ability to identify and report suspicious or abnormal situations (product tampering, willful product adulteration, unauthorized employees in restricted areas, potential product adulteration, equipment malfunction).

Responsibilities

Supervise supply room, support, and department employees.
Verify daily payroll time sheets for all employees in the department.
Be responsible for daily paperwork such as absentee sheets, vacation requests, and disciplinary action forms.
Comply with all written corporate and plant policies.
Be familiar with the various types of machinery throughout the processing plant.
Purchase packaging, plant, and maintenance supplies for the Sebastopol complex.
Unload inventory trucks when needed.
Issue out maintenance supplies.
Purchase office supplies for the Sebastopol complex.
Maintain all the necessary plant inventory levels throughout the year.
Schedule parts pick-up orders from local area supply vendors.
Fill-in for any supply clerk when they are out for the day or week.
Maintain the highest possible level of personal hygiene and cleanliness in accordance with plant GMP policies.
Follow the written specification for packing and labeling of products.
Physically inspect products for both natural occurring and processing defects.
Identify and report any suspicious or abnormal situations to their immediate supervisor or plant management official.