Procurement and Planning Lead

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Build Manufacturing

Tekna was founded in 1988 in the heart of Southwest Michigan where creative vision and hard work laid the foundation for a business that continues to grow in a rapidly evolving industry. The rigor and attention to detail that comes with designing for the medical industry has awarded us success in supporting both major companies and start-ups from early stage development to commercialization.

The same principles apply as we've expanded to serve customers in a wide variety of other industries including consumer and industrial goods, electronics, and appliances. Tekna's project portfolio is incredibly diverse covering medical, life science, consumer and industrial product categories. Tekna is largely client focused offering design consulting, contract manufacturing and original equipment manufacturing services. Tekna's cross functional teams include Design Engineering, Industrial Design, CAD, Procurement, Production and Quality which offers a friendly and supportive team atmosphere.

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Build Manufacturing is a family of industrial businesses combining cutting-edge enabling technologies, operational superiority, and strategic M&A to build America's next-generation industrial company. Re:

Build leverages deep expertise in operations management and technology to supercharge the performance of its subsidiaries by implementing core technologies across industrial platforms in diversified growth markets. Our goal is to help revitalize the U.S. manufacturing base over the coming decades, creating substantial opportunities for our employees and the communities where we operate.

If you like a fast-paced environment where individuals can stretch and be challenged with a diverse set of projects, we offer a great deal of variety and empower our staff to take on as much responsibility as they can handle, offering a helping hand and experienced-based coaching and the support of a highly competent team. Our goal is to enable our employees to achieve their fullest potential, and through our association with Re:

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The Procurement and Planning Lead is responsible for sourcing, purchasing, and planning the materials and components required to support the wire harness production line within our manufacturing facility. This role ensures material availability, cost efficiency, and supplier performance align with the production schedule and customer delivery commitments. As the central operational point of contact for the wire harness line, this position coordinates demand intake, production planning, scheduling, and cross-functional communication to support on-time delivery and operational efficiency.

This role acts as a key liaison between Suppliers, Materials, Project Management, Sales, Engineering, Quality, and Production, and will play a critical part in establishing scalable procurement and planning processes that support increasing production volume and complexity.

• Policy and process development
• Procurement & Planning metrics development and management:
  Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Customer Service.
• Source, negotiate, and purchase wire, cable, connectors, terminals, splices, and other components required for the wire harness line.
• Creates and manages purchase orders and supplier corrective actions.
• Manage supplier relationships, evaluate supplier performance, and resolve supply nonconformities in partnership with Quality.
• Issue purchase orders, track order status, and expedite deliveries to meet the wire harness line's production schedule.
• Order management.
• Fosters relationships with the local and regional supply base in line with the Re:
  
  Build Way.
• Analyze pricing and identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising quality or delivery.
• Maintain accurate procurement and planning records, item data, BOM accuracy, and pricing within the ERP/MRP system.
• Leads the supply and demand forecast/planning needs for required materials via tools, systems, and procedures.
• Manage inventory strategy for the wire harness line, balancing service levels against excess and obsolete inventory.
• Align customer requirements, project timelines, material availability, and production priorities to drive operational efficiency.
• Provide capacity visibility and communicate workload, capacity constraints, schedule impacts, and delivery commitments across the organization.
• Serve as the central operational point of contact for the wire harness line, support the flow from demand identification through production completion.

• 5+ years of progressive operational supply chain experience (purchasing, planning, supplier management, inventory, etc.) in a production environment required
• Proven results showing impactful work to the business via documented cost savings, working capital improvements, process improvement, forecasting, etc.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in supply chain management, logistics,…