Production Planner​/Purchaser

Pay Range

$60,000 - $71,000

Medical, dental, vision, and PTO after 90 days!

Perform scheduling, planning and purchasing tasks in support of plant activity.

• Schedule company wide production requirements for stamping, welding, and assembly areas
• Schedule all outside processing as required by the part routing
• Schedule company shipping activities for company trucks
• Develop and maintain successful relationships with vendors
• Coordinate truck driving route between all outside processes
• Supervise truck driving personnel
• Purchase production materials as required by forecast, maintaining quality and delivery standards while minimizing cost
• Monitor supplier quality for incoming product; reject material and charge back suppliers when and where appropriate with quality manager review
• Maintain production/service inventory counts / turns and manage physical inventory on a monthly basis to support month-end financial activities
• Back-up for Production Supervisor to provide schedule priority and direction to production teams
• Supervise Production Support Coordinator
• Back-up manage Maintimizer perishable/tool stock levels and production data entry as needed for Production Support Coordinator
• Track raw material costs; manage plant scrap sales
• Perform layered audits

High School diploma or GED; 3 to 5 years related experience or equivalent combination of education an experience. Knowledge of scheduling and purchasing function in a manufacturing environment, specifically metal stamping. Knowledge of and use of MRP systems.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel;

reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.