Supply Chain Specialist

Responsibilities

• Oversees the integrity of inventory and restocking of items in inventory. Manages onsite inventory, which may include spare parts.
• Processes repairs for stock; puts away stock; timestamps repair parts; pulls parts; delivers component parts to technicians for repairs.
• Controls inventory and material from vendors keeping within established department budget; proposes changes to stock levels and reorder levels for effective inventory management; analyzes inventory records.
• Processes requisitions; monitors stock levels and parts; enters order and stocking data in tracking program; receives purchase orders and stocks items; checks on status of orders and expedites late material orders.
• Maintains cross‑reference system for optimal usage; tracks and updates nonconforming parts.
• Works closely with department managers/supervisors to assure areas stay within budget.
• Assists with inventory problem resolution; oversees the integrity of inventory and resolves discrepancies; participates in semi‑annual physical inventory; works with Accounting and auditors to assure accuracy.
• Participates in available training devoted to purchasing professionalism and to acquire supervisory and management skills.
• Sources and evaluates vendors who can supply plant level services.
• May spend extensive time supporting purchasing team in researching difficult to find and expensive parts or materials.
• Recommends the reduction and/or transfer of slow‑moving and obsolete inventory.
• Oversees the follow‑up of past‑due orders and performs activities to reduce POE and invoice grief.
• Establishes and maintains an aggressive cost reduction program, reporting results to department management.
• Assists Customer Service agents and Operations personnel with system parts transactions.
• Places claim with OEM's to replace defective parts under warranty.
• Confers with department managers and/or supervisors to determine status of scheduled tasks.
• Ensures ISO conformance.
• May, under supervision and training, create and administer a sequential work schedule via a computerized scheduling system including drawing up a master schedule, planning and scheduling workflow, planning sequence of operations, expediting operations that delay schedules and altering schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Participates in Service/Quality Initiative; continually improves processes; quantitatively monitors processes. Completes required quality core classes and uses skills and techniques presented. Uses the Core Values in work environment. Adheres to company/customer safety procedures.

• Associate’s degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two‑year college or technical school; and three years of related experience and/or training; or five years equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; write simple correspondence; effectively present information in one‑on‑one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization; add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; compute rate, ratio, and percent and draw and interpret bar graphs; apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form;
  
  handle problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Must be a team player, organized, self‑motivated and able to prioritize.
• Must have outstanding people and communication skills to interact with other team members, customers, and management.
• Personal Discipline
• Communications
• Customer Focus

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands/fingers to handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb, ascend/descend or balance to heights that may require a ladder or lift; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl in confined spaces; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds.

The employee is regularly required to use close vision and color vision. The…