Wilcox Industries

Senior Buyer / Planner

Newington, NH
Full Time
Experienced
The Senior Buyer/Planner’s role will be to provide full support to the Materials Department, including the planning and procurement of materials and services in a timely manner while ensuring vendor requirements and customer needs are met. 

Roles & Responsibilities 
  • Mentor and coach material buyers and planners to help enhance their career and professional development. 
  • Work with the Planning Manager to assign tasks and goals for the Material Buyer/Planners, to include reports on short and long-term material strategies. 
  • Assist in maintaining SIOP goals. 
  • Coordinate and run the daily production meeting and weekly production priority meeting. 
  • Create and implement an effective planning and sourcing strategy for assigned products and programs to minimize unnecessary inventory, maximize cash flow, and ensure the production lines are always sufficiently supplied – LEAN manufacturing focused. 
  • Negotiate terms and conditions with suppliers to include standard terms and conditions as well as complex customer flow downs. 
  • Ensure the purchase of all goods and services comply with company policy and procedures and are in full compliance with all lTAR regulations. 
  • Utilize ERP system for planning material needs to meet delivery dates and provide accurate lead times for orders for specific products and programs. 
  • Maintain required item master data. 
  • Assess material requirements and analyze price and supply data to make business decisions to maximize cashflow. 
  • Analyze MRP data, to maintain information integrity to meet or exceed material requirements. 
  • Issue Purchase Orders for materials and services, usually with established vendors. 
  • Assure that open purchase orders are tracked, followed up on and expedited as needed, communicate status. 
  • Generate rework work orders when required by Operations or Quality Assurance. 
  • Assist with creating and renewing Wilcox/ Supplier Non-Disclosure Agreements. 
  • Delivers briefs, updates and reports as needed and when required. 
  • Other duties as assigned. 
Qualifications & Requirements 
Education & Experience:
  • Associate degree in related discipline is preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 
  • Minimum of 3-5 years’ relevant experience in purchasing or planning. 
Required Skills/Abilities:
  • Regular on-site attendance is a necessary function of this position. 
  • Excellent problem-solving skills. 
  • Ability to function well in a high-paced work environment.
  • Strong team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Must be very organized, detail-oriented and have the capacity to work on multiple issues simultaneously. 
  • Self-motivated, with the ability to prioritize tasks and priorities in accordance with company needs 
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office. 
  • Wilcox is a U.S. government defense contractor, and this position is responsible to control access to export-controlled technology. Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access.
Preferred Skills/Abilities:
  • APICS / NAPM Certification 
  • Familiarity with SAP B1 software 
  • Bachelor's Degree in related discipline 
Physical Requirements:
  • Must be able to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear; use hands and fingers to handle and touch objects, tools, or controls to work in a production environment. Vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus to work. Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer as well as prolonged periods of standing may be required. Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times. 
Wilcox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state or local laws.

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