**What you will do?**:- ** Directs the procurement of materials, components, supplies, equipment and services that meet the operation's requirements for quality, delivery, price and terms, lead times, and inventory levels. Commitment to Quality: Purchase from suppliers evaluated for their ability to provide materials and services that conform to specified requirements.**:- ** Comply with the guidelines and regulations of Environmental Health & Safety.**:**How you will do it?**:- ** Responsible for procurement of MRO and raw material components, including electronic parts, molded parts, electromechanical, machined parts, and refrigeration components.**:- ** Participate in negotiations of long-term contracts with tier one suppliers.**:- ** Implement cost savings procedures in tool crib; create and implement min-max system to assure indirect supplies/machine/fixtures spare parts are available.**:- ** Manages procurement of materials to meet the goals of JCI regarding inventory levels, turns, cost, quality and customer requirements.**:- ** Monitor weekly basis in compliance with the KPI reports**:- ** Manages, develops, motivates and trains material planning staff.**:- ** Develops and recommends procedures and methods for managing the supply chain management program.**:- ** Complies with corporate and plant Purchasing goals, objectives, policies, strategies, and procedures.**:- ** Teams up with design engineering functions to evaluate alternate material and process changes.**:- ** E&O review and follow up with actions to minimize inventory impact**:- ** Support procurement in reduction initiatives, cost & lead time reduction, supplier consolidation, inventory management programs with supply base that includes vendor stocking, consignment, vendor-managed inventory.**:- ** Maintain inventory at lowest possible level while ensuring efficient operational processes and maintain customer delivery expectations**:- ** Performs special projects related to function as assigned.**:**What are we looking for?**:- ** Bachelor's degree (preferably in supply chain management, industrial engineering, or operations management) with experience in a manufacturing or manufacturing support.**:- ** 5 years of related experience.**:- ** At least two years as supervisor preferably in a supply chain role.**:- ** Good communication skills both written and verbal (bilingual).**:- ** Experienced, working in a fast paced high volume manufacturing environment.**:- ** Lean manufacturing knowledge.**:- ** Responsible, well organized, immediate response to all internal and external customers.**:- ** APICS Certification in CPIM Preferred.**: