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