Planner Analyst
Precision Castparts
Date: 1 day ago
City: Gardena, CA
Contract type: Full time
Position Summary
In this position, you will be responsible for managing a complex supply base ensuring cost targets are met, production timelines are supported, and quality parts are produced.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
Experience & Education
In this position, you will be responsible for managing a complex supply base ensuring cost targets are met, production timelines are supported, and quality parts are produced.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Support sourcing efforts by optimizing cost and terms for all purchases. A strong negotiator able to manage multiple quotes, complex offers and SOW, to obtain the best purchasing terms, including payment schedule, payment terms, lead time, warranty, et.
- Procures for inventory and non-inventory purposes all necessary materials, parts and services, ensuring timely delivery, high quality, and cost-effective pricing to meet customer commitments and desired inventory stock levels
- Through comprehensive long-term supplier agreements and purchase order management, ensures the flow-down of contractually mandated terms to every supplier to which such terms apply
- Establishes and nurtures effective supplier relationships, including the proactive communication of company priorities and evolving product needs
- Track and monitor shipments and communicate status to key partners
- Manage inventory area and support controlled movement of all material according to standard operating procedures for inventory control and preservation.
- Ability to work in a highly operationalized manufacturing environment recognizing calls to action through a variety of communication methods
- Ability to prioritize work through natural understanding of the business objectives both towards customer programs as well as internal business growth and maturity
- Familiar with engineering drawings, machining tolerances, general CNC machining operations
- Experience with aerospace procurement and production is a strong preference
- Understanding of the procure-to-pay process and ability to troubleshoot any issues preventing supplier payment
- Ability to research, qualify, and onboard suppliers for new business requirements, or to replace existing underperforming supply base
- Ability to quickly troubleshoot supplier underperformance, effectively resolving issues or pivoting for alternative solutions to maintain business driven on time delivery
- Demonstrated experience in driving process improvements within a supply chain department
Experience & Education
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Operations or Engineering, Inventory Management or Business or equivalent experience.
- Skilled at negotiation and networking
- Experience 2-5 years of purchasing in Aerospace
- Proficient in using and managing relevant modules of ERP systems (procurement, manufacturing)
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, communications, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Proven working experience in sourcing and supplier management
- Interest in market dynamics along with a keen business sense
- Preferred CPIM certification through APICS, or C.P.M certification through ISM
- Preferred training and experience in Kan Ban, JIT, Lean Manufacturing and pull systems.
- Experience in high volume manufacturing environment
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