Buyer/Planner/Expeditor

Buyer and Planner

Role Summary/Purpose

The Planner/Buyer Contractor will be a key member of the Oilfield Technology Materials team in the production of cutting edge technology that serves a broad portfolio of Oil&Gas applications.

You will support execution of quarterly build plan and manage the sourcing cycle of products and services from specific vendors to ensure cost, quality, and on-time delivery targets are achieve

Essential Responsibilities

- Support the Purchasing Team to Achieve best value, balanced against optimum quality and schedule needs
- Create & execute procurement plans ensuring all parts are delivered to specification at negotiated price to allow on time release of the build plan
- Identify & Expedite deliveries with suppliers, confirm dates, enter data on SAP/Excel and monitor requirements.
- Manage inventory for assigned parts portfolio, aligning material input to support customer requirements while financial inventory objectives are accomplished (safety stock calculation/Make vs Buy/slow moving inventory/MOQs)
- Work with the Master Scheduler to develop and execute the Production Plan for his/her responsible products to meet customer, intercompany and forecast demands.
- Use daily and long range scheduling to drive Material Requirements and proactively set levels of production output
- Actively communicate across business functions to effectively coordinate operations between Fulfillment, Production, Sourcing and Sales
- Facilitate Engineering change requests implementation and items non-conformance resolution. (Stock at vendor, Open PO, Raw Material, WIP and Finished Goods)
- Write, manage, and update the production control data and working rules and drive cost and cycle time reduction with supplier base using Six Sigma methodology
- Promote customer satisfaction and develop positive customer relationships
- Maintain Materials, Routing, PIR and BOM master records to support product build & purchasing of parts

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or significant work experience in manufacturing planning, production or purchasing.
- Experience in a Planning/Purchasing role using an ERP/MRP system
- Experience of ERP systems and advanced level understanding of concepts and principles (SAP MM/PD/SD preferential)
- Strong sense of urgency with balance of process compliance
- Ability to communicate effectively, internally and externally, at all levels
- Capable of working autonomously with strong influencing skill to help drive customer demands within the business
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload in a double digit growth business

PLEASE APPLY ACCORDINGLY FOR IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION. ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE WILLING TO UNDERGO CLEARANCE.