Buyer

Job Description
Position Summary:
Responsible for the purchasing functions of Des Plaines facility. Ensures that raw materials, outsourcing activities, and purchased finished goods are available when needed for their respective functions.
Responsibilities and Authority:
Purchase raw materials ensuring that the raw material is available when production is ready to produce. This includes placing PO’s, monitoring inventory levels, communicating with end users, ensuring receipt of material.
Utilize MRD/Kanban systems in the process of inventory management.
Utilize MRP/MRD system to release work orders and schedule low volume jobs and jobs requiring assembly.
Coordinate production deliveries of our outsourced products. This includes planning, creation of PO’s & WO’s, scheduling with the vendor, and logistics coordination of raw material & WIPs between the facilities.  
Coordinate and communicate tool repair priority with production when jobs are scheduled.
Purchase production supplies, finished goods, and other third-party resale items for sale to our customers, ensuring materials are available as needed.
Strategically reviews the purchasing history, demands, and purchasing strategy and makes modifications to the ordering process affecting the inventory KPIs and desired pricing metrics.
Coordinate data, tasks, and projects with the Corporate Strategic Sourcing department.
Assist and work on specialty regulatory projects including conflict minerals and supply chain integrity programs.
Ensure department activities adhere to our ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System and that the department is fully compliant with the standard.
Assist in PLS & 80/20 Activities to minimize our purchasing activity, determine better purchasing strategies, and identify potential improvements to our supply chain department. 
Perform administrative tasks such as cycle counts, invoice verification, and resolution of receipts.
 
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, walk, talk or hear; uses hands to finger, handle, or touch objects or controls. Duties include data entry 80% of the time. The employee may lift, push or pull up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.