Materials Manager

Overhead Door; Williamsport (Lycoming County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Overhead Door in Williamsport, PA seeks a Senior Buyer with 8+ years in discrete manufacturing planning, scheduling and purchasing. The role focuses on MPS, material availability and build-to-order production, coordinating intercompany material movements and daily purchasing tasks to ensure timely supply for production.

Responsibilities include developing feasible schedules, keeping capacity and forecasts accurate, and leveraging Oracle ASCP to optimize the supply chain.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in discrete manufacturing planning, scheduling and purchasing with MRP/ERP.
• 2 years of leadership experience required.
• Experience with Oracle ERP/ASCP preferred.
• Strong Excel skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• APICS certification highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for purchasing, planning, inventory control and master production scheduling (MPS) for build-to-order manufacturing.
• Develop valid, feasible production schedules for finished goods based on equipment, labor and material availability.
• Provide daily production schedules to manufacturing for finished goods and subassemblies.
• Coordinate intercompany movements of materials and products.
• Drive material demand for Purchasing; monitor availability to support schedules.
• Manage purchasing to leverage commodity structure, identify alternate vendors and high-volume items.
• Negotiate site pricing with Operations Director; perform cost-benefit analyses.
• As Senior Buyer, execute daily purchasing tasks to support production needs at both factories.
• Determine customer order ship dates based on material availability and capacities; resolve conflicts.
• Lead efforts to reduce inventories while maintaining customer service levels.
• Maintain capacity plan and material forecast for readiness.
• Review New Product Introductions and promotions to ensure SCM support.
• Interact with sales, marketing, SCM, Operations and manufacturing to achieve objectives.
• Utilize Oracle ASCP and keep system data accurate for master scheduling.

Skills

Purchasing

Planning

Inventory control

Master production scheduling

Oracle ASCP

MRP/ERP

APICS certification

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or Technical field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

The position will be responsible for purchasing, planning, inventory control and master production scheduling (MPS) activities for manufacturing operations in a build to order environment.

Develop valid, feasible production schedules for finished goods and component items based on equipment, labor and raw material availability.

Provide daily production schedules to manufacturing for finished goods and build-to-stock subassemblies.

Coordinate intercompany movements of materials/products

Drive material demand for Purchasing, monitoring availability of purchased items to ensure support of production schedules.

Manage the purchasing function to include leveraging the functionalized commodity structure, identifying alternate vendors and purchasing high volume items and materials.

Working with the Operations Director, negotiate site unique pricing and develop cost benefit analysis' and make buy assessments with the commodity sourcing structure.

Working in a dual role as a Senior Buyer, execute daily purchasing tasks to ensure timely and accurate support of production needs at both factories.

Determine customer order ship dates (order promising) based on material availability/lead times, current production schedules and capacities. Resolve conflicts to support target ship dates.

Lead Operational Effort to reduce inventories while maintaining customer service levels

Maintain an accurate capacity plan and material forecast to ensure production readiness and customer fulfillment.

Review New Product Introductions, and Promotion calendar to ensure that Supply Chain can support all program requirements.

Interact frequently with sales, marketing, Supply Chain, Operations and manufacturing personnel to accomplish objectives.

Effectively utilize the Oracle Advanced Supply Chain Planning (ASCP) in performance of duties and responsibilities. Maintain accurate and timely information in the system as it pertains to the master scheduling function.

Minimum 8 years professional experience in discrete manufacturing planning, scheduling and purchasing using formal MRP-Supply Chain Planning and ERP system (preferably Oracle) with 2 years of leadership experience required.

Heavy exposure or direct experience in material planning, purchasing and inventory management required.

APICS certification highly desirable.

Proficient skills with Microsoft Office Suite especially Excel.

Education

Bachelor degree with emphasis in Business or Technical field required.