Strategic Buyer & Planner for Inventory Excellence

Electroswitch; Raynham (MA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunrise Technologies, an affiliate of Electroswitch, seeks an experienced Buyer/Planner to join our Raynham, Massachusetts team. The role supports manufacturing operations by purchasing materials and components, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring material availability to meet production needs.

The ideal candidate has hands-on purchasing, production planning, inventory control, and ERP/MRP experience in a manufacturing setting, and thrives in a Lean environment with a focus on

Qualifications

• Hands-on purchasing, production planning, and inventory control experience.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong collaboration with production and planning teams.

Responsibilities

• Purchase materials, components, supplies, and services for production.
• Review MRP reports, requisitions, inventory requirements, and production demand.
• Create, manage, and expedite purchase orders for on-time delivery.
• Evaluate suppliers on price, quality, lead time, and delivery performance.
• Negotiate pricing and maintain supplier relationships.
• Maintain blanket purchase orders and monitor supplier performance.
• Resolve supplier issues including late deliveries, pricing discrepancies, RMAs, credits, and replacements.
• Maintain Kanban systems in a Lean manufacturing environment.
• Monitor inventory levels, safety stock, Kanban replenishment, kitting, staging.
• Perform cycle counts and assist physical inventories.
• Investigate inventory and purchase-price variances.
• Identify excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory.

Job description

Sunrise Technologies, an affiliate of Electroswitch, seeks an experienced Buyer/Planner to join our Raynham, Massachusetts team. The role supports manufacturing operations by purchasing materials and components, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring material availability to meet production needs.

The ideal candidate has hands-on purchasing, production planning, inventory control, and ERP/MRP experience in a manufacturing setting, and thrives in a Lean environment with a focus on