Hi5 is seeking a Multitasking Wizard to join our two-person purchasing team. The ideal person will be very sharp, a quick thinker and calm temperament.
Responsibilities:
- Plans, prepares, issues, and controls production schedules and material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of approved materials to meet production requirements.
- Have a strong understanding of standard production flow and processes
- Efficiently assign workloads to minimize company costs and meet delivery deadlines
- Strong ability to generate reports and analyze data
- Place purchase orders based on reports
- Strong organizational skills need to track hundreds of parts daily
- Strong ability to stay calm and communicate between outside vendors, and inside departments including Production, Purchasing, Engineering and Sales
- Corrects variances and completes corrective action plan
- Oversees process for physical counts of finished goods, raw materials, and work in process (WIP) inventory, identifying and solving inventory variances.
- Participate in cost reductions and productivity improvement programs.
- Work pro‐actively, on a daily basis, with the manufacturing supervisors, procurement and other departments to ensure schedules are maintained.
Experience:
- 3+ years of purchasing in manufacturing environment
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Multitasking Wizard
- Computer aptitude (expert in Microsoft excel)
- Calm temperament
- Excellent written communication a must
- Detailed orientated; Meticulous
- Consistent punctual attendance