Buyer

Buyer


Buyer Mason welcomes people who share our determination and high standards to join us in doing work that moves the world forward. We design, manufacture, and market highly engineered products and systems principally for the aerospace and defense markets. Mason, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Transdigm, offers world-class control devices and subsystems such as control grips, throttles, Controls and communications interfaces for today's advanced cockpits, military vehicles, and other specialized applications. Our solutions fall into two broad categories: control products and components. Job Summary Your expertise in procurement and planning will contribute and influence maintaining a stable and efficient supply chain, ensuring Mason can meet customer demands effectively. Work closely with production and engineering to carry out procurement and planning tasks successfully and support in product development. As a Buyer your skills will aid in optimizing inventory, negotiations with key suppliers, and maintaining supplier relationships. Primary Responsibilities Essential responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests.
• Define purchase requirements, planning, schedule and monitor movement of materials, goods and services throughout the product life cycle.
• Review engineering drawings and specifications when preparing RFQ packages to ensure supplier clarity and alignment.
• Run and monitor MRP and Open Order Repots weekly to ensure timely deliveries, assess and properly communicates with appropriate parties any possible delays, assess exception messages to ensure production need dates are met.
• Manage orders and/or project timelines in the event of design changes, resource, material shortages, backlogs or other disruptions.
• Build and maintain supplier relationships; serve as the primary point of contact to resolve supply chain issues quickly and effectively.
• Manage procurement processes to ensure timely acquisition of products from reliable sources.
• Source, evaluate and negotiate with suppliers to obtain competitive pricing, terms and lead times.
• Analyze supplier quotations based on product specifications, cost analysis, delivery terms, lead time, and market conditions.
• Collaborate with quality and inspection teams to investigate nonconforming goods and implement corrective actions.
• Identify, evaluate and vet new sources.
• Plans sequence of fabrication, assembly, installation, and other manufacturing operations for guidance of production operations.
• Expedites operations that delay schedules and alter schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
• Prepares and determines material requirements to support manufacturing schedules and customer requirements.
• Plan and monitor inventory levels to align with customer requirements and company targets.
• Manage and implement strategies to manage long lead-time products effectively.
• Support cross-functional teams in forecasting, demand planning and risk mitigation.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgement and discretion in matters of significance when working with engineering on new programs, negotiating long-term agreements, material requirement planning, cost saving analysis, EOL or obsolescence analysis, and supplier sourcing.
• Develop and maintain production schedules in coordination with operations, engineering, and supply chain teams.
• Balance capacity planning and resource allocation to ensure on-time delivery of customer orders.
• Identify risks to the production plan and propose mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with value stream manager, Customer service team and operations to align supply plans with customer delivery commitments.
• Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from senior staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and work in a fast-paced and demanding environment. The duties and responsibilities are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. The position also requires the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Additionally, it requires the ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Also, ability to understand and carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form is necessary. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Education/Previous Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, Supply Chanin, Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, or equivalent years of directly related experience.
• 5-7 years of experience in Supply Chain.
• Motivated and self-driven with minimal supervision.
• Highly organized and self-disciplined to support multiple programs.
• Exceptional communication, coordination and collaboration with cross functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-passed environment.
• Detailed oriented with strong analytical skills.
• Experience supporting contract reviews and supplier performance.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office with intermediate skills in Excel.
• Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems (INFOR-LN preferred).
• Knowledge reading and interpreting engineering drawings.
• Familiar with DAR/FAR and TINA government requirements.

Other Pay Compensation Range for this Exempt: $80,000-$115,000.00 Salary offered will depend on education, training, specific skills, years of experience and other relevant factors. This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). This position requires either U.S persons (as defined in applicable export regulations) or a non [1] U.S person who is eligible to obtain required export authorization(s). Mason prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.

Compensation details: 80000-115000 Yearly Salary

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