Maintenance Purchaser
Maintenance Purchaser
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Reports to Maintenance Director
Job Summary:
The Maintenance Purchaser will manage the procurement and purchasing related to maintenance equipment building and production. The purchaser will work directly with the Maintenance Director the Parts Clerk and Maintenance technicians as well as updating and maintaining the work order system daily. This position is responsible for obtaining materials and services for the planned/unplanned work orders. This position is also responsible for developing relationships with vendors sourcing alternate suppliers negotiating price quotations developing metrics and tracking costs.
Office Environment: 90 of the work is conducted in an office setting involving time spent on computer research project management and communication with team members and stakeholders. Frequent participation in both inperson and virtual meetings including project updates strategy sessions and presentations to management and stakeholders.
Production Environment: 7 Regular visits to the production areas will involve exposure to machinery noise varying temperatures humidity and wet conditions.
Travel:<3 Occasional travel for training meetings conferences etc.
Schedule: Flexible schedule including evenings weekends and holidays as needed based on operational requirements.
Qualifications
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the planned/unplanned work order backlog by:
- Reviewing backlog and planning lists to verify parts are on hand or ordered.
- Clarifying incomplete or poorly defined order requests.
- Determining the appropriate priority for ordering and shipping.
- Assist Maintenance Leads in the timely of emergency or critical priority jobs.
- Assist with optimization of spare parts inventory.
- Build and maintain Bill of Materials (BoMs).
- Assist in the preparation and participate in both internal and external audits.
- Work within CMMS work order system to manage maintenance work.
- Present monthly report to determine if goals and objectives are met (to include budget attainment upcoming expenses utility costs).
- Coordinate with supervisors on job priority and establish priority levels for the jobs that need to be completed and materials that will be needed to finish the jobs.
- Procurement of materials from suppliers.
- Take requests from maintenance personnel for materials needed to complete other jobs that may come up.
- Obtain quotes from vendors for maintenance materials and services.
- Work with accounting ensuring that purchase orders in the system are accurate.
- Track orders and costs associated with certain jobs.
- Build schedules for both short shutdowns and turnarounds working closely with the Maintenance Supervisor Maintenance Foreman Production Supervisors and Plant Manager (this includes all aspects of the outages).
- Maintain Maintenance Reliability database and perform necessary analysis to include equipment cost and equipment failures.
- Work with suppliers and various departments on costreduction strategies.
- Assist Parts Clerk and Maintenance Planner when needed.
- Generate Purchase Orders.
- Ship out Materials going out for repairs using UPS FEDEX or another freight company.
- Active participation in 5S Continuous Improvement and Kaizen activities.
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED required.
- 1 years experience working in a Purchasing role within a manufacturing environment preferably.
- Strong Working Knowledge in CMMS systems (preference given to Emaint experience)
- Working Knowledge of Deacom Microsoft Projects and other computer/software programs.
- Fluent in computer entry
- Bilingual preferably Spanish/English preferred.
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and work experience in a food manufacturing environment.
- Strong organizational and multitasking skills
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work well with vendors (in person electronically and via phone)
- Good computer skills. Experience with Word and Excel is a plus.
- High level of enthusiasm with the ability to work in a fastpaced changing environment
- Ability to work with little to no supervision
- Basic understanding of equipment design and electrical mechanical hydraulic pneumatic and related parts and their functions.
Working Conditions/ Physical Requirements:
- Regular visits to production areas will involve exposure to machinery high noise levels varying temperatures humidity and wet conditions.
- Requires the ability to lift carry push or pull medium weights up to 50 pounds.
- Must be comfortable sharing office space with other professionals and performing repetitive computerbased tasks. This includes extended periods of sitting reaching with hands and arms and using input devices such as a keyboard mouse and other tools. The role requires maintaining focus on detailed screen work for prolonged durations including tasks such as data analysis report preparation and troubleshooting operational issues.
- Must be able to sit stand walk reach stretch stoop and bend for extended periods.
- Ability to work around ingredients and/or finished products containing food allergens.
- Must be able to communicate through various channels including phone email facetoface and videoconferencing.
The physical demands described in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform this job. Other duties or tasks may be assigned as required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
At Cloverdale Foods base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base hiring pay range for this role is between $22.00 $25.00 per hour and your actual base pay within that range will depend upon a variety of factors including but not limited to jobrelated knowledge skill set level of experience and geographic market location.
Other components of Cloverdale Foods total compensation package include life insurance medical dental and vision coverage payforperformance merit increases and 401(k) with employer match paid vacation weekly massage reimbursement and more.
Cloverdale Foods Company offers a competitive compensation package and an excellent benefits program. For confidential consideration please send your resume to or Fax:. To comply with government recordkeeping requirements please go to and send us a completed Online Application along with your resume/cover letter.
Cloverdale Foods Company is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
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