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    Buyer - Houston, United States - Dover Precision Components

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    DOVER PRECISION COMPONENTS:

    Dover Precision Components DPC (the Company) is part of Dover Corporations (the Parent Company) Pumps and Process solutions segment. DPC holds market leading positions globally and delivers performance-critical solutions across the oil & gas, power generation, marine, industrial, chemical and general processing markets. We design and manufacture mission-critical equipment components to deliver more affordable, cleaner energy solutions and enable manufacturers to operate more efficiently.

    WE DELIVER CUSTOMER SUCCESS

    Dover Precision Components delivers products and services that enhance performance, improve safety, reduce carbon emissions, and accelerate clean energy adoption, through collaborative customer relationships, expert engineering, and an innovative culture. Our strong Company portfolio is comprised of long products and services offered under Cook Compression, Cook Mechanical Field Services, Waukesha Bearings, Waukesha Magnetic Bearings, Inpro/Seal, Bearings Plus, and FW Murphy Production Controls. Our global footprint reaches more than twelve locations in the Americas and more than six locations in Europe and China.

    BUILDING POTENTIAL. SUSTAINING PERFORMANCE. BOOSTING FUTURES.

    We are diligent in recognizing our employees needs and providing an enriching experience through professional developmental opportunities. Our authentic, collaborative company culture, combined with a competitive suite of health and welfare offerings, emulates who we are. We are Dover Precision Components, #LifeAtDPC

    Overview

    The Material Planning Specialist is responsible for supplier management of the DPC issued purchase orders and ERP scheduling requirements, to coordinate suppliers and order execution by suppliers of multiple components, subassemblies, raw materials, finished goods, production equipment, and supplies from approved suppliers within the assigned commodity areas that are utilized to produce DPC Portfolio Finish Goods.

    The Material Planning Specialist will be responsible for optimizing the procurement and sourcing supply chain, follow up of key KPIs and metrics and developing standard work and training others as may be required from a best practice perspective. Works as part of cross-functional team.

    The Material planning Specialist will be responsible to maintain the data in the ERP system and support areas of past due purchase orders update, supplier lead times, BOM, routings and more to ensure the ERP system can operate accordingly to the Planer/ Buyer function.

    Duties and Responsibilities

  • Responsible of data integrity supplier pricing, lead-times, terms, and conditions, obtaining validations, loading and maintaining them in the system.
  • Coordinates purchase orders and demand signals issued from manufacturing plant in U.S. with local suppliers, based on different purchasing method, Kanban, MRP, Blanket getting supplier confirmation, updating system and inform production and planning any risk of supply, expediting supplier deliveries base on changes of demand signal
  • Communicate to suppliers in a daily/weekly basis, urgent requirements also near future demand 1-3 months, or their lead-time, get supplier confirmation requirements can be meet or get details of risk, capacity constraints, raw material constrains, to identify alternate solutions to avoid delays and shortages.
  • Fast solving trouble process, quick communication and response to material shortages, supplier escalation, logistics expedite, alternate supply, expedite receipt and material flow to production in coordination with DPC Supply Chain
  • Utilize ERP system to provide demand data to supplier, demand history, usage, provide visibility of future demand orders and forecast so suppliers can proactively adjust plans to meet DPC requirements
  • Maintain strong supplier communication towards understand supplier process, supplier escalation contact, constrains which may impact deliveries to DPC
  • Collaborate with Purchasing Manager to suggest and implement enhancement to procurement process base on supplier performance, supplier capacity and constrains suggest different procurement methodology such us Kanban, VMI, ROP.
  • Act as liaison between DPC material requirement and supplier production capabilities, cycle time, weekly output rate, material, process, people constrains, to highlight gaps on supply and demand to promote the changes to align supply and demand
  • Assess and lead the development and deployment of material replenishment system with metal stamping suppliers, towards understand supplier capacity, cycle turn around, constrains then in collaboration with planning DPC understand gaps and drive changes on supply or demand to maximize alignment.
  • Work closely with production, scheduling, warehouse, logistics, to understand changes on schedule, daily fluent communication of risk of material delays so team can react to adjust schedule which enable company to keep commit deliveries of product to DPC customers.
  • Partner with engineering and sourcing to identify alternate materials or local suppliers towards mitigate shortages, price increase, lead time increase or excess of raw material
  • Participate actively with product management providing purchase part information related to Engineering Changes, EOL, discontinuity etc.
  • Collaborate with quality to implement supplier score card to provide visibility of current supplier performance, raise and request supplier corrective actions towards to improve supplier performance
  • Qualifications Skills and Experience

  • B.S. degree in Engineering, Business or Supply chain degree.
  • Minimum of 5-7 years supply chain and/or purchasing work experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Qualifications Dover Competencies

  • Proactive and analytical data driven person able to communicate with high efficiency remotely
  • Background in negotiations aimed at minimize supply shortages and overall cost
  • Innate self-learning ability to rapidly adopt and understand DPC systems, process and culture
  • Experience in vendor relations management with supplier of different commodities metal and aluminum, plastic, cables and wiring.
  • Experience leading and facilitating a cross-functional team between supplier, planning and procurement DPC team in geographically diverse locations
  • Problem Solving mindset with a focus in process optimization.
  • Continuous improvement and lean manufacturing mindset
  • CPIM/ APICS certification
  • Ability to multi- task, prioritize workload and manage under constrained time frames
  • To be a great fit for the role:

  • ERP, Visual ERP or any other ERP
  • Proficient in Excel and Power BI
  • CPIM or related certifications
  • Ability to expand bandwidth within Purchasing

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