Production Planning and Purchasing Specialist
Plan the production process and manage the suppliers/CMs and purchasing activity to enable that plan to be according to standards that meet the highest quality, cycle time, and OTD goals. The production planning and purchasing specialist will be the one to ensure our finished goods and the material used to make them are procured and produced on or before time for distribution in a profitable manner. The specialist will be well-versed in optimizing manufacturing science to continuously improve our production planning and purchasing process to ensure zero misses to OTD times. Advanced communication and computer skills are required for this role.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as the production gatekeeper for order priorities and commitments. Work with the production supervisors to set priority of orders daily to meet OTD goals.
- Ahead-of-time purchasing of all production raw material, production supplies. Chemicals, gases, etc. to ensure no OTD is missed due to lack of materials.
- Proactively look ahead at orders scheduled for future weeks and formulate a plan to execute on delivering to those orders.
- Spend a minimum of 50% of your working hours inside the cleanroom tracking/monitoring every order and identifying bottlenecks and working with the supervisors to resolve them.
- PO acceptance and Sales order entry into Sage.
- Ensuring revenue goals are met through meticulous planning, proper order spacing and allocation to capacity.
- Responsible for ensuring WT is opened and production kits are being delivered to assembly ahead of time.
- Ensure sufficient finished goods stock inventory maintained for high volume products.
- Upkeep and Continuous improvement of our production planning process and systems to drive accurate planning and meeting production goals.
- Staying on top of each outgoing PO to ensure they are being tracked for On Time Delivery from the vendor/supplier/subcontractor to LCDG. Tracking the POs until the order is cleared through receiving.
- Frequent communication with vendors/suppliers/subcontractors on status of each order.
- Getting quotes from suppliers/vendors/subcontractors.
- Negotiating lower prices and volume pricing with vendors/suppliers/subcontractors.
- Ensuring accuracy of outgoing POs and issuing vendor/supplier/subcontractor scorecards.
- Working with the Quality Manager to qualify new suppliers and raise quality issues with the supply chain and issue SCARs.
- Identifying back up and second source suppliers.
- Ensuring the outgoing POs are reconciled correctly in Peachtree by the receiving clerks once parts are received.
Basic Qualifications:
- Proven experience as production planner
- Excellent knowledge of production planning and manufacturing science principles
- Familiarity with production and inventory, WIP, WO, BOM management systems
- Excellent communication abilities
- High school diploma; Further education or certification is preferred
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
What makes Laser Components Detector Group attractive?
- Free fruit in the breakroom
- Regular company events/Quarterly BBQ
- Free gym membership
- Covered parking
- Team builders
- Small family work environment
- Casual dress code
- Company paid vision and dental
We believe that building a diverse team at LCDG helps us amplify our individual talents. We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating and inclusive environment where good ideas are free to come from anyone. We are proud to celebrate diversity and all qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, national origin, or ant other status protected by law.
Laser Components Detector Group, Inc. has been researching, developing, and manufacturing semiconductor detectors in Phoenix since 2003. The Detector Group specializes in engineering custom developments of individual configurations, resulting in high-performance Silicon Photodiodes, InGaAs Avalanche Photodiodes (APD), pyroelectric detectors, and Lead Salt IR Detectors for use in the detection of the smallest amounts of light and radiation. We fabricate, assemble, and test most of these products in-house. Our product range extends from low-cost APDs for commercial applications to high-end components used in military applications. Our products are featured in cutting edge applications such as LiDAR for autonomous vehicles, drone technology, satellite missions to name just a few. The heart of our photon counting APD modules also originated at our facility. We also specialize in building complete receivers that are engineered to demonstrate high sensitivity, high wavelength range, and large frequency width.
LASER COMPONENTS Nordic - Your competent partner for optical and optoelectronic components in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland.
Welcome to LASER COMPONENTS Nordic AB, your expert for photonics components. Each product in our wide range of detectors, laser diodes, laser modules, optics, fiber optics, and more is worth every Crown (SEK). Our customized solutions cover all conceivable areas of application: from sensor technology to medical technology. You can reach us here:
Box 14001 / Skårs led 3
SE-400 20 Göteborg
Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)31 703 7173
Email: info(at)
