Victaulic Company
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McMinnville, Tennessee
H1B sponsorship availableDetected 29 days ago
Operations ManagementLogisticsERPRecruitingHRCustomer SupportFEACommunicationProblem SolvingMicrosoft OfficeLean Manufacturing
About the role
- You'll sit at the intersection of production, suppliers, and the shop floor - balancing capacity, inventory health, and supplier performance to keep manufacturing running smoothly and customers satisfied.
Responsibilities
- Efficiently planning, purchasing, and managing of the assigned supply points and/or product lines and their respective suppliers to deliver finished products to the customer and maintaining a high level of customer service.
- Develops and manages the various databases to ensure systems work smoothly.
- Learns lean manufacturing principles, develops plans for streamlining processes and procedures and attends FEM cost reduction and inventory reduction meetings.
- This role owns the day-to-day planning, purchasing, and material flow for assigned product lines, ensuring the right material is in the right place at the right time to meet customer commitments.
- The role blends tactical execution with continuous improvement, using data, ERP systems, and Lean principles to drive delivery, reduce waste, and strengthen supplier partnerships.
Requirements
- Minimum Associates Degree (2yr)
- Minimum 1-2 years of experience in Purchasing, Material Control or Manufacturing planning
- Experience in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Suite is required.
- Must be goal and detail oriented, reliable, self-motivated, and able to multi-task effectively.
- Good organizational and analytical problem-solving skills required.
- Knowledge of Country of Origin and/or domestic or AIS requirements
- All communications, inquiries and candidate submissions must be routed through Victaulic's Human Resources/Talent Acquisition team.
- Strong analytical problem solving ability
- Customer Service driven
- Good oral and written communications skills
- Thorough understanding of steel and rubber specifications and tolerances.
Nice to have
- AS400/ Profound preferred
Benefits
- Releases purchase orders for production material, floor stock items and all purchases to support the manufacturing needs for assigned product line.
- Works with manager and operations management team to establish safety stock positions, best stocking locations and to re-size Kanbans and rack locations and sizing.
Equal opportunity
- Victaulic is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EOE/M/F/Vets/Disabled) employer and welcomes all qualified applicants.
- Applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, gender, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic data, or other legally protected status
- Victaulic Staffing Partner Communication Policy
- All staffing agencies are strictly forbidden from directly contacting any Victaulic employees, except those within the Human Resources/Talent Acquisition team.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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