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Purchasing Coordinator
Chicago, Illinois
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Purchasing Coordinator needed Manufacturing facility in Bedford Park, Illinois
This role is 100% on-site
Salary: $50K – $55K
Job Summary: The Materials Coordinator is responsible for the purchasing of items for manufacturing within the guidelines of customer and company standards, practices, and procedures. A successful candidate demonstrates the ability to work in a fast-past environment, be extremely organized, and pay a high level of attention to detail.
Responsibilities:
- Order steel per MRP-verify correct pricing for PO’s. Visual Manufacturing.
- Interface with Manufacturing personnel, Purchasing personnel, etc., on material status and production planning issues.
- Monitor backorders and take appropriate actions to minimize recurrence.
- Maintain supplier relationships and smooth flow of materials by ensuring quantity related invoice errors are resolved timely.
- Meet with General Manager, Materials Manager and Plant Manager monthly to review schedule and shipments/forecast.
- Cross-train with others in the department and provide coverage as required.
- Scheduling steel trucks for the receiving department.
- Confirm orders to Production Scheduler/Production Supervisors
- Process turndown requests
- Provide a timely request of steel and material packaging, including ordering, expediting, and de-expediting according to current MRP requirements.
- Pro-actively track orders and contact vendors to ensure on-time delivery.
- Establish and maintain vendor relationships.
- Maintain Caterpillar steel group detail communicate any concerns with Sales/Customer Service.
- Produce and distribute reports by tracking steel usage reports and sending a copy to Caterpillar following shipment of orders.
- Contact suppliers to acknowledge, adjust, expedite, or perform follow-ups on steel orders to determine the status of an order.
- Communicate to Production Scheduler of changes shipping dates.
- Contact warehouse suppliers/service centers for steel availability and cost as necessary to expedite production.
- Issue material on completed jobs and complete inventory adjustments of raw material.
- Receiving of Material, OVS, MRO daily.
- Maintain heat codes and release work orders to quality for manufacturing.
- Create a warehouse sheet and total cost and/or specifications deviation form for substitution as needed.
- Assist with special projects
- Maintain a clean and orderly work area
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED with a minimum of 2 years of experience in purchasing preferred; ideally in manufacturing
- Proficient with Microsoft products (Excel, Teams, Outlook)
- Experienced with ERP systems, with Visual 9.0 preferred
- Flexible and adapts to change easily
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and teamwork
- Proactive responsiveness to customer inquiries
- High level of organization, detail, and ability to juggle multiple items
- Ability to accomplish projects with minimal oversight
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