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Planner/Buyer

Company:
Spectrumcontrol
Location:
Marlborough, MA
Posted:
May 21, 2025
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Description:

At Spectrum Control, most departments operate on a 4-day, 10-hour work schedule in exchange for a 3-day weekend. We offer competitive wages and PTO, plus our benefits begin on day 1 of employment. Come join a workforce where we put you first!

JOB SUMMARY: The Buyer-Planner creates and maintains master schedule for products, subassemblies, and materials for a product line. They purchase raw material and MRO items from suppliers to support the schedule and achieve delivery, margin, quality, and inventory goals.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Coordinate product scheduling by creating and maintaining computerized master schedule for products, receiving input from staff indicating customer orders or forecasts for planned inventory items.

Plan ordering of raw materials by driving MRP requirements and execute purchase order release to supplier.

Ensure material availability by interacting with appropriate personnel and obtaining material by manufacturing start date through expediting and using shortage and open order reports.

Review production capacity requirements: monitor capacity reports to ensure sufficient capacity is available to handle the requirements of master schedule, update capacity changes as they occur, assist in planning capacity requirements to meet forecasted needs.

Review and process requests and documentation: schedule re-work of return orders, monitor delivery performance and interfaces with managers, deliver quote information, approve engineering change notice, and ship orders from stock as needed.

Coordinate communication activities with internal and external sources; reviews requests and situations with marketing, engineering, and manufacturing to ensure customer satisfaction.

Dispatch and process customer orders.

Negotiate pricing for blanket agreements and supplier support programs.

Maintain production and purchase order schedules and other data in information systems.

Monitor Corrective Action Responses and work with Quality Engineer to correct, maintain, and improve supplier quality issues.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Bachelor Degree

Experience Years: 3-5 years

Experience Type: Business Management/Planning OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.) and web proficiency

WORK ENVIRONMENT: Office and manufacturing floor

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Third-Party Recruiters

Please note, that per Spectrum Control Policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our values and expectations. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Spectrum Control will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity. If you or your agency are interested in becoming an approved vendor please contact .

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