Julia L. Nice

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Imperial PA ****6

Tel: 304-***-****

Mobile: 412-***-****

Work: 412-***-****

Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and team player

• Excellent time management and organizational skills

• Proficient in SAP, Business Warehouse (BW), Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Microsoft InfoPath, Ariba, eS2, Ecovadis, Elemica

• Creative problem solver, effectively and sufficiently complete responsibilities

• Flexible and eager for new opportunities and challenges

Work History

Covestro-formerly Bayer Material Science

Procurement Buyer 01/01/2010-present

Local purchases of Raw Materials, Tolling and Pgh Services up to

an approval limit of 150.000 EUR per purchase order primarily for

all Covestro Texas locations & PUR tolling business, providing primary back-up support to all Covestro sites.

Ensures the uninterrupted supply of materials for the production

unit through close communication with the suppliers and the

understanding of the requirements of the business.

Creation of purchase orders based on received purchase

requisitions and information from the requisitioning community.

Check and document order confirmations, clarify deviations with suppliers and internal customers or buyers.

Front-office support for common day-to-day operational tasks in

communication with internal customers & suppliers.

Ensure supplier and purchase order data maintenance (payment

terms, material numbers, etc.)

Responsible for the implementation of and adherence to quality,

environmental, safety & corporate compliance measures to meet HSEQ and

other regulatory standards as well as internal process standards

Lead sourcing projects for Raw Materials.

Train new employees to Local Procurement – Raw Materials in SAP

P1P, PMD, and general procurement practices.

Act as primary expert in raw material automation, creating PMD

contracts, inforecords, etc. and providing expertise to other sites.

Resolve invoice discrepancies and approve invoice submissions

Bayer Material Science, LLC

Payroll Associate 04-01-2009 – 01/01/2010

Responsibilities/Skills: Prepare processing of the hourly time cards for South Charleston and New Martinsville. This includes auditing timecards, reviewing pay situations, preparing input for weekly processing, administering negotiated pay practices and resolving disagreements when the issues involve pay.

Audit hourly time cards on a daily basis for New Martinsville Union and bi-weekly basis for New Martinsville lab techs and South Charleston hourly to ensure proper pay entitlement and conformance to negotiated labor agreement and to maintain consistency of pay practices.

Responsible for calculating disability claims for both Occupational and Non-Occupational sick benefits and maintaining these files.

Distribute the weekly hourly payroll checks to supervision. Update and maintain the check distribution list.

Responsible for producing a series of overtime lists for the Maintenance and Production departments. Lists must be separated by primary skill classifications. All overtime refused must additionally be charged and any discrepancies in overtime scheduling which violate the negotiated contract agreement are communicated to the Maintenance Overtime Clerks and Supervision.

Provide information to customers, such as employees, Human Resources, management, etc., regarding absence and overtime reporting, maintenance overtime job analyses, etc.

Review history of pay situations and prepare reports for grievances and arbitration cases. Sometimes attendance is required at these hearings.

Assist the Supervisor with cost studies and wage analyses prepared for Plant Management, negotiations support, Labor Relations and Human Resources on an on-going basis. Considerable time is spent during labor contract negotiation periods preparing cost proposals and wage projections for bargaining purposes.

Maintain and update the EMS overtime list for Fire and Gas Brigade and CAER coverage.

Reimbursement processing of monthly Union dues

The incumbent is responsible for headcount reporting for the Human Resources Department during Plant emergencies and is coverage during Plant emergencies to gather the headcount reporting for the entire plant. This information is reported to the Emergency Team Headquarters to ensure the safety

Bayer Material Science, LLC

Procurement Buyer 01-04-1999 – 03-31-2009

Responsibilities/Skills: Buyer will procure all assigned technical goods and services, including capital, maintenance, general expensed and storeroom stock items to maintain continuous plant operations meeting or exceeding internal customer requirements using good economic judgments and business practices that contribute the most to the operation and profitability of the plant and the corporation.

Assist and support the raw material buyer to manage, negotiate and execute the procurement of chemical raw materials for all Bayer Material Science needs within the Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Region.

Coordinates raw materials purchased consistent with department and corporate objectives of quality, price, delivery and service.

Procure technical hard goods, including Maintenance Requirement Orders, Process Control Systems, Storeroom spare parts, non-stock commodities, bottled gases and services that result in the best quality, price and delivery.

Develop and implement short and long term procurement initiatives in concert with Bayer Material Science Corporate Procurement and internal customers.

Implements and manage the Wilson-TMS outsourcing initiative for the New Martinsville Storeroom. Evaluates and monitors the status based on agreed upon key performance indicators.

Implement and manage the use of the Purchasing Card for Maintenance Work Orders or low dollar spend for the entire New Martinsville site.

Provide coverage for Raw Material Buyer(s) for the South Charleston and New Martinsville sites.

Lead and manage internal audits with Technical Goods Suppliers.

Monitors and evaluates suppliers for performance measures and opportunities for savings to Bayer.

Interacts with Safety Department personnel to ensure the proper safety equipment is purchased and upgrading and / or increasing the reliability of plant safety equipment.

Interacts with site Reliability Group to ensure the proper manufactured items are purchased in accordance with safety regulations and global initiatives.

Participates in shutdown meetings to ensure material is delivered in a timely manner from supplier to meet internal customer requirements.

Implements and utilizes appropriate computer systems for the processing of routine commodity requirements resulting in department productivity gains.

Procures capital requirements for the South Charleston facility in assigned commodity areas as needed.

Implement and participate in applicable Core Process Standards.

Utilize multiple computer programs to analyze proposals and track savings for Purchasing Department

Mobay/Miles/Bayer Corporation

Purchasing assistant 06/04/1990-06/04/1993

Prepare daily purchase orders for white collar, blue collar and raw materials for New Martinsville Plant site.

Daily interaction with plant personnel to ensure timely demand of materials

Bayer Material Science, LLC

Triax Operator Warehouse 06/04/1993-01/04/1999

Responsibilities/Skills: Manage and retrieve all daily outbound production to various customers.

Cover vacancies in positions of Inventory Control, Bulk Shipping, Package Shipping, and Daily Rail Switch/track of all incoming and outgoing raw materials and finished goods..

Manage and maintain empty production containers, drums, totes, cans. Provide replenishment on a weekly basis from the supplier.

D.O.T. awareness required for all labeling of chemical products shipping to customers.

D.O.T. awareness required for labeling in-house production.

Schedule overtime and minor duties with Local Union.

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