Purchasing & Planning Graduate
Are you looking for the next step in your career? Could you be the right person to fill one of our positions?
We are now recruiting for a Purchasing & Planning Graduate to join us at VACGEN.
Job Purpose
The main purpose of this role will be to provide a forward-looking planning function for all products that:
* Maintaining and supporting forward-looking planning function for all products.
* Ensuring all processes and procedures are adhered to.
Key Accountabilities:
The main requirements and employee accountabilities are:
* Be involved in order inputting, liaising with Sales on delivery dates, agree delivery dates prior to Order Input.
* Interact between Sales, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain functions.
* Maximise use of the order management system and ensure visibility of all orders.
* Produce and publish metrics as required.
* Maximise our Shipping Performance and achieves our On-time Delivery Goals.
* Take ownership of, and plan all products through Manufacturing Cells.
* Identify critical items and issues, and resolve them.
* Investigate available capacity vs. likely load.
* Support function for team members in production and purchasing during absences.
Essential Skills & Experience:
In order to be successful in this role you must have / be:
* Excellent organisational and communication skills.
* Ability to make decisions within guidelines and take responsibility for these is essential.
* Ability to meet time frames and work under pressure is important.
* Good analytical and numeracy skills.
* Strong systems and Excel knowledge.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
The skills and experience we would like the employee in this role to have are:
* ERP planning experience.
* Production planning system experience.
* Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX.
* Previous exposure working in a manufacturing and assembly organisation.
* Engineering competence in relation to machining and assembly and a suitable level of product and organisational familiarisation is a distinct advantage.
Desirable Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
Business Administration qualification
Personal Qualities/Attributes:
We require the following personal qualities/attributes:
* Ability to meet deadlines.
* Decisive.
* Problem solving skills.
* Ability to build good relationships.
If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role click on “APPLY” today, forwarding an up to date copy of your CV for consideration in the first instance.
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