Job Description
With general supervision, be responsible for the proper ordering, receiving, storage, inventory, and issuance of the facility's parts and supplies. Maintains the parts room, coordinates and controls the parts inventory program, and maintains accurate accounting records with the accounting department.
Duties: - Equipment parts purchasing program.
- Coordinate material requirements
- Locate and maintain sources for all equipment parts to include labeling of parts and bins.
- Prepare informal bids and evaluate bids and parts/equipment purchases.
- Process purchase requisitions and purchase orders in a timely manner
- Receive, account for, and inspect incoming parts and materials to ensure accurate quantity and quality.
- Store and issue a variety of equipment parts; process all requisitions and purchase and maintain accurate records within the computer.
- Do periodic inventory counts of all parts and materials within the parts room, to insure proper identification and quantity.
- Prepare reorder request based on inventory stock levels.
- Maintain the equipment parts room in a clean and orderly fashion and in accordance with standard accepted warehouse practices and procedures.
- Maintain records, memos, letters, and related documentation on all hazardous materials received into the facility.
- With management oversite print, distribute and close workorders for plant operations.
- Run reports through the computer-based system as requested from Mangement.
- Perform all other related duties assigned by Management.
Qualifications & Knowledge of: - Materials, supplies, and equipment used within the Culture facility.
- Fundamental principles and practices of corporate purchasing, material management and procedures for dairy related equipment.
- Principles of Maintenance parts management
- Specific terminology of the dairy parts industry
- History and format of equipment parts numbering
- Warehousing/store keeping methods and procedures.
- Preferred techniques for establishing sources of supply.
- Basic computer skills with an emphasis on Windows-based programs
- Principles and procedures of record keeping and inventory management.
- Complies with all regulations regarding the handling of Hazardous Materials. Obtains Material Safety Data Sheets as required from the vendors.
- Basic mathematical principles
- Must understand and follow all company safety rules and procedures.
Ability To: - Interact with Maintenance Staff at a reasonably technical level.
- Prepare equipment parts purchase specifications.
- Maintain required purchasing records.
- Use equipment parts manuals to identify correct parts to be ordered.
- Ensure that Upstate Niagara obtains the best value for parts, given the required material specifications, delivery urgency, and availability.
- Operate a system computer and be capable of maintaining related word processing and spreadsheet documents.
- Evaluate needs and estimate future supply requirements for all of the Facility's equipment parts needs.
- Select and recommend the purchase of routinely used materials and supplies.
- Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Type at a speed necessary for successful job performance
- Perform arithmetic calculations accurately and rapidly.
- Establish and maintain cooperative work relationships with those individuals in which you deal with on a daily basis.
Education and Experience: - High School Diploma or equivalent and 2+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred: - Associate Degree in Business, Manufacturing Technology or related field and 4+ years relevant work experience
Pay: $20/hr.
Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. is committed to equal employment opportunity for all, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.
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)
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