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Company Background:

Since our founding in 1883, UltraSource has served the processing and packaging equipment needs of thousands of companies worldwide in the meat and poultry, seafood, produce and dairy industries. Our comprehensive offering includes hundreds of products that enable us to custom tailor equipment solutions that meet the production line objectives, labor goals, budget constraints and brand image of our customers.

UltraSource's quality program ensures our products are engineered and produced to meet or exceed our customers' requirements. Reliability, maintainability, and safety are at the forefront of our engineering strategy and support to our dedication to quality.

Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Controls the levels of inventory on materials, parts or products by ensuring planning parameters are accurately maintained in the ERP system.
• Work with production, engineering, and sales to determine product needs and planning/schedules appropriately.
• Conduct and execute procurement plans to ensure all inventory is delivered to specification at the negotiated prices.
• Identify and drive process improvements to negotiate price, quality and quantity of materials and components with vendors.
• Collects the product requirements form sales, engineering, and production. Works with vendors to obtain drawings, technical datasheets, prices, order minimums and multiples
• Maintain information in the ERP system
• Reviews bid proposals and negotiates with multiple vendors within budgetary limitations and scope of authority.
• Build relationships with current and new suppliers, as well as sourcing backup suppliers for critical items to mitigate production issues and bottlenecks.
• Identify and drive process improvements to reduce lead time, inventory levels and improve supplier delivery and quality.
• Process, approve and deliver purchase orders to meet targeted inventory goals
• Monitors past due orders and expedites delivery of goods form vendors required.
• Experience with domestic and international purchase orders.
• Works with engineering, production and finance to review and manage purchase price variance (PPV) and manufacturing variance.
• Helps resolve receiving issues and approves invoice exceptions( quantity or price differences from the PO) for payment by accounting.

Education and/or Experience:

• Highschool/ GED Required. associates or bachelor's preferred; 3-10 yrs related experience
• ERP/ MRP and inventory management experience are preferred but not required.
• Experience with ERP software, Dynamics 365 preferred.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft Office
• Strong negotiation skills are a must; ability to work and communicate effectively with sales team; manufacturing, leaders as well as vendors.
• Highly analytical, motivated and accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit, talk, listen and frequently use hands to finger, handle, type, and feel. Required to occasionally stand and travel both domestically and abroad to visit work and customer sites. Be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Work Environment:

In addition to a typical office environment, the employee must also frequent the company's warehouse and customer locations with moderate exposure to heat, cold, humidity, dust, noise, and working equipment (electrical and mechanical hazards).