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Oil City, Pa

Develop and execute procurement strategies for purchasing of manufactured items and raw materials to match WIP needs. Plan and implement processes and procedures for company product purchases. Analyze vendor quotes and select products from suppliers based on price and quality. Negotiate shipping and receiving contracts ensuring on time delivery for critical inventory. Work with vendors and internal logistics to expedited delivery and resolving product issues. Handle procurement documentation in order to maintain detailed records.

Manage a departmental team of up to 31 associates across two shifts. Access and analyze Resource Dispatch Reports to allocate resources across three different sub-departments inside the SMT department. Examine weekly and monthly Load Profiles for staffing and shift constraints. Head a process improvement team that has improved first pass yield at the first inpection off-the-line production by 15%. Instituted a process to stream line component tracking and improved inventory control through recommended added equipment and software. Developed a life cycle report to support continual component inventory management. Work as part of a capacity planning scheduling team for long term outlook and labor reporting. Instrumental in implementation of current revision of MRPsystem.

First point of contact for appointed customer base. Handled account management and order entry. Worked with Sales Engineers in bookings and followed up on open orders. Attended bi-weekly MRP meetings with Scheduling and organized all weekly and monthly shipments and priorities including Kanban bin sizes and stocking programs. Processed re-quotes of existing assemblies and maintained poor margin reports. Improved new order booking queue time to order acknowledgment by assisting in Business Process entry improvements. Maintained component allocation andcapacity planning reports through the contract services group. Required a working knowledge of BOMs, prints, job operation routers and current work centers. Worked closely with the Quality department to institute new processes within the MRP system including stream lining work centers and technical program installations.

Maintained and operated pick-and-place equipment. Handled all off-line programming needs and responsible for all first time pre-production prototype runs. Ran reflow oven profiles and managed moisture sensitive devices reflow constraints. Attended new-product-review meetings and worked closely with in-house engineers towards continued process improvements. Managed a second shift team of six associates.