Plant Buyer

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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.

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Why work for Dawn Foods?

PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.

Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Competitive Pay
• Professional training
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service

Job Purpose And Overview

This is a contract opportunity for 6-7 months reporting to the Materials Manager and will be onsite at the Burlington Manufacturing plant. The plant buyer is responsible for ensuring availability of ingredients and packaging to meet production schedules and customer fill rates. This role will work closely with scheduling, warehousing, inventory control and production.

Schedule: Monday- Friday, 8-hour workday with 1/2 hour unpaid lunch, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

What You’ll Do as a Plant Buyer at Dawn Foods?

• Creates Purchase Order for the plant's raw materials and packaging, purchases utilizing existing and approved vendors and Dawn Buying Programs to ensure the timely receipt of quality goods and materials
• Maintains targeted inventory levels in adherence with best-in-class practices at Dawn.
• Works to resolve availability issues with a sense of urgency and escalates to the manager when or if there are production scheduling implications or customer shortages.
• Continuously looks for improvement opportunities within one’s responsibilities and those that impact the supply chain results.
• If necessary, will perform required expediting functions to meet customer and production scheduling requirements but main objective will be to avoid added costs.
• Works closely with scheduling and inventory control to make sure ingredient inventory is available to meet the production plan and line stoppages are avoided.
• Interfaces with Accounts Payable and Purchasing Departments to resolve P.O. pricing &/or quantity issues and encourage prompt vendor payments.
• Demonstrates the “Dawn Values” of Team Dawn and supports the Dawn Circle of Excellence.

What Does It Take to be Plant Buyer at Dawn Foods?

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management field or related degree.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of work experience in purchasing or scheduling in a manufacturing environment.
• Must have operational knowledge of SAP, Excel, Word, & Microsoft Outlook and/or ability to learn these skills.
• APICS certification a plus.
• The ability to multi-task in high pressure situations and to always maintain a positive & caring attitude.
• Requires strong organizational skills, is dedicated and a true team player.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Required to use motor coordination with arm, hand, finger, and leg dexterity.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
• Normal setting for this job is plant/office.

Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.”

Dawn is An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Dawn Foods welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process

Compensation

$71,550.00-107,330.00

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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.