**Job Summary:**
**The Buyer I/II is responsible for managing all aspects of purchasing components from suppliers in order to assure timely delivery of parts to support production needs. In addition, the Buyer I/II is the communication and logistics link between Value Streams, Supervisors, Marketing, Master Scheduler, and Purchasing.**
**Please note that is position is a TEMP - HIRE opportunity.**
**About Crane:**
**Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You'll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Every 1.2 seconds, product built at our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Burbank facility is stopping aircraft - delivering passengers and military personnel safely to their destination. Home to our Landing & Cabin Systems team, Crane A&E's brake control systems and premium cabin actuation solutions are flying on tens of thousands of aircraft throughout the world. You'll join a business with a long track record of engineering excellence, set in the wonderful town of Burbank filled with great community atmosphere, schools, weather and no shortage of entertainment.**
**Start the next chapter of your career with Crane Aerospace & Electronics!**
**Essential Functions:**
**Perform material requirements planning through high interaction/coordination with** **manufacturing personnel and external suppliers to support the Value Stream**
**Communicate priorities and schedule changes to Outside Processing Suppliers on a daily basis to support changes in production requirements** **supplier problems with Leadership, Procurement Specialists and other Buyers**
**Establish and maintain positive working relationships with suppliers; Communicate common**
**Develop, own, and drive an inventory action plan to maintain proper inventory levels and** **achieve turns goals of key production components**
**Train the value stream support personnel and facilitate the upgrade to a pull-based** **replenishment system (Kanban) to improve inventory turns and eliminate part shortages**
**Monitor supplier orders to assure they are shipped on a timely basis to support the Value** **Stream**
**Improve supplier fill rates, quality, and lead times to fit product mix and needs.**
**Obtain quotes from suppliers for production material and Outside Processing operations**
**Negotiate blanket purchase orders and pursue cost reduction initiatives that eliminate** **adverse Purchase Price Index (PPI)**
**Interact with sourcing teams to ensure best practices and greatest leverage in procurement,** **low-cost region sourcing, supplier assessment & management**
**Publish daily shortage report to communicate current delivery information from suppliers**
**Resolve invoice discrepancies on a timely basis**
**Manage supplier quality through the Non-Conforming Report (NCR) Process; Minimize** **production impact by ensuring discrepant materials are addressed with Manufacturing** **Engineering, Procurement Quality, Supervisors and Suppliers**
**Work closely with suppliers and Procurement Quality Engineers to resolve Corrective Action**
**Requests (CARs) generated from NCRs**
**Obtain Return Merchandise Authorizaton (RMA), and process return transactions in Oracle**
**(ERP System); Follow Debit Memo process for supplier rework of discrepant materials**
**Any other task assigned by supervisor or management**
**Eligibility Requirement:** **This position may require access to Controlled Data or Information. Where the position requires such access only US Persons will be considered. As a US Department of Defense contractor, we are bound by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).**
**Minimum Qualifications:**
**Experience** **:** **2-5** **years of experience buying in a similar industry or** **demonstrated equivalent knowledge of supply chain function through work experience or school**
**Knowledge** **:** **In-depth knowledge of the manufacturing process used in the operating unit of assignment; Working knowledge of buying, and ordering procedures; Working knowledge of production planning, material requirements planning and Kanban systems; Working knowledge of computer systems that support production, e.g., inventory control, purchasing, production scheduling and** **Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)**
**Skills/Abilities** **:** **Requires well-developed skill in communicating with others. Proficiency in Excel and Word and ability to work with Access databases;** **Ability to** **coordinate materials and production schedules with multiple teams, solve urgent problems associated with the manufacture of products and document and communicate production outcomes and trends; Ability to perform math and logic computations requiring sequencing of times, critical incidents, and numeric i