**Job Summary:** **The Buyer I 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 is the communication and logistics link between Value Streams, Supervisors, Marketing, Master Scheduler, and Purchasing.** **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** **Establish and maintain positive working relationships with suppliers; Communicate common supplier problems with Leadership, Procurement Specialists and other Buyers** **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 Authorization (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** **Minimum Qualifications:** **Experience: 0-2 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** **scheduling and Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)of computer systems that support production, e.g., inventory control, purchasing, production, production planning, material requirements planning and Kanban systems; Working knowledge** **​** **Skills/Abilities: 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 information; Ability to negotiate changes with vendors and** **manufacturing teams** **Education/Certification: BA or BS degree in Supply Chain, Business, or Materials-related field** **desired** **Preferred Qualifications:** **Experience working in a regulated manufacturing environment** **Eligibility Requirement:** + This position requires access to controlled data or information and therefore only US persons will be consider