SUMMARY:

The Supply Chain/Scheduling Rotational Program is an onsite entry level position designed to provide a unique experience across various business functions to develop future leaders of the organization. Team members will rotate through various functions within supply chain and production scheduling to fast track their professional development and create opportunities for long-term career advancement. Team Members will be supported by a single point of contact manager to lead and mentor you through this rotational role as you expand your knowledge on the company’s supply chain. Team members will be responsible in learning and managing procurement, vendor relations, supply strategy and production scheduling in their rotational role.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Procurement:

• Manage the plant’s raw material goods inventory ensuring transparency of spending.
• Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies.
• Balancing of order and deliveries of open purchase orders.
• Work with Accounts Payable to balance payments of purchases order.
• Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure.
• Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals.
• Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency.
• Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes.
• Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
• Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques.
• Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers.
• Determine quantity and timing of deliveries.
• Assisted raw material purchasing.

Scheduling:

• Works with supply chain manager and analyses demand forecast, current sales orders, and past orders to determine future customer requirements and ensure all materials, labor are in-house to meet the upcoming manufacturing schedule.
• Works supply chain to ensure proper inventory of all production materials onsite when required.
• Creates and publishes a weekly/daily production schedule for multiple manufacturing cells ensuring all materials and tooling are available to execute production plans per the schedule.
• Works with customer service and transportation to ensure order fulfillment and tracks and trends customer shortages and adjust schedules to meet customer orders.
• Validates schedule adherence is followed by manufacturing team.
• Creates and analyzes reports as requested.
• Assists in daily physical inventory counts and inquires.
• Identifies system and process problems related to scheduling and recommends corrective actions.
• Other duties as assigned by management team.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, industrial engineering or related field.
• Strong Excel skills and familiar with balancing pivot tables, xlookup and complicated Excel functions.
• Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement.
• Strong project management and leadership skills.
• Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data.
• Supply Chain or general business internship or related experience.
• Prior experience participating in a team environment.
• High level of initiative for excellence, results, and process improvement.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work with individuals at all levels within the business.
• Strong business communication and job task organization/prioritization.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Growth oriented mindset
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and cross functional collaboration skills
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills
• Personal strengths in activator, analytical, discipline and ideation
• Excel macros Skills are a plus

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Schenectady, NY 12302: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person