Plant Buyer

Your challenge- Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, the Plant Buyer’s mission is to support the maintenance department through the ordering of parts for the machines on the production floor.- Individual responsibilities**Accountable**
- Purchase goods and services required for plant/maintenance operations.**Responsible**
- Purchase maintenance parts and production supplies such as doctor blades, straps, die blankets
- Work with the Receiver and receive parts physically.
- Work with maintenance employees/maintenance planner to distribute parts to the kitting area or spare parts in the storage.
- Inform Maintenance supervisor, maintenance planner, and reliability leads that parts have arrived for specific work orders during the yellow filter and green filter meetings.
- Use the Hippo CMMS system to put notes on work orders such as part ETA or the part locations/kitting.
- Send machine parts out for refurbishment or rebuild/repair with the maintenance planner such as anilox rolls, rubber feed rolls, glue/metering rolls.
- Work with a maintenance planner to purchase/issue PO# for the parts repaired by the machine shop.
- Manage and organize the part storage by putting spare parts back to the bins when the parts are received.
- Work with a maintenance planner closely to establish the kitting parts for repetitive work orders such as replacing rubber feed rolls, anilox rolls, splicers overhaul.
- Record parts in the CMMS and transfer to the SAP system.
- Experiences and strengths- 2 to 5 years of experience in similar role in a manufacturing environment- High school diploma or equivalent- Strong planning, organization and inventory management skills.- Knowledge of industrial environments (an asset).- High level of autonomy.- Ability to act and react quickly while working on a number of files at the same time.- Ability to plan, organize and prioritize activities effectively.- Experience working with SAP. HIPPO/CMMS, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook).**Core competencies defined for this job**
- Planning and organizing- Values and ethics- Partnership- Accountability- Autonomy- Action-based focus**#respectyourtruenature #revealyourpotential #LifeAtCascades**

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