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Eaton’s IS AER MSD is currently seeking a Tactical Buyer. This role is based in Davenport, IA.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $67500.0 - $99000.0 a year.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you’ll do:

Summary:

The Tactical Buyer will be repsonsible to execute buying activities in support of engineering requirements for all items related to the development process. This position requires the buyer to work closely with engineering to understand product design and evaluate supplier capabilities in support of design requirements. Select sourcing in accordance with Strategic Supply Chain direction. Responsible for ensuring material delivery is in alignment with supporting program milestones and to communicate risk internally to the engineering team and program manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

+ Technical background to work with engineering at development stages of design.

+ Able to evaluate supplier capabilities to determine appropriate source selection for development requirements.

+ Effective communication of part delivery status including expediting activities for items needed for scheduled development testing.

+ Anticipate Supply Chain and Value Stream needs at the development stage and respond to concerns and conflicts before parts are released for production.

+ Responsible for engineering team purchasing card and reconciling transactions.

+ To work with the commodity team to ensure that supplier communication and related metrics support team goals.

+ Capable of working independently and reacting quickly to changing priorities.

+ Strong analytical skills for quoting and sourcing activities.

+ Coordinate sourcing decisions with tactical buyer on parts released to production.

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Qualifications:

Basic (Required) Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution with 1 year of supply chain experience in manufacturing OR

+ Associates degree from an accredited institution with 5 years of supply chain experience in manufacturing

+ No relocation is offered for this position. All candidates must currently reside within 50 miles of Orchard Park, NY to be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.

+ Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

+ “This position requires access to export-controlledinformation. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158.”

Preferred Qualifications

+ Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration or Engineering Degree

+ Working knowledge of MRP, purchasing, work in process, and inventory modules of Oracle ERP system

+ Professional certification (APICS, CPM)

+ Lean Manufacturing Experience

Skills:

Position Criteria

+ Experience in materials management or purchasing

+ Solid understanding of materials management methodologies

+ Experience utilizing lean manufacturing tools to drive continuous improvement initiatives.

+ Knowledge of products and customer base

+ Working knowledge of Systems and Procedures as it pertains to the materials management function and Purchasing Standard work.

+ Personal computing, organizational, analytical, communication, negotiating, leadership, inventory management tools including kanban, LTA’s, AMPA’s, Performance Management, SIOP process

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Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.

You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here (https://www.youreatonbenefits.com/candidates) for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.