Senior Engineer MFG Purchasing

• Material Procurement and Planning for Machining, Casting and Forging parts
• Tracking entire Procurement Activities from MRP run to GIN.
• Responsible to develop responsive & capable supplier base by building strong alignment with Suppliers.
• Negotiation and cost reduction by value engineering methods
• Making PO and follow up with supplier to get material in time.
• Work continuously with all stake holders like suppliers, engineering, quality, etc. to generate good pipe line of VAVE ideas
• Co-ordination with Assembly Department for resolving the day to day issues.
• Co-ordination with PPC and Design for better product procurement.
• Expected to have experience in commodities like casting , machining & plastic moulded parts
• Maintain vendor delivery performance data. Be proactive in addressing performance issues
• Supplier Capacity Planning wrt material requirement and timely escalations in case of gaps.

Functional

Core:

• Awareness of manufacturing processes for Machining ,Casting Process ,Heat Treatment, and Fabrication .Can be from a manufacturing background with hands on experience in machining and fabrication.
• Engineering terminologies & process knowledge
• Good Negotiations and Analytical skills.
• Understanding of Financial aspects/perspective to be able to discuss business with suppliers at macro level.
• Awareness of applicability of various taxations while buying from within and outside India.
• Techno commercial Knowledge of purchasing of items.
• Ability to network and have good interpersonal skills within the group company people and externally with suppliers.
• Good grasping of business model and translation into the requirements in terms of supply base.
• Operating knowledge of SAP related to purchasing.
• Operating knowledge of MS Office etc
• Purchase Planning
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Inventory Management
• Vendor Management

Internal process

• Oversee the quality requirements
• Attend the GEMBA meetings .
• Take the action and generate the reports on monthly basis as per business rule .

People development

• Transferring his Casting , Forging and Machining process knowledge to his team and develop them in respective area .

• On time delivery of Material
• Quality – OLR reduction by implementing CAPA
• Cost savings
• Lead time reduction
• Inventory in terms of Day’s in hand

• Support to VD team for alternate Vendor development.

Internal Interfaces

External Interfaces

• PPC
• Assembly
• Store
• Design
• QA

• Vendor

Knowledge of Purchase Function and Planning

Expert

Advanced

Builder WL1

Practitioner

Expert

Builder WL1

Practitioner

Knowledge of Vendor Management

Intermediate

Knowledge of Casting and Forging components procurement

Intermediate

Knowledge of MS Office / Excel

• Graduate

• 8 to 10 years

• 8 years