Buyer

About Us:
BW Converting Solutions is a strategic alliance of resources and services that bring together five Barry-Wehmiller companies — Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), Winkler + Dünnebier (W+D), STAX Technologies, Hudson-Sharp, Baldwin Technologies and Northern Engraving and Machine. These industry leaders offer trusted brands and innovative technologies in the design, manufacture, and service of high-performance converting and packaging machinery for the tissue, nonwovens, hygiene, bag-converting, mailing, and printing industries.

BW Forsyth Partners is the investment arm of multibillion-dollar global manufacturing and engineering consulting firm Barry-Wehmiller. Established in 2009, BW Forsyth Partners blends Barry-Wehmiller’s unparalleled legacy of value creation and people-centric culture development with keen investing experience to help companies realize their true potential. With a focus limited to areas known well, BW Forsyth Partners seeks to partner with leadership teams to acquire small
- to middle-market companies in the capital and component equipment, and professional services sectors. In each of our operating companies, BW Forsyth Partners deploys operational improvements and strategy development without compromising the autonomy, strategic vision and entrepreneurial spirit of their leadership teams.

**Job Description**:
The Buyer performs a variety of procurement and expediting duties related to material requirements planning, i.e., determines the resources necessary to ensure an uninterrupted supply to support production and sales with a focus on raw material and finished/fabricated parts required in accordance with manufacturing schedules.

**Responsibilities**:

- Analyze master schedule of long-range projections for completion and delivery targets of finished product; determine target date for receipt of materials required.
- Utilize system to project requirements planning; analyze stock, units on order, future requirements, and other production related data; make recommendations for project requirements.
- Print drawings and create job packets from ERP output for use by the floor as required. Ensure job packets are handled and released to the floor according to standard and policy.
- Maintain all planning material master data including lot sizes, safety stocks, material replenishment types, lead times in accordance with policy and procedure
- Analyzes and interprets pertinent inventory information and data, to determine current production status such as raw materials on hand, parts on order, parts in process, past usage, lead time required, etc., and anticipates and provides for future requirements and adjustments in scheduling as needed.
- Initiate shop orders to obtain material in accordance with schedule requirements; evaluate and determine alternate methods of meeting requirements with optimum cost and availability.
- Collaborate with other departments to determine disposition of materials and expedite flow of materials as needed; work with engineering in substitution of materials as required.
- Review overdue orders, determine cause of delay and initiate corrective action.
- Review MO closure reports to keep accurate records and identify discrepancies.

Experience Required
- Minimum 3 years manufacturing experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to proficiently write and speak English fluently.
- Technical proficiency with mechanical and electrical systems.
- Company:
Baldwin Technology