Your Job
Molex is seeking a Production Planner / Buyer for our South Grafton, MA facility. This role is responsible for production planning, purchasing, inventory management, and supplier coordination to ensure materials are available to support customer demand while optimizing inventory, cost, and manufacturing efficiency.
The ideal candidate has strong SAP experience, understands end-to-end supply chain processes, and is capable of analyzing annual material costs, supplier pricing, and purchasing strategies to support business objectives.
Our Team
At Molex South Grafton, you’ll join a collaborative team dedicated to safety, innovation, and continuous improvement. We work closely across Operations, Purchasing, Production, Customer Service, Engineering, and Sales to ensure customer commitments are met while driving operational excellence.
What You Will Do
- Develop and maintain production schedules to support customer demand while maximizing manufacturing efficiency.
- Plan and purchase raw materials and components to support production requirements.
- Utilize SAP (MRP/ERP) to manage demand planning, purchase requisitions, purchase orders, inventory, and production scheduling.
- Review MRP recommendations and execute purchasing and production order actions.
- Collaborate with suppliers to manage lead times, delivery schedules, and expedite critical materials when necessary.
- Analyze inventory levels and implement strategies to minimize shortages and excess inventory.
- Work closely with Production, Customer Service, Engineering, and Sales to balance customer demand with manufacturing capacity.
- Monitor supplier performance and resolve supply issues affecting production.
- Understand material cost structures and perform annual cost analysis to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Support supplier negotiations by understanding cost breakdowns, market trends, and annual pricing changes.
- Review supplier quotations and participate in annual cost reduction initiatives.
- Publish and monitor Planning and Purchasing KPIs.
- Continuously improve planning and purchasing processes using Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methodologies.
- Support Molex Total Quality Management (TQM), ISO, Environmental, and EH&S systems by following established policies and procedures.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in production planning, purchasing, materials management, or supply chain within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience using SAP ERP/MRP.
- Experience with purchasing processes, supplier management, and production planning.
- Experience managing purchase orders, inventory planning, and material availability.
- Experience analyzing data and making decisions using SAP reports and Excel.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, Finance, or a related field.
- APICS/ASCM CPIM or CSCP certification.
- Experience with supplier negotiations and annual cost reduction initiatives.
- Understanding of supplier cost breakdowns, material pricing, and annual cost reviews.
- Experience in a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment.
For this role, we anticipate paying $65,000 – $90,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
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Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength – focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes – medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).
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