Materials Spec II

About the role

This onsite position is located in Deerfield Beach, FL. The role involves planning, forecasting, and purchasing service parts and repair items, managing inventories, expediting orders, developing vendor sources, negotiating, distributing parts, providing after‑hours support, maintaining databases and vendor libraries, communicating with international vendors, and participating in product lifecycle activities.

Responsibilities

• Plan, forecast, and purchase Service parts and repair based on certain departmental procedures using various tools and methods.
• Manage service parts inventories to set budgets.
• Expedite vendor purchase orders to solve stock out situations.
• Solve stock out situations using various expediting methods.
• Develop primary and secondary sources.
• Complete initial negotiations with new vendors, and with existing vendors.
• Distribute spare parts inventories to various locations using department procedures and guidelines.
• Provide On-Call support after hours as required.
• Maintain a library of vendor parts lists.
• Communicate with Japan and other vendors to obtain needed information.
• Provide part numbers to Customers as required.
• Maintain the computerized database of Service parts.
• Analyze on hand inventories to identify obsolete and potential scrap.
• Dispose defective parts.
• Develop end of life programs to ensure spare parts are available after product discontinuation.
• Participate in the New Product Introduction process.
• Participate in the analysis to scrap old and obsolete parts.
• Personal contacts are routine with several sections, departments or divisions or require close collaboration with other members of the same section, department or division.
• Supervisor managed; activities are governed by departmental and/or company rules and procedures, schedules are monitored.
• Position duties involve making frequent decisions and frequent recommendations.
• Errors may result in considerable financial loss and/or embarrassment to the company and may adversely affect some aspect of our business.

Requirements

• 5 years experience in service parts, logistics or inventory control environment.
• Experience in developing and implementing process improvements.
• Must maintain active motor vehicle driver's license from the state where the employee resides.

Qualifications

• Understanding of planning, forecasting, purchasing and expediting functions.
• Expertise with computerized inventory systems.

Pay

Pay Information: Min $56,600 to Max $101,900 annual equivalency.