Plant Parts Room Associate

About the role

At Niagara, we're seeking Team Members passionate about contributing to our mission of providing high-quality, affordable bottled water. Join us in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment where you can make a meaningful impact.

Responsibilities

• Purchasing: Restocks consumables, critical spare parts, and parts inventory. Provides PO delivery status updates for outstanding orders from respective vendors. Corrects and manages AP MRO Outstanding Issues.
• Inventory Management: Manages physical spare parts inventory, ensuring they are placed in appropriate storage locations. Maintains and receives all spare parts inventory in both Oracle EBS & Power Pick Global systems. Performs weekly/quarterly MRO Cycle counts into Oracle/PPG systems, and researches and reconciles discrepancies. Organizes parts room area per 5S Process (Sustain, Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize).
• Track, maintain and file warranty claims with respective vendors. Identifies parts in E-CAT system.
• Maintenance Planning: Generates and completes PM Work Order Scripts, manages work order backlog. Facilitates maintenance planning meetings. Assists technicians during downtime events. Provides database support on-site acting as a subject matter expert. Assists with annual machine rebuilds. Creates PM Plan for line down time, optimizing Mechanic labor availability. Ensures completion of PMs at scheduled intervals (e.g., weekly, monthly, etc.). Coordinates with Maintenance and Production Teams to effectively execute Repair work orders. Evaluates and assesses PM effectiveness to ensure time planned and PM tasks are appropriate. Confirms that material and labor costs are properly captured on work orders.
• Purchases items/parts availability management, able to source to various suppliers/vendors. Attends monthly parts room calls. Works order tracking and completion in both preventative maintenance and repairs. Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications: 2 years of experience in a field or similar manufacturing environment. 2 years of experience in the position or similar field (customer service/inventory experience is a plus). 0 years of experience managing people/projects. Experience may include a combination of work experience and education.
• Proficient in Inventory Management Systems such as Oracle, SAP, or Similar. Proficient in CMMS/ERP systems/MS Office/Outlook/Excel/Word.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: High School Diploma. Associate Degree or equivalent certification preferred.
• Preferred Qualifications: 4 years of experience in a field or similar manufacturing environment. 4 years of experience working in the position or similar field. 2 years of experience managing people/projects. Experience may include a combination of work experience and education. Experience with Oracle EBS Purchasing and Inventory.

Skills

• Lead Like an Owner: Makes safety the number one priority, keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately, effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals, shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly, responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers.
• InnovACT: Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products, demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances, increases performance through greater efficiency.
• Find a Way: Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts, understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions, seeks solutions rather than placing blame.
• Empowered to be Great: Consistently looks for ways to improve oneself through growth and development opportunities, communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across, communicates effectively to manage expectations.

Benefits

Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive benefits package for regular full-time team members, and a limited benefits package for part-time, intern, and seasonal team members. Benefits include paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, health savings account with company match, flexible spending accounts, expanded mental wellbeing benefits, tuition reimbursement, college savings plan, and more!