Procurement & Maintenance Planner

About the role

ERCO Worldwide has operated for over 100 years, focused largely on the production and supply of in-organic products along with technology for the production of chlorine dioxide. Today, ERCO’s major business areas include sodium chlorate, chlor-alkali products, sodium chlorite, and chlorine dioxide technology. The ERCO business serves a number of key customer segments including pulp and paper, food, energy, agriculture, water treatment, airport de-icing, fertilizers and specialty chemicals. Located at 5700 Hunt Road, Valdosta, GA.

Responsibilities

• Manages the procurement function at the plant; processes requisitions and purchase orders for expense, capital, and inventory purchases.
• Actively participates in the RFP process, researches and recommends replacement solutions for obsolete equipment, reviews scopes of work, evaluates supplier proposals, and supports maintenance, operations, engineering, and project teams with procurement activities.
• Supports maintenance planning by identifying long-lead-time materials, ensuring material availability for planned work, and coordinating supplier support during outages and shutdowns.
• Serves as SCOR leader for the plant; maintains spare parts inventory and supports maintenance planning activities.
• Performs and reconciles annual inventory counts, coordinates inventory additions and revisions, identifies obsolete materials, maintains inventory accuracy, establishes inventory levels for critical equipment, and supports preventive and predictive maintenance activities by ensuring materials are available for scheduled work.
• Assists the Maintenance Manager with maintenance planning, scheduling, shutdown preparation, and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Develops, monitors, and forecasts maintenance budgets and resource requirements; assists the Maintenance Manager in developing and monitoring annual maintenance budgets, outage budgets, and capital expenditures.
• Tracks expenditures, prepares budget forecasts, assists in prioritizing maintenance activities based on plant reliability needs, coordinates contractor schedules, and provides coverage for the Maintenance Manager during vacations, illness, and other absences.
• Assists the Commercial Manager with supplier qualification and contractor management activities; supports supplier setup, sustainability initiatives, contractor prequalification and requalification, service agreement administration, contractor performance monitoring, and coordination of contractor resources required for maintenance and capital projects.
• Provides coverage for the Commercial Manager during vacations, illness, and other absences.
• Participation in the On-Call Manager rotation is required.

Requirements

• High School Diploma required; College Diploma or Diploma from a vocational institution in Business is preferred.
• Minimum 3‑6 years of experience in industrial procurement, material sourcing, inventory control and spare parts management preferably supporting manufacturing operations.
• Experience collaborating with maintenance, engineering, operations, contractors in an industrial setting.
• Familiarity with contractor management, budgeting, cost control, and maintenance planning/scheduling is considered an asset.

Skills

• Strong health and safety mindset
• Strong relationship builder – collaborative, team‑builder
• Focused and results driven, transparent, and articulate
• Drives continuous improvement
• Resilient – can adapt to changing environments/technology
• Proactive – takes initiative, creative, stays ahead of the curve, enthusiastic, inspirational

Benefits

• Health and Dental Benefits on Day 1
• Health Care/Wellness Spending Account
• Annual Short Term Incentive Bonus
• Staff Recognition Awards
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Paid time off
• 401k match
• Disability Insurance
• Developmental opportunities – training courses, ERCO University, conference support

Pay

Salary: $70k‑$85k

Schedule

Hours: 40 hours per week