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Production Buyer/Planner Specialist
Wolfspeed
Accounting & Finance
North Carolina, USA
Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2023
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Here’s the Gist:
Join the pack! Wolfspeed’s Materials Expansion team is seeking a Production Buyer/Planner in the Materials expansion procurement group. The ideal candidate will possess previous hands-on experience in semiconductor processing and related equipment. This position will support the Materials Development Engineering Group’s machine/project shops for their procurement and project management needs.
This posting is for a position that will directly support operations at the John Palmour Manufacturing Center for Silicon Carbide, our expansion site in Siler City, NC. The person in this role will report in-person to train at our Durham, NC headquarters initially until the new site is ready.
The Day-to-Day
- Identifying, specifying and ordering materials, device and electromechanical components, machine tools and their support elements, for the various machining and tool projects flowing through the shops.
- Tracking and maintaining project budgets and will act as the external facing purchasing resource to the vendors whose materials, equipment and tools support the project needs.
- Maintain inventories, track projects and consumables, and develop a wide range of support vendors in order to minimize delivery times, as well as identifying alternative components and tooling sources to satisfy project needs.
- Establish detailed bill of materials (BOM) documents for a given project and/or tool build, such that when an additional tool of that type needs to be fabricated you will be able to quickly order all needed components from your assembled BOM.
- Help establish inventory practices in order to track inventories and establish automated procedures to know when and in what volume to order consumables and critical long lead time components.
- Track purchases from identification, through requisition, approvals, purchase order, delivery, and final on-site destination.
This Job is Right for You If You Have:
- An Associates degree.
- Experience in a high-volume semiconductor environment with hands-on process and equipment know-how, in addition to demonstrated experience with production planning to support your internal Wolfspeed customer.
- Experience with SAP Ariba.
- Being able to maintain budgets, determine burn rates, and pull project data from a wide range of sources in order to track a project’s progress and give a timely heads-up if projects are deviating from plan.
- Strong interpersonal skills to act with a range of people from executives to end-user are desired.
- Proficient with MS Office suite.
- Advanced skills with MS Excel – Power BI is a plus.
- Strong sense of urgency and attention to detail.
- Excellent organization, communications and follow-up skills.
- An energetic, analytical individual who can service a dynamic and exciting team.
This role may require additional duties and/or assignments as designated by management.
This role requires the lawful ability to access technical data, information, and areas controlled by United States export control laws and regulations. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship by the Company.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.