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Job Title :
Sr. Buyer/ Planner
Reporting To:
Manager, Operations
Work Schedule:
Onsite – Sunnyvale, CA Position Summary
Moog’s Space & Defense Group is seeking an experienced Sr. Buyer/Planner to support its Mountain View operation. This role owns purchasing and material-planning activities for assigned programs in a high-mix, low-volume aerospace manufacturing environment. The Sr. Buyer/Planner converts approved program demand into executable purchase and production plans, manages supplier commitments and performance, and provides accurate material status so Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Program teams can meet cost, quality, and schedule commitments.
The successful candidate is equally comfortable working in an ERP/MRP system, negotiating with suppliers, resolving shortages, and communicating clear recovery plans. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role requiring sound judgment, strong follow-through, and regular interaction with the production floor and supply base.
Key Responsibilities
Material Planning and Schedule Execution
Analyze program demand, bills of material, inventory, open supply, lead times, and capacity constraints to develop practical material and production plans.
Maintain accurate ERP/MRP planning parameters, including lead times, order policies, lot sizes, minimums/multiples, and required dates for assigned parts and suppliers.
Convert authorized demand into purchase requisitions, purchase orders, work orders, and kit requests in accordance with company processes and approval limits.
Create clear material-status, shortage, line-of-balance, and clear-to-build reporting; provide reliable completion and delivery dates to internal stakeholders.
Expedite, de-expedite, reschedule, or cancel supply as demand changes to protect program schedules while reducing excess, obsolete, and premature inventory.
Procurement and Supplier Performance
Manage the end-to-end purchase-order lifecycle for raw material, components, commercial items, tooling, outside/special processing, and other production-related goods and services.
Issue RFQs, evaluate bids, document source-selection rationale, perform price analysis, and negotiate price, lead time, delivery, and commercial terms within delegated authority.
Develop and execute sourcing approaches for assigned commodities or programs using approved suppliers; coordinate new-supplier evaluation and onboarding with Quality and Engineering.
Obtain timely supplier acknowledgments and commitments, monitor open orders and past-due items, lead routine status reviews, and escalate risks before they affect program milestones.
Monitor supplier on-time delivery, quality, responsiveness, and cost performance; coordinate recovery plans, returns, nonconformance resolution, and corrective actions with Quality and other functions.
Identify long-lead, constrained, and single-source risks and develop mitigation plans, including alternate-source or schedule-recovery options when appropriate.
Compliance, Data, and Cross-Functional Execution
Ensure purchase orders accurately include the current drawing/specification revision, quality requirements, contractual flowdowns, delivery requirements, and required supplier documentation.
Maintain complete and accurate procurement records, approvals, pricing support, supplier correspondence, and system data in accordance with company and applicable customer/government requirements.
Assess the supply-chain impact of engineering and configuration changes, including cost, lead time, existing inventory, open orders, and supplier implementation dates.
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