Sr Procurement Buyer

We engineer solutions for the world’s most critical missions. We serve customers in the defense and aerospace markets. Seeking a career that offers challenging, diverse projects and opportunities? Looking for a position with a company that offers long-term professional advancement? Searching for a place that values a diverse, team-based environment? One that values YOU.

Honeywell is seeking a will make an impact on the production team by planning, preparing issues, and controls production schedules, coordinating material requirements to ensure a controlled flow of approved materials timed to meet production requirements. This role also advises management of the status of work in progress, material availability, and potential production problems to ensure that personnel, equipment, materials and services are provided as needed.

You will report directly to our Production Control Manager, and you’ll work out of our San Jose CA location on an On-site work schedule.

If precision is your passion and excellence is your standard, we want you on our team.

• Develops plans and schedules for Operations activities on assigned critical programs. Provides technical guidance to lower-level planning personnel. Provides support to the Program Manager in the development and maintenance of first unit flow plans and documents.
• Confers with Operations Manager and program personnel to secure and coordinate information necessary for the development of manufacturing plans and schedules. Assures that planning data items are properly maintained in ERP System and are compatible with applicable program plans and schedules.
• Analyzes various support data (computer reports, drawings, bills of material, lead times, fixed order quantities, etc.) to establish Master Demand and Manufacturing Kit Release schedules in support of contractual end item delivery requirements. Generates appropriate documents to assure plans and schedules are properly input into the ERP system. Investigates the causes of schedule impacts and recommends corrective action(s).
• Compiles monthly program summaries and status packages. Prepares charts, graphs and reports outlining program status against schedule for presentation to management.
• Assists with schedules and status of Operations non-recurring activities associated with design release, tooling, process development and test equipment. Analyzes the complexity of proposed engineering changes to assess the impact on Operations activities.
• Works to assess operations capacity and level loading.
• Reviews various reports to ensure Company inventory & scheduling systems are accurate and properly maintained. Works with department management to facilitate the collection and analysis of data in support of various department performance measurements and metrics. Recommends procedural changes when warranted
• Coordinate with Configuration Management to keep plans and schedules compatible with product structures. Attends Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings and analyzes engineering change orders (ECO) activity to determine complexity and minimize cost and schedule impacts.
• Maintains state-of-the-art knowledge of the latest planning and scheduling techniques and applications. Maintains appropriate knowledge of Material Management Accounting System (MMAS) requirements.