Job description
- Generous Paid time Off – New employees accrue up to 31 paid days off including 15 flexible use PTO days, 10 paid Holidays, 2 Personal days. Bridgeways also closes for the final week of the year.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance with medical premiums starting as low as $15/pay period. Our benefits start the 1st of the month after you are hired to prevent a break in coverage.
- 401K with employer matching after 90 days and immediate vesting.
- A robust Employee Assistance Plan. Program benefits include free counseling, retirement, financial planning and care provider services and resources.
- Optional voluntary life, accident, cancer, and critical illness insurance plans
SUMMARY of Buyer & Planner | Purchasing | Estimator
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Acquires and demonstrates awareness, understanding and proficiency in the ERP System in managing the flow of information, components, and assemblies to and from Bridgeways ensuring on-time delivery to its customers.
- Acts as point of contact internally and to all potential and current Customers, providing resolution to customer issues, delivery problems, part shortages, etc
- Prepares quotes and responds to RFQ’s from Customers and Vendors. Works collaboratively to gather all related documentation, proposals and specifications to ensure time, cost, material and labor estimates are accurate.
- Assists with expediting parts through shop, acquiring overtime letters and informing departments of priority changes.
- Analyzes, manages and maintains inventory parameters (safety stock, lead time, reorder points) for purchased parts to support efficient inventory levels and management practices. Works with suppliers on forecasting, inventory stocking programs, blanket purchase orders and price negotiations. Enters all required purchase orders and sends to vendors. Advise Management of competitive situations, alternative supply sources, price changes, trends, etc.
- Assists QC with certifications, supplier paperwork, missing pieces on receipt and process defective (Return to Vendor) material. Resolves receipt and invoice discrepancies.
- Audits customer manufacturing criteria (i.e., drawings, specifications, tooling, PCMs, ECOs, etc.) and purchase orders to ensure that all information required to produce a product is available in house or on order.
- Develops, audits and provides job routings for a variety of aircraft and non-aircraft products based upon required manufacturing processes, quality processes and customer requirements.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed above satisfactorily. Ability to understand engineering drawings and involved assembly instruction. Proficient with PC including Excel, Word and Outlook.
- High school and four years-related experience and/or training in the manufacturing field; or equivalent combination experience and education. Aerospace experience is strongly preferred. Experience in Lean Manufacturing, Quality Control, Production and Inventory Control, General Manufacturing and ISO 9000 or AS 9100 quality systems is highly desirable. Experience with production planning software or ERP systems.
- Can read, analyze, and understand technical drawings and specifications regarding manufacturing. Can respond and effectively present information to common inquiries or complaints. Effective communication skills and ability to be a team player.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, stoop, kneel, crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
About Bridgeways:
Based in Everett, and serving Snohomish County, Bridgeways incorporated in 1981. Bridgeways is run as a social enterprise, offering manufacturing services to companies of all sizes with projects ranging from sourcing, production, assembly, bonding, and wiring. Bridgeways also offers clinical services to adults living with mental health concerns. Services include Supported Housing, Supported Employment, Therapeutic Courts Programs for mental health and substance use disorders. Bridgeways also has a PATH (Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness) program that engages in community outreach. While our array of programs and methods of delivering services has evolved to meet changing community needs, the ever-shifting healthcare landscape, and taking into account services offered by other providers in Snohomish County – our essential mission has remained the same since 1981.
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