Buyer

Position Title:

Buyer 1

Eligibility Criteria:

• Years of Experience: 1.5- 3 years
• Job Experience: Experience in an MRP-based Planning for Spare Parts
• Educational: Engineering or equivalent degree

Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assuring the availability of replenishment spare parts and upgrade kits for Lam Customers as well as for regional depots.
• Manage the planning and resupply of material for an assigned set of parts, in support of organizational asset management and customer service goals
• Rely on both the analysis of historical consumption and the technical expertise of new product evaluation
• Implement ERP planning parameter changes as determined by the established process of parameter review against demand and installed base
• Reviews and reacts to MRP exception messages to correct due-date shortfalls in planned supply, with a focus on specific customer account requirements for material availability and corporate financial results for asset management
• Conduct Root Cause and Corrective Action analyses unexpected, undesirable results and present them to management
• Support execution to established NCU procedures, controls, and governance requirements.
• Drive machine down threat allocation deployment actions to process scarce materials availability at regions.
• Support planning and execution of repair, refurb and cores availability coordinating with reverse logistics team.
• Support critical Manufacturing requirements from spares network within set process guidelines.

Mandatory Skills required to perform the job:

• Strong skills in the areas of service parts/spares parts planning
• Strong analytical, problem solving and system skills
• Proficiency in SAP MM OR worked in any ERP, MS Office Skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint)
• Advanced level in MS Excel
• Intermediate level MS Access
• High energy, strong work ethic, adaptive, able to meet tight deadlines
• Proven ability and skill set to analyze, document and improve business processes with sustained results
• High level of customer interfacing skills, effective listener, professional and courteous
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to communicate cross-functionally
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a desire to work as part of a team

Desirable Skill:

• Familiarity with service planning, forecasting, and optimization system software (Preferably SPM)
• Semiconductor capital equipment product knowledge and relevant experience in the semiconductor industry