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Position Summary:

Responsible for executing the supply chain strategy for assigned commodities and assuring the continuous supply of assigned components to support customer service goals, minimize the total landed cost of material, and optimize safety, quality, delivery, and cost metrics. This position reports to the Supply Chain Manager. 

 

Principle Duties (includes, but is not limited to):

  • Proactively procure and plan materials to ensure uninterrupted flow of product to customers as required.  Lead the execution of supply chain strategy for assigned commodities.  Support CRANE’s objectives for material cost reduction, supplier quality improvement, supplier lead time reduction, improved reliability of supplier deliveries, and inventory reduction.
  • Drive continuous improvement in the supply base.  Work towards increased inventory turns, reduced cycle times, and improved Customer on-time delivery by managing pull-based material replenishment processes, including, but not limited to Kanban cards, vendor managed inventory and supplier consignments.
  • Evaluate and act upon demand and inventory signals for assigned commodities.  Generate and adjust purchase orders and/or shop work orders to support production schedules.  Input, maintain, and adjust records or transactions to ensure system validity.
  • Ensure quick resolution of shipping discrepancies, receiving errors, and invoice errors, and authorize inventory adjustments.  Coordinate adjustments to ship dates or quantities on open purchase orders as necessary.  Work to eliminate excess and obsolete parts, and to rationalize similar parts.
  • Effectively communicate forecasted requirements to external suppliers. Objectively measure and communicate supplier performance to support supply chain continuous improvement efforts. Interface with Suppliers, Quality, Strategic Sourcing, and Engineering to quickly resolve quality, delivery or cost issues.
  • Obtain competitive bids, analyze costs, and negotiate/award contracts to vendors based on total costs to the company commensurate with financial risks, quality standards, and delivery capabilities.  Provide effective support for new product development, proposal development, and subcontracting opportunities.
  • Work closely with the Value Stream, Commodity Management, Manufacturing, and Engineering teams to proactively identify, prioritize and complete resourcing and supplier development projects.  Support actions to rationalize the supply base, to drive increased sourcing from low-cost sources, to leverage the material spend with other CRANE business units, and to negotiate and implement supplier Long-Term Agreements (LTAs).
  • Participate in Continuous Improvement events to eliminate waste, create flow, and drive breakthrough results in metrics related to Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Growth.
  • Maintain awareness of world markets and emerging material-related issues in the industry and position the supply chain to flexibly respond accordingly.
  • Leverage technology solutions to maximize effectiveness and efficiency.
  • Effectively communicate areas of concern to appropriate departments, individuals and/or suppliers.
  • Engender a spirit of cooperation throughout the supply chain to ensure responsiveness to the customer.

 

Essential Qualifications / Experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain or other business-related field.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.  Ability to make timely, effective, fact-based decisions. This includes a strong working knowledge of MS Excel, data extraction and analysis, and MRP/ERP processes, including sales order-, purchase order-, and work order-management.
  • Self-starter with exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to perform and produce results in multifunctional teams in a dynamic work environment.
  • Customer-oriented focus with a creative and winning attitude.  Proven ability to develop collaborative relationships and influence up, down, and across organizational lines.
  • Willingness to travel 5%

Preferred Qualifications/Experience

  • Strong preference for analytical Bachelor’s degree, e.g., Business Analytics, Supply Chain, or Information Systems.
  • Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in a Supply Chain-related role.
  • Knowledge of supplier qualification processes and supplier performance metrics.
  • Experience with global sourcing.
  • Strong negotiation and contract management skills.
  • Knowledge of lean continuous improvement methods, esp. Toyota-based systems.
  • Knowledge of metals, metal-forming methods, and common quality defects.

Crane Co. reserves the right to change or assign other duties to this position. The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required and the scope of accountability and responsibility.  These descriptions should not be considered to be all-inclusive listings of work requirements. 

 Crane Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity characteristics or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, genetic information, or U.S. military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law, in recruiting, hiring, training and promoting.

About CRANE Instrumentation & Sampling

CRANE Instrumentation & Sampling is headquartered in Spartanburg, SC and specializes in small-bore fluid process control products and Sampling systems. Our Instrumentation product lines include HOKE valves (ball, check, needle, metering, and manifolds), GYROLOK compression tube fittings, and GO pressure regulators, which are made in a variety of materials. Our sampling product lines include Texas Sampling Incorporated (TSI) and Dopak Incorporated that design and manufacture grab sampling products and systems.  Our markets include petrochemical, refining, chemical, power, oil & gas, alternative fuels and industrial equipment manufacturers. We have a focus on severe and critical service products manufactured with safe and reliable performance as our key objective. CRANE Instrumentation & Sampling (I&S) has over 220 employees and a global sales and distribution network.

About CRANE ChemPharma & Energy

CRANE ChemPharma & Energy (within Crane's Process Flow Technology segment) designs and manufactures a variety of high performance products including: highly engineered check valves, sleeved plug valves, lined valves, process ball valves, high performance butterfly valves, bellows sealed globe valves, aseptic and industrial diaphragm valves, multi/quarter-turn valves, actuation, sight glasses, lined pipe, fittings and hoses, and air operated diaphragm and peristaltic pumps. Its trusted brands (in alphabetical order) ALOYCO®, CENTER LINE®, COMPAC-NOZ®, CRANE®, DEPA®, DUO-CHEK®, ELRO®, FLOWSEAL®, JENKINS®, KROMBACH®, NOZ-CHEK®, PACIFIC VALVES®, RESISTOFLEX®, REVO®, SAUNDERS®, STOCKHAM®, TRIANGLE®, UNI-CHEK®, VALVES®, WTA®, and XOMOX® offer customers complete and innovative product portfolio designed for the most demanding corrosive, erosive, and high purity applications. Among the industries served are the chemical processing, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, oil & gas, refining, and power generation.

About Crane 

Crane Co. is a diversified manufacturer of highly engineered industrial products. Founded in 1855, Crane provides products and solutions to customers in the aerospace, electronics, hydrocarbon processing, petrochemical, chemical, power generation, automated merchandising, transportation and other markets. The Company has three business segments: Aerospace & Electronics, Engineered Materials, and Process Flow Technologies. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, Crane has approximately 11,000 employees and operates in 32 countries. Crane Co. is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:CR) 

www.craneco.com