Auburn Hills
Commodity Buyer - Raw Materials
As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.Your tasks
Plan, perform engineering analyses of supplier manufacturing models and supply chain, and execute NA purchasing and strategic supplier sourcing strategies and procure aluminum commodities and coating commodities including e-coatings, powder coating, thermal diffusion, and zinc plating, for sourcing and delivery to plants
Plan and implement supplier strategies reports to meet delivery, price terms, quality, warranty, and lifetime profitability requirements for aluminum and coating commodities and present reports to Purchasing Leadership.
Apply tools including Lean Manufacturing, Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA), and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
Benchmark and evaluate supplier plant manufacturing processes, evaluate supplier Production Part Approval Process (PPAPs) for series programs, and ensure suppliers and plant production team meet International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949 and ISO 14001 Standard for Automotive Quality Management Systems (QMS) standards, and Development, Ramp-up, Start of Production (SOP), and Series Production contractual requirements.
Your Profile
- Bachelor, Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or related.
- Twenty-four months’ experience as Engineer, Coordinator, Leader, or related, evaluating supplier plant manufacturing processes and Production Part Approval Process (PPAPs) for series programs, and ensuring suppliers meet IATF 16949 standards, and Start of Production (SOP) contractual requirements, or related.