Buyer/Planner
Mason welcomes people who share our determination and high standards to join us in doing work that moves the world forward. We design, manufacture, and market highly engineered products and systems principally for the aerospace and defense markets. Mason, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Transdigm, offers world-class control devices and subsystems - such as control grips, throttles, HaWC controllers, and communications interfaces - for today's advanced cockpits, military vehicles, and other specialized applications. Our solutions fall into two broad categories: control products and components.
Job Summary
Compiles information and records to prepare purchase orders for procurement of material. Performs a wide variety of complex planning activities required to attain production objectives.
Primary Responsibilities
- Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests.
- Reviews requisitions, confers with vendors to obtain product or service information such as price, availability, and delivery schedule.
- Places orders with vendors, researches and acquires new sources for purchasing regular items, organizing vendor lists and files.
- Writes or types purchase order and sends a copy to supplier and department originating request.
- Confers with suppliers concerning late deliveries.
- Compares prices, specifications, and delivery dates and awards contract to bidders or places orders with suppliers or mail order firms.
- Discusses defective or unacceptable goods with inspection or quality control personnel, users, vendors, and others to determine source of trouble and takes corrective action.
- Performs related duties of which the above may be representative.
- Plans sequence of fabrication, assembly, installation, and other manufacturing operations for guidance of production workers.
- Expedites operations that delay schedules and alters schedules to meet unforeseen conditions.
- Prepares production reports for daily production meetings.
- Prepares and determines material requirements to support manufacturing schedules and customer requirements.
- Works with specified customers to insure scheduled deliveries and to communicate problems as they arise.
- Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The duties and responsibilities are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. The position also requires the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Additionally, it requires the ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. Also, ability to understand and carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form is necessary. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Previous Experience Requirements
This position requires an associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent from a technical school; or five years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education or experience.
Other
Pay Compensation Range for this Exempt: $80,000-$105,000.00
This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). This position requires either U.S persons (as defined in applicable export regulations) or a non [1] U.S person who is eligible to obtain required export authorization(s).
Mason prohibits discrimination or harassment based on the following categories: race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act or the California Family Rights Act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other status protected by state or federal law.
Mason Controls
May 02, 2025 