Metal/Polymer Buyer

Your Contribution

• Guide the plant personnel to ensure appropriate Process Technology and Production Systems are specified and installed, and assets are used productively and in line with customer demands.
• Provide advice to the plants for the development and implementation of low cost, high OEE equipment along with complementary systems and training to ensure line output and productivity are maximized, scrap rates and customer complaints are minimized, and robust monitoring, root cause and corrective action systems, MPS, TPM, poke yoke, kanban, and general lean manufacturing systems are fully understood and implemented.
• Monitor scrap and productivity and identify areas for improvement based on benchmarking and trend analysis. Support the plants to implement the identified improvements and build in lessons learnt.
• Follow up and encourage continuous improvement projects and ensure the ideas are shared and implemented in other plants across the regions.
• Instigate and/or actively support cost reduction, process and efficiency optimization, and problem solving etc.
• Assess the capability and competences of the engineering teams. Help to organize the creation of training and development plans, along with mentoring and appropriate training (internal, external, domestic and at other MAHLE plants) to develop competent, professional, local engineering teams.
• Support plants for customer audits, customer complaints and in new business development.

Your experience & Qualifications

• University Bachelor degree or above
• 3+ years of work experience and willingness to proactively engage in purchasing tasks is mandatory
• Purchasing/Buyer experience in Metal or Polymer is a plus
• Project Manager/ R & D/Quality experience is a plus
• Working knowledge of business systems (SAP etc) is a plus
• Experience in Automotive or Manufacturing industry is a plus
• Experience in global company is a plus
• Fluency in Japanese. Fluency in English is a plus

Working Location

• Numazu shi, Shizuoka prefecture