The posting
Reporting to the MRO Supervisor, you will manage the external procurement of maintenance, repair, and operations spare parts, operating supplies, and services required to support facility operations. You will help ensure timely, cost-effective, and compliant purchasing while maintaining accurate indirect material deliveries and services. You will support maintenance reliability, inventory accuracy, and plant operational continuity.
A Taste of Your Responsibilities
- Process purchase requisitions and purchase orders for maintenance materials, operating supplies, and services.
- Review material requirements planning activity and respond to purchasing needs, exceptions, expediting, order changes, and cancellations.
- Manage purchase orders from supplier release through delivery and invoice processing, resolving late, incomplete, or incorrect orders.
- Partner with suppliers to request quotes, confirm pricing and delivery dates, and address material shortages.
- Maintain purchasing and material data, including purchasing information records, source lists, safety stock, delivery times, and other planning information.
- Monitor inventory and material transitions, support cycle counts, and help manage excess and obsolete inventory.
- Review goods receipts and invoice receipts and resolve discrepancies.
- Create, extend, and modify materials in PiLog to support plant needs.
- Prepare purchasing reports and metrics, including past-due and unacknowledged purchase orders.
- Manage purchasing card transactions and reconciliation.
Ingredients Required for Your Success
- 1 to 3 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or maintenance operations.
- Familiarity with SAP transactions, including stock and requirements collective display, stock requirements list, list display of purchase requisitions, and purchase order creation.
- Experience in indirect purchasing or maintenance, repair, and operations procurement within a manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Understanding of material requirements planning principles and inventory management is preferred.
- High school diploma or GED required; Bachelor's degree in a related field is preferred.
- Familiarity with industrial maintenance and maintenance, repair, and operations parts, including common mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and plumbing components.
- Experience prioritizing and processing daily purchasing needs in a fast-paced environment.
- Effective communication with suppliers and cross-functional plant teams.
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills grounded in operational urgency.
Physical Requirements
More information about essential tasks and the facility will be shared during the hiring process. This role may require you to be in our manufacturing facilities. When visiting these sites, the physical requirements below may apply:
- You may be required to walk around the facility, climb stairs/ladders, kneel, or perform repetitive tasks that require hand-eye coordination.
- You may be required to lift or carry materials that can vary in weight and size.
- This is a manufacturing environment with large, moving equipment. Noise levels can be high, and temperatures may vary.
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Compensation
Annual Base Salary: $59,000.00 - $65,000.00
The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.
Our Benefits
We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:
- Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
- Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
- Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
- Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
Our Company
At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.
Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.
Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.
