Senior Buyer - Overhaul and Repairs

Eaton’s AER FED division is currently seeking an Overhaul and Repairs Senior Buyer to join our team. This position will be located at our Beltsville, MD facility.      The Overhaul and Repairs Senior Buyer is responsible for procuring, planning, and coordinating materials required to support the timely repair and delivery of customer products for the Beltsville Repair Station. This role manages supplier sourcing, ordering, and material availability while aligning demand requirements with repair schedules to support shop execution. In this role, you will work cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Customer Support. The position proactively identifies material shortages, supplier constraints, and lead-time risks that may impact turnaround time (TAT).   The expected annual salary range for this role is $99000 - $145000 a year.   Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.  What you’ll do: 
 •    Plan and procure materials required to support repair execution, ensuring adequate availability while minimizing excess inventory, obsolescence, and material aging. Ensure material clears receiving inspection and is released for shop-floor use in a timely manner. •    Manage material transactions, allocations, and expedites as needed to support repair schedules, AOG priorities, and committed turnaround times. •    Release and manage purchase orders (POs) for repair parts and outside processing, following up with suppliers to ensure on-time delivery, successful inspection release, and minimal repair delays. •    Act as the primary Materials Planning Analyst for the Repair Station, responsible for aligning repair demand with material availability, capacity, and customer requirements. •    Manage repair order queues to ensure smooth workflow and timely progression of priority and critical repairs in accordance with established priorities in order to achieve committed turnaround times (TAT) and promise dates. •    Responsible for Planning KPI performance - Own Planning KPI performance for the Repair Station, maintaining daily and monthly metrics including backlog, past-due orders, turnaround time (TAT), sales, and priority/critical repair performance. Track and provide updates to team in daily tier meetings. •    Collaborate with operations, engineering, quality, and customer service teams to proactively resolve material, capacity, or process constraints impacting repair flow and turnaround time in order to support repair shop execution and schedule adherence. •    Identify and onboard new suppliers. Qualifications: 
 Required (Basic) Qualifications: •    Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. •    Minimum of two (2) years professional experience in supply chain within a manufacturing environment. •    Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.  •    This position requires access to export-controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must be a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158. •    No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Beltsville, MD will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.   Preferred Qualifications: •    Minimum of three (3) years professional experience in supply chain within a manufacturing environment. •    Minimum of one (1) year professional experience in supply chain supporting a Repair Station. •    Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP)