# Buyer Planner

The Experienced Planner / Buyer position is responsible for the planning, scheduling, procurement and expediting of raw materials and finished goods in support of the manufacturing organization. Utilize best procurement practices, including managing the supplier, to ensure optimal pricing, while meeting the department’s goals for cost reduction, quality improvement, on-time delivery, inventory management and lead time reduction. Responsibilities Maintain complete ownership of the procurement process to include creating requisitions and ensuring on-time delivery of required materials including, but not limited to, ordering, expediting, and returns. Plan material needs for production and facility. Analyze/adjust inventory levels as required to coincide with changing customer demand, lead time changes and other initiatives. Utilize Materials Requirements Planning System and other planning tools or develop tools as required. Work closely with Quality and Manufacturing to monitor and correct all supplier non-conformance issues. Interface with vendors with respect to price negotiation, availability of materials, delivery time and supplier visits. Develop and execute vendor supply agreeme

- **Id**: 3857958
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/afl-buyer-planner>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Duncan, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T07:26:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T02:17:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2705
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Broadband, Optical Communications, Electrical Equipment & Cables

## Company

- **Id**: 1851112
- **Name**: AFL
- **Domain**: aflglobal.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aflglobal>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T07:26:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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