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- Job Title: Buyer Planner
- Location: Rochester, NY, US, 14623
- Business Unit: Zygo
- Posting Date: Oct 23, 2026
About the role
At Zygo, your skills and insights will be integral to our core values of curiosity, collaboration, and persistence. For over 50 years, Zygo Corporation in Middlefield, CT, has been a global leader in designing and manufacturing advanced optical metrology systems, ultra-precise optical components, and complex electro-optical systems and assemblies. Join our team, where your expertise will drive cutting-edge solutions, address complex technical challenges, and uphold the highest standards of precision and safety.
- As a
- Buyer Planner for our
- Navitar team in
- Rochester, NY
, you will ensure materials are available to support production and customer delivery while balancing cost, lead time, and inventory. The role combines purchasing and materials planning, managing supplier commitments, and partnering across functions to identify risks, resolve shortages, and maintain continuity of supply.
Key Responsibilities
Safety, People, Quality, Delivery, Value: SAFETY
Follow safety requirements and escalate supplier, material, or process risks affecting safety, product integrity, or compliance.
People
Build effective supplier and cross-functional relationships; communicate priorities, risks, and recovery plans with urgency and accountability.
Quality
- Coordinate supplier responses to nonconforming material and documentation issues.
- Maintain accurate purchasing and planning data; support quality requirements, engineering changes, and new product introductions.
Delivery
- Analyze demand, schedules, and MRP signals to determine material requirements and priorities.
- Create, maintain, and expedite purchase orders; monitor shortages, commitments, and constraints.
- Develop mitigation plans and maintain planning parameters to support production and customer delivery.
Value
- Balance availability, cost, lead time, and inventory to reduce shortage, excess, and obsolescence risk.
- Monitor supplier quality, delivery, responsiveness, and cost; support sourcing, negotiation, and continuous improvement.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 3 years of purchasing, materials planning, supply chain, or manufacturing operations experience.
- Working knowledge of ERP/MRP, purchasing, material planning, inventory, and supplier management.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, communication, and Microsoft Excel skills.
- Ability to manage changing priorities and collaborate across functions.
- Uses data and investigates root causes before acting.
- Builds trust and works across functions to resolve constraints.
- Maintains urgency and follow-through until issues are resolved.
- Makes sound decisions and escalates risk with facts and recommendations.
- Owns commitments, data accuracy, and outcomes.
- Connects decisions to production and customer requirements.
- Improves cost, inventory, quality, and delivery performance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in precision manufacturing, optics, aerospace, defense, medical device, or another regulated environment.
- Experience with ERP platforms.
- Experience with new product introductions, engineering changes, supplier corrective actions, or inventory reduction.
- APICS/ASCM, ISM, or related supply chain certification.
- Bring your passion and commitment to Zygo, where we are curious, collaborative, persistent, and confident, and where safety and quality guide every step of our journey.
- Grow with us as we solve complex challenges, inspire confidence, and drive excellence in manufacturing.
- Are you ready to expand the boundaries of possibility, simplify the complex, and embody the values that define our success?
- We welcome your unique perspective and invite you to join us!
Pay and benefits
We offer competitive compensation, benefits, retirement (401(k)), and paid time off programs. Compensation and position level will be set based on experience.
Due to the nature of Zygo’s programs and products, applicants must have the legal right to work in the United States and must be legally authorized to access export-controlled information and source code.
Compensation
- Employee Type: Salaried
- Currency: USD
- Salary Minimum: 65,000
- Salary Maximum: 80,000
- Incentive: No
Benefits
For more information on AMETEK's competitive benefits, please:
AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.5 billion.
AMETEK is committed to making a safer, sustainable, and more productive world a reality. We use differentiated technology solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We employ 22,000 colleagues, in 35 countries, that are grounded by our core values: Ethics and Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Inclusion, Teamwork, and Social Responsibility. AMETEK is a component of the S&P 500. Visit for more information.
- Nearest Major Market: Rochester
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Equal opportunity and legal notices
Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should call.
From AMETEK's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 5, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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