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Summer Intern - Undergraduate: Material Management - Expediting

The Procurement & Material Management Department is responsible for the acquisition of all products and services that are necessary to support the day-to-day railroad operations that serve our customers, Metro-North's corporate business requirements, and the MTA's Capital Program.

P&MM also provides material support services for the Operating Division in the form of storage, issues, transfers, and distribution, and manages the sale and disposition of surplus, excess/obsolete and scrap materials and equipment that Metro-North no longer utilizes.

P&MM is committed to conducting the procurement process in a manner that provides quality products and services to our internal customers in a timely fashion, while ensuring fairness and impartiality to the vendor community and adhering to the specific regulatory requirements of Metro-North's various funding organizations.

The Department consists of five subgroups: Capital Procurement, Operating Procurement, Material Management, Policy, Procedures & Quality.

The Material Management sub-group of Procurement & Material Management is responsible for the planning, receipt, storage and distribution of standard stock material to support Metro-North Railroad operations. This position will assist in the expediting activities in support of vendor performance initiatives to ensure material availability for our end user production schedules.

Responsibilities:

Perform data validation for system entry.

Perform PeopleSoft updating in the area of repairable stock cataloging.

Perform data entry in PeopleSoft / PIES on material planning requests.

Assist in a section TEAM effort of the identification of process efficiencies.

Creation of queries and reporting of data in Microsoft Access from various internal sources for departmental use.