Inventory Coordinator

Summary
The Inventory Control Coordinator is responsible for inventory accuracy, cycle counting, reporting, and adjustments. This role is a resource to address production and inventory errors in the system, including investigating errors and assisting with various requests from other departments.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Owns managing ingredients, packaging materials, and/or finished good inventory
• Coordinate material transfers between the two warehouses.
• Needs to assist in managing FIFO/FEFO, proper documentation, and other FSQ requirements
• Regular cycle counting inventory according to prescribed criteria.
• Assists with fiscal year end audit.
• Able to investigate errors and discrepancies to understand the root cause and make corrections.
• Have a strong working relationship with Production, FSQ, Procurement, Customer Service, and other departments as needed.
• Be a subject matter expert on PowerHouse WMS system, NetSuite ERP, and other systems as needed.
• Reviews production entries and/or batch issuing on daily basis.
• Monitor and close jobs in PowerHouse as needed.
• Support loss and waste analysis as needed.
• Verifies and confirms the recording of all ingredient and packaging materials entry and exit transactions in our Powerhouse WMS system.
• Performs other clerical tasks as required.
• Ensure work is in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Safe Quality Food (SQF) standards.

Education

1. High School Education, GED, or equivalent.

2. Associate or bachelors degree in business, Accounting, Information Technology, or a related field strongly desired

Minimum Qualifications

• Forklift experience
• Ability to support warehouse functions in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to use various computer systems, including Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, Warehouse, and Inventory systems, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

Two years experience in a Warehouse and/or Inventory Management role

• Previous experience operating a forklift in a manufacturing and/or distribution environment
• Experience working in the Food &/or Beverage industry or other regulated industry with high-quality standards
• Understanding of Lean Manufacturing principals

Supervisory Responsibility

This position does not have any supervisory responsibilities.

Skills

The desired skills are outlined below:

• Written and verbal communication skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Technical skills
• People skills

Abilities

The desired abilities are outlined below:

• Ability to work well in a team environment.
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to pass a drug test.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work long hours, as needed, including weekends.
• Ability to overcome unforeseen obstacles.

Work Environment

The work environment can range from extremely cold (zero degrees) upwards of eighty-ninety degrees in the warehouse, although the main warehouse is climate controlled. The work environment is typically noisy with regular amounts of machine noises including but not limited to typical sounds from forklifts, freight trucks, high lifts, and other manufacturing-related machinery. The smell of related chemicals and lubricants may occur.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee is regularly required to be able to bend, stand, reach, or lift. The employee is required to be able to lift items on a regular basis, up to 50 pounds.