What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inventory Specialist position at Balance Staffing?
Job Summary:
Responsible for recording and maintaining control of all inventory items purchased and produced.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage inventory programs, including inventory estimates and analyses, maintenance of tracked metrics, reporting to management, and resolution of inventory issues.
- Proactively increase turnover by customer product and meet corporate goals.
- Provide recommendations for purchasing strategies, inventory disposition, and inventory management.
- Monitor Purchase Orders (POs) from a macro level for over-commits, cancellations, and push-outs.
- Actively manage the cycle count program, reconciliation, metrics, and outside audits.
- Follow up on Engineering Change Notices (ECNs) for affected material disposition.
- Final review and reconciliation of work order variance and closure.
- Coordinate product transfers to other manufacturing sites.
Other Duties:
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong presentation skills at all levels.
- Knowledge of cost accounting principles, procedures, and standards.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Strong Excel and Access skills.
- Working knowledge of MRP/ERP system – Visual a plus.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment across many levels of the organization and on an inter-site basis.
Educational/Certification Requirement:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or equivalent experience.
- APICS certification preferred.
Experience Requirement:
Work Experience:
- 3 years of inventory analyst experience. Cost accounting experience strongly preferred. Manufacturing experience as a scheduler or planner is a plus.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Criteria:
Work Environment:
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work is performed primarily in a standard office environment.
Work Hours:
- Standard office hours.
Physical Demands:
- Ability to stand for sustained periods of time.
- Ability to move arms, hands, and fingers.
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs.
- Ability to lift over 25 lbs. with assistance.
- Ability to sit for sustained periods of time.
- Ability to talk on the phone and use a computer for extended periods of time may be required.
Environmental Exposure:
- Subject to frequent interruptions.
- Required to wear personal protective equipment where applicable.
- May involve exposure to moderate noise levels from printers, faxes, computers, etc.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $21.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekends as needed
Work Location: In person
Salary : $21
