What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inventory Control Specialist position at The Franklin Group Inc?
Description:
Let’s share a little about FBS and then we welcome you to apply:
- We are so proud to be 100% Employee Owned. We hire owners, not employees! This means that employees earn ownership in our company through their work and build their net worth based on the company’s change in value over time. Once eligible, you start your journey to ownership with an annual gift of stock averaging 17% of what you make each year!
- For our sixth consecutive year, we ranked in the Top 10 Best Places to Work in Idaho.
- Franklin Building Supply is a lumber and building material company that has been in business for more than 45 years. We have locations spread across Idaho and one in Nevada.
- We supply just about everything besides plumbing and electrical to build homes. Our focus is on serving professional home builders. Along with providing materials, we install a wide range of products including framing, overhead doors, insulation, gutters, siding, and more. We also manufacture some products including trusses, cabinets, doors, and granite countertops.
- Our company is full of outstanding people who have been working for Franklin Building Supply for 10, 20, or 30 years. We’re working harder than anyone else in our market to get better every day, adding value for customers and improving the value of our company for our employees.
- We are committed to working safer, smarter, and more efficiently than ever before. We are making significant investments in tools, equipment, training, and positions like this to help our team reach its potential.
- Along with competitive compensation, we offer competitive benefits that would be expected including medical/Rx and dental insurance, 401(k), paid time off, holiday pay, disability & life insurance, etc.
Primary purpose: to receive inventory accurately and monitor/maintain count schedules.
Some duties and responsibilities include:
Inventory for Yard
- Monitoring and maintaining proper count schedules
- Ensuring proper count team members are assigned
- Creating and maintaining stock count templates
- Activating daily stock counts
- Physical counts of all products on templates
- Inputting counts into BisTrack & reconciling variances
- Sending of final reports with notes for completion
- Checking stock for sales and yard personnel
- Going through Negative Quantity’s on had report
Special Order Return Processing
- Identifying special order returns for processing
- Inspecting material is up to vendor standards for returning
- Tagging and placing material for processing
- Communicating with Sales on reasons for returns
- Contacting and coordinating with vendors for return
- Creating Supplier Returns
- Processing RMA’s
- Maintaining Special Order Bay
- Keeping Records of all special-order returns from processing to processed
- Crediting customers when material has been credited by Vendor
Important, may be essential depending on specific duties/tasks assigned:
- May oversee Will-Call department
- Leading will-call team (4 team members)
- Assigning team members with tasks and duties
- Coordinating paperwork with sales departments
- Calling out and dispersing will call paperwork to team members
- Directing customer service
- Overlooking the safe handling of material and loading methods of customers
- Handling customer disputes and customer related issues
- Load customer vehicles
Required:
- Forklift Certified (or become so within 30 days)
- The ability to perform physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
- Able to learn to identify various grades of lumber and building materials
- Able to work in inclement weather
- Willing to be versatile, self-motivated & team-oriented
- Adjust approach to fill demands on the fly
- Respect others, friendly and approachable
- Represent the company in a way that conveys a good impression to customers
- Disciplined to show up on time and complete tasks by deadlines
- Willingness to contribute and be flexible to fulfill the needs of the team
- Willing to do more than what is required, happily except tasks
- Willing to take the initiative to show someone else how things ought to work
- Familiarity with hand/power tools
Strongly Preferred:
- Accept and learn from constructive criticism
- Some computer experience