Inventory Specialist

Inventory Control Specialist

The candidate should have practical, hands-on experience in inventory, warehouse, materials, or distribution operations, with demonstrated ability in:

• Inventory Control
  • Receiving, counting, organizing, and tracking inventory
  • Maintaining accurate inventory quantities
  • Performing cycle counts and investigating discrepancies
  • Understanding the importance of inventory accuracy
  • Identifying shortages, overages, damaged material, and inventory discrepancies
• Pick & Pack
  • Experience picking material/products from inventory based on orders, work orders, or pick lists
  • Packing and preparing material for shipment or delivery
  • Verifying quantities and part numbers before material leaves inventory
  • Ability to work accurately while maintaining reasonable productivity
• Returns / Material Coming Back from the Field
  • Experience receiving products or materials back from customers, jobsites, technicians, drivers, or field personnel
  • Inspecting returned material
  • Determining whether material is reusable, damaged, incomplete, or requires further disposition
  • Properly documenting returned material
• Return-to-Stock
  • Experience putting returned or unused material back into inventory
  • Verifying the correct item and quantity
  • Returning material to the proper inventory location
  • Updating the inventory system so physical inventory matches system inventory
• Materials Management Systems
  • Functional experience using an inventory, warehouse, ERP, WMS, or materials-management system
  • Ability to enter, retrieve, and update inventory information
  • Comfortable learning a new inventory management system
  • Understanding that physical inventory and system inventory must remain synchronized
• Spreadsheets / Computer Skills
  • Basic-to-intermediate Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet experience
  • Ability to enter, sort, filter, and organize data
  • Comfortable working with inventory lists and reports
  • Ability to identify discrepancies or unusual inventory information

Physical / Operational Requirements Because this is a working inventory position, the candidate should be comfortable with:

• Working on their feet for extended periods
• Repeated walking, bending, reaching, lifting, and moving material
• Working in a warehouse/fabrication environment
• Safely handling a variety of materials
• Using pallet jacks, carts, forklifts, or similar material-handling equipment or be willing to learn
• Working in an environment where priorities can change throughout the day

The successful candidate needs to be:

• Detail-oriented
• Organized
• Reliable
• Accountable
• Comfortable working independently
• Able to follow established processes
• Able to recognize when something doesn't look right
• Willing to ask questions rather than guess
• Comfortable working with numbers and quantities
• Able to prioritize competing requests
• Able to communicate effectively with warehouse, fabrication, purchasing, logistics, and field personnel
• Comfortable working in a sometimes fast-paced environment
• Able to stay focused when interrupted or priorities change