Warehouse & Inventory Job Description
Warehouse & Inventory Duties & Responsibilities
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Warehouse & Inventory Job Description
- Receives incoming materials, unloads, verifies correctness of received material against bill of lading invoices and checks for damaged parts, Inputs shipments into inventory
- Places parts into inventory bins and performs daily cycle counts
- Supervise warehouse Gate Checkers and Inventory Coordinators
- Communicate all significant inventory information to the Warehousing & Logistics Manager, Supervisors and other management to help facilitate shortage detection
- Direct Cycle Counting program and perform cycle counts
- Provide leadership and perform physical inventory counts during semi-annual physical inventory
- Review and process daily GSO (General Stores Order)
- Assist in any product recalls
- Facilitate excess inventory reduction by returning excess products to vendors
- Evaluate inventory levels, making adjustments to inventory min/max/reorder levels, safety stock, lead times, and inventory formulas to ensure sufficient supply to meet customers’ needs while maintaining targeted inventory turns
- Complete, and actively participate in all of the Company’s EHS training requirements
- Requires knowledge equivalent to four years of high school education
- Requires ability to read, write, add, subtract and familiarity with personal computers and window applications
- No previous experience up to 1 year required
- Six months on-the-job training
- 3+ or more years of warehouse supervision experience
Warehouse & Inventory Job Description
- Review and analyze all changes to product conversions, deletions and additions to determine impact on inventory requirements
- Identify and analyze product trends by supplier and by SKU
- Communicate all significant inventory information to the Warehousing & Logistics Manager and Supply Chain Management to help facilitate shortage detection
- Evaluate inventory levels, making adjustments to inventory min/max levels, safety stock, lead times, and inventory formulas to ensure sufficient supply to meet customers’ needs while maintaining targeted inventory turns
- Interface with and propose solutions to the Director of CSC Operations and Warehousing & Logistics Manager regarding all issues relating to inventory
- Assist in product recalls
- Provide warehouse product training to all new employees and perform follow up education with staff if miss picks become an issue
- Ensure warehouse storage areas are clean and organized, maintain office supply inventory
- Provide leadership and perform physical inventory counts during semi-annual inventory
- Review receiving process if inventory variances occur, instruct and train receiving on accurate techniques
- Certified forklift driver’s license
- Knowledge of safe work habits for warehouse employees to perform duties free from injuries
- Must be available to work weekends and on-call after-hours
- Ability to lift, carry, push, and drag up to 50 lbs
- Must be able to sit, stand, and bend for long periods of time exceeding 4 hours
- Accurately counts bulk merchandise in primary warehouse location
Warehouse & Inventory Job Description
- Partner with the key stakeholders, including Customer Service, Manufacturing, commercial teams (sales & service) and PSI, driving continuous improvement ensuring on-time
- Maintains key operational performance metrics, which are utilized to hold employees accountable for all day-to-day activities
- Develops and maintains all policies and procedures that are specific to plant warehousing
- Leads implementation of projects that lead to operational improvement goals and objectives
- Owns management of workforce capacity and material space requirements planning processes
- Lifting and sorting boxes up to 75 pounds
- Entering information into the computer system
- Ensure all HSEC and facility-related risks are identified and mitigated in a timely and efficient manner
- Internal/ external benchmarking activities to achieve continuous performance improvement (HSEC, QA, Cost, Schedule )
- Must understand and be able to explain (written and verbally) complex reporting to end users as part of inventory optimization
- Apply on-line to www.randstadstaffing.com
- Drive simplification projects via Lean and digitization in all warehouse/logistics activities
- High completion rate of daily/weekly/monthly projects handled
- Must be flexible in working hours – overtime, weekends, vacation coverage, and off-shifts
- Weekend and after-hours on-call support for unique Inventory Issues can be either scheduled or
- 4 - 6 years related functional experience, including Inventory Management in a Warehouse or Distribution center required
Warehouse & Inventory Job Description
- May require hazardous materials knowledge and certifications to handle and ship materials both onshore and offshore
- Direct impact on QA/QC at third party locations by ensuring a full understanding of housed materials, employee will need to be able to properly identify materials not fit for purposes in some cases
- Receive material, processe receipt cards, and verify quantities
- Maintain records of materials storage
- Take physical inventories on a regular basis and identifies shortages
- Locate, mark and prepare material for operator use
- Use of scan guns for picking orders
- Entering and verifying shipment information and documentation
- Assist in the unloading of trucks
- Various warehouse responsibilities as needed
- Hand held computers / scanner equipment experience needed
- Experience in operating various material handling equipment
- Standing, scanning frequently, walking for prolonged periods (8-12 hours)
- Ability to work at heights with appropriate safety equipment.\
- Must be able to lift, stack, push and pull boxes weighing from a few ounces to near 100 lbs
- Must have a minimum of two (2) years' experience in a warehouse environment
Warehouse & Inventory Job Description
- Delivering parts to other stores and customers using a box truck and full-sized van
- Inventory Management - noting and recording incoming and outgoing parts using specialized software
- Scanning and sorting palletized goods, breaking down pallets, building pallets for shipping
- Properly packing and recording outgoing shipments
- Overseeing all of the above and working to improve efficiency
- Oversees and manages all daily warehouse operations, facilities and equipment, ensuring a safe working environment
- Supervises and provides leadership to Inventory Coordinators and Warehouse Coordinators
- Adheres to and enforces company policies, procedures and guidelines
- Oversees, conducts and reconciles inventory cycle counts, including verification of material certifications on file as required
- Works with the Quality Assurance Department to ensure that materials and related documentation meet requirements to be maintained as inventory for use on future projects
- Be able to communicate effectively with co-workers and customers
- Have an energetic, outgoing, and friendly manner
- Take initiative, and work well with minimal supervision
- Knowledge of various stone slabs preferred
- Warehouse experience needed
- Shipping and Handling