Inventory Manager

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Responsibilities include management oversight of inventory, workload scheduling, policies/procedures management, providing inventory staffing assistance, performing title disposition work as required by local states, performing inventory work as necessary and installing quality and safety consciousness among all inventory employees.
Essential Job Duties

• Oversee overall inventory assignments to ensure quality control and maximum productivity of employees complying with inventory and production requirements.
• Plan inventory operations, establishing priorities and sequences for accurately inventorying products.
• Review inventory demand to ascertain proper product data such as types, quantities, and specifications of products to ensure that facility inventory is as accurate as possible at all times.
• Review inventory reports to determine resolutions for any items in suspense.
• Encourage employee suggestions, develop safety awareness among employees, and enforce all applicable safety regulations and Company practices and procedures.
• Perform inventory audits as required by Company practices and procedures.
• Perform a monthly inventory of department supplies.
• Perform inventory work as necessary.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Manage the work of others, including planning, assigning, scheduling, and reviewing work, ensuring quality standards. Responsible for hiring, terminating, training and developing, reviewing performance and administering corrective action for staff.

Minimum Requirements

Education & Experience

• High School Diploma/GED.
• 5 years+ in specialized profession or equivalent; Proficient in specialty including prior senior lead / supervisor experience; Degree or equivalent work experience to include:
• 3+ years inventory experience, and
• 2+ years warehouse-related experience, supplemented by on-the-job training to learn associated duties and the nature of work performed, as well as procedures and work methods to become familiar with the company's products, locations, machines, equipment, operating methods, and proficiency requirements necessary to fully assume the responsibilities of the job.

Preferred Requirements

• Forklift certification is beneficial.
• Bilingual Spanish.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Frequent use of Outlook, Word, Excel, graphics, etc. Ability to create, maintain, and incorporate functions into Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, databases, and PowerPoint presentations to support business objectives.
• Frequently communicates complex information across departments and interacts with management. Can present, resolve, and address delicate situations. Can motivate and persuade others.
• Problems are varied and complex, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation. Problems are solved using knowledge and skills, general precedents, and practices.
• Decisions generally affect own job or assigned functional area.
• Results are defined; sets personal own goals and determines how to achieve results with few or no guidelines to follow; supervisor/manager provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Handle multiple tasks or projects simultaneously with moderate complexity.

Essential Physical Demands/Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, push, pull, squat, bend, reach, climb stairs, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or sit for extended periods of time.
• The employee may be exposed to hazardous situations, conditions, and equipment. Must be able to work in cramped spaces or underneath vehicles that may require getting into awkward positions. May regularly wear personal protective equipment (PPE). May be exposed to extreme temperatures and high noise levels.
• Travel may be required periodically, including overnight stays (contingent on position requirements).
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.

Benefits:

• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Fertility Coverage
• 401k with Generous Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability
• Short-Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts

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