Essential Duties:
- Implement inventory control systems and practices, and to optimize inventory control procedures.
- Tracks receipt, transfer or packing of items by lot or serial number, pallet, location or date and notes where the stock resides in the warehouse.
- Produce comprehensive reports on inventory operations, stock levels, and adjustments.
- Evaluate your existing inventory solution and identify places for improvement and like-to-have features.
- Responsible for physical and cycle counts, audits inventory and generates reports.
- Warns about low stock, expiring items and overstocked items and reorders stock to maintain proper inventory.
- Manages new inventory receipts, returns and processes for transfers
- Establishes priorities, allocates resources, and supervises the mobilization of the inventory and warehouse team to ensure adequate coverage
- Keep record of daily deliveries and shipments to reconcile inventory
- Use current resources to improve warehouse layout and storage of stock.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements:
- To ensure the health and safety in the workplace and for the protection of our employees, wearing PPE is a requirement for some roles at PENA and may include equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, bump cap, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator.
Qualifications: Requirements - Required and/or Preferred
Education:
- Basic/Required: Bachelor’s/master’s degree in business, systems engineering, supply chain management or similar
Essential Qualifications:
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in similar role
- Experience working with inventory management software and forecasting strategies
- Experience conducting tracking and data analysis
- Product and inventory certification such as Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) credential
- Communication Skills: Inventory manager will need to speak with managers on a regular basis to assess changes in needs, as well as reporting to ops manager with additional requirements.
- Critical-Thinking Skills: Inventory manager will need to devise plans of action and asses those plans regularly; must be able to work independently.
- Organizational Skills: Multiple orders, people, and many moving pieces will require organizational skills, as well as great attention to detail
- Problem-Solving Skills: Inventory manager will need to be ready when problems arise or be ready to anticipate problems before they happen
- Detail-oriented: The inventory manager is accountable for maintaining the appropriate stock levels for a business’s customers and employees.
- Leadership Skills: to manage people and resolve conflicts while maintaining a positive work environment
- Strong analytical skills: able to analyze and generate required date for reporting and business information
- Physical skills: Be able to lift at least 50 pounds regularly. Inventory manager must be comfortable loading and unloading supplies from vehicle
Physical Demands:
Physical Activities: (Percentage of time (equaling 100%) during the normal workday the employee is required to)
- Sit: 40%
- Walk: 30%
- Stand: 20%
- Lift: 10%
Required Lifting and Carrying: (Required frequency is: Not required (0%), Occasional (1-33%), Frequent (34-66%), Continuous (67-100%)
- Up to 10 lbs.: Occasional
- Up to 20 lbs.: Occasional
- Up to 35 lbs.: Frequent
- Team-lift only (over 35 lbs.): Frequent
