Inventory Control Specialist

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Rochester, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Position Summary
The Maintenance Storeroom is responsible for maintaining accurate control of maintenance inventory and supporting the timely procurement of indirect materials and services required for site operations. This role ensures that MRO spare parts, maintenance consumables, and assigned indirect materials are accurately received, stored, transacted, documented, and available to support maintenance execution in a manufacturing environment. The position combines inventory accuracy, transaction control, traceability, discrepancy resolution, purchasing coordination, and reporting to improve material availability and strengthen operating discipline.

Role Scope
This role supports day-to-day maintenance storeroom control and supports routine indirect purchasing activities tied to maintenance and site operations. Core scope includes:
Maintenance spare parts and MRO inventory control
Physical-to-system inventory accuracy
Storeroom transaction discipline
Work-order-related material support
Purchase requisition and purchase order support for assigned indirect materials and services
Coordination of receipt, invoice, and order discrepancies
Documentation, traceability, and audit-readiness support

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• 3+ years of experience in inventory control, storeroom operations, purchasing support, materials coordination, or related work in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Experience using ERP, MRP, or inventory systems for transaction processing and record control
• Strong Excel skills, including filtering, sorting, and pivot tables
• Strong attention to detail, documentation discipline, and problem-solving ability
• Ability to work cross-functionally with maintenance, warehouse, finance, quality, and suppliers

Nice To Haves

• Associate's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Industrial Technology, or a related field preferred
• Experience in a maintenance storeroom, MRO environment, or GMP-regulated manufacturing operation
• Experience supporting indirect purchasing, maintenance services coordination, or non-direct material replenishment
• Familiarity with cycle counting, physical inventory, inventory adjustment control, and audit support
• Understanding of work-order-related material movement and spare-parts control
• Exposure to continuous improvement or root cause problem-solving methods

Responsibilities

• Execute cycle counts, inventory verification, and annual physical inventory activities while investigating and resolving discrepancies between physical inventory and ERP records
• Process and validate all inventory transactions including receipts, issues, transfers, returns, and adjustments to maintain high inventory accuracy
• Maintain organized stock locations, labeling, and storage practices that support accuracy, traceability, and efficient retrieval
• Ensure spare parts, consumables, and assigned indirect materials are available for planned and reactive maintenance work through accurate issue, return, staging, and reconciliation of materials
• Partner with maintenance and operations teams to resolve location errors, stock discrepancies, and part-availability issues
• Create and manage purchase requisitions for assigned indirect materials, MRO items, consumables, tools, and maintenance-related services while coordinating with stakeholders on specifications, quantities, and delivery requirements
• Partner with procurement specialists, Receiving, and Finance to manage supplier relationships, order confirmation, delivery status, and resolve receipt, invoice, and order discrepancies
• Follow approved procedures for material handling and transaction entry while maintaining accurate inventory system records and transaction-support documentation to ensure audit readiness and compliance
• Generate reports on cycle count performance, inventory accuracy, adjustment trends, aging inventory, and purchasing activity to support operational decision-making
• Support root cause analysis and identify opportunities to improve storeroom organization, transaction discipline, replenishment visibility, and purchasing workflow efficiency

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees