Manufacturing Inventory Specialist
About The Position
The Inventory Control Specialist is a salaried, individual-contributor role at a manufacturing facility in Wolcott, Indiana. The position maintains accurate inventory records, ensures material availability, and resolves inventory issues that could affect production schedules. The role involves scheduled inventory counts, reliable inventory transactions, thorough documentation, and adherence to established controls. The specialist supports material readiness by identifying and escalating risks, helping implement corrective actions, and reducing recurring inventory problems. The work contributes to inventory accuracy, production continuity, and continuous improvement across the facility. The position includes regular plant-floor presence in both office and manufacturing/warehouse settings.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- At least two years of experience in inventory control, materials, warehouse, production control, or a related manufacturing environment.
- Experience performing inventory counts, researching discrepancies, and maintaining accurate inventory records.
- Working knowledge of ERP or inventory-management systems and inventory transactions such as receiving, transfers, material issues, backflush, scrap, returns, and shipping.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including data entry, sorting, filtering, and basic formulas.
- Ability to interpret bills of material, work orders, part numbers, units of measure, inventory reports, and transaction history.
- Strong attention to detail, analytical thinking, communication, and follow-through.
- Ability to work effectively with production, warehouse, and cross-functional support teams while escalating issues appropriately.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with manufacturing ERP/MRP systems and production-related inventory transactions.
- Experience supporting physical inventories, financial audits, or inventory reconciliations.
- Experience with Excel pivot tables and lookup functions.
- Familiarity with manufacturing bills of material, backflush processes, Lean Manufacturing, or Six Sigma.
- Experience supporting material-shortage resolution and production readiness.
Responsibilities
- Execute scheduled daily, weekly, and monthly cycle counts across raw materials, work in process, finished goods, line-side inventory, supermarkets, and warehouse locations.
- Research and resolve inventory discrepancies using ERP transactions, production records, bills of material, receiving, shipping, scrap, transfers, and material movement history.
- Validate physical counts and process approved inventory adjustments in accordance with financial controls.
- Monitor material availability and identify risks that could cause shortages, production delays, or schedule-attainment issues.
- Partner with Materials, Planning, Purchasing, Operations, Warehouse, Finance, Quality, and Engineering to resolve inventory and material-readiness concerns.
- Maintain accurate line-side inventory and support improvements to storage, labeling, staging, replenishment, and point-of-use controls.
- Investigate negative inventory, backflush errors, missed transactions, consumption variances, and recurring discrepancies.
- Identify obsolete, excess, slow-moving, damaged, or unidentified inventory and support approved disposition activities.
- Prepare reports on inventory accuracy, cycle-count completion, adjustments, variance trends, repeat discrepancies, material shortages, and corrective actions.
- Recommend practical improvements to inventory procedures, transaction discipline, visual controls, and material flow.
- Escalate complex, recurring, high-value, or production-critical issues to the Materials Manager.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
