Inventory Specialist

Tealenergi•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Inventory Specialist manages the Client’s inventory across multiple owned and third-party laydown yards, ensuring materials and equipment are accurately tracked, properly maintained, and available for offshore drilling, production, and completions activities. The role works with Procurement, Accounting, field operations, vendors, yard personnel, and other stakeholders to coordinate material movement, maintain inventory accuracy, support quality inspections, and improve inventory processes. The position oversees inventory transactions, stock levels, physical counts, reconciliation, audits, material classification, and transaction documentation. It coordinates deliveries and transfers, facilitates quality inspections, oversees rig-return inspections and returned-material disposition, supports maintenance reviews, and coordinates surplus sales. The Inventory Specialist also prepares inventory reports, resolves issues with internal and external partners, and supports cost reduction and process improvement in a complex, schedule-driven operating environment. The standard schedule is 40 hours per week. Work may take place in an office, storage facilities, and laydown yards, with regular coordination across multiple locations and with internal departments and external partners. Teal Energi is a technical manpower provider supporting major capital projects across traditional energy, energy transition, and other sectors. The company states its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and says all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to protected characteristics.

Requirements

At least four years of experience in an Inventory Specialist or comparable materials-management role within the oil and gas industry.
Strong understanding of inventory controls, physical counts, reconciliation, material movement, and transaction documentation.
Working knowledge of materials used in offshore drilling, production, and completions.
Strong working knowledge of enterprise resource planning and inventory-management systems.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Demonstrated ability to support cost-reduction and process-improvement initiatives.
Strong relationship-building skills with internal stakeholders and external business partners.
Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and reporting skills.
Strong organizational and prioritization skills, including the ability to manage a high-volume workload.
Ability to perform effectively in a complex, schedule-driven environment.
High degree of integrity and sound judgment when handling ethical or sensitive situations.
Proactive approach to professional development and continuous improvement.
Meet the stated physical requirements, including frequently lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds and occasionally lifting and/or moving up to 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience supporting inventory activities across multiple locations or laydown yards.
Experience with offshore drilling, production, or completions materials.
SAP experience.

Responsibilities

Manage inventory operations in accordance with Client policies, procedures, and operational objectives.
Use inventory-management and enterprise resource planning systems to record and monitor inventory transactions accurately.
Maintain appropriate inventory levels across owned and third-party storage locations and classify inventory by condition, availability, and operational requirements.
Maintain inventory controls for physical counts, reconciliation, material movement, and transaction documentation.
Conduct annual physical inventory audits across multiple yard locations; identify discrepancies and coordinate reconciliation and corrective action.
Coordinate deliveries of equipment and materials to storage yards and operational locations.
Transfer materials and equipment according to operational requirements and document each transaction in the inventory system.
Coordinate with Accounting to maintain accurate material-transfer documentation.
Partner with Procurement to support inventory availability while maintaining the lowest practical total cost of ownership.
Facilitate quality inspections of materials before shipment to field operations.
Maintain working knowledge of materials used in offshore drilling, production, and completions activities.
Oversee inventory activities across multiple laydown yards and promote safe, efficient, organized, and accurate yard operations.
Coordinate inventory activities at Client-owned and third-party facilities; support effective storage, preservation, identification, and movement of materials.
Oversee rig-return inspections and coordinate appropriate disposition of returned materials.
Support annual maintenance reviews for stored equipment and materials.
Coordinate surplus material sales and associated inventory documentation.
Identify inventory-process gaps and implement improvements that increase efficiency and accuracy.
Support cost-reduction initiatives related to inventory, storage, material movement, and surplus disposition.
Evaluate inventory practices and recommend ways to reduce waste, avoid unnecessary purchases, and improve material utilization.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to resolve inventory issues and improve service delivery.
Prepare and deliver inventory reports to management and internal stakeholders, including timely information on levels, movements, audit results, and outstanding issues.
Develop productive working relationships with field operations, Procurement, Accounting, yard personnel, vendors, and other business partners.
Manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a complex, schedule-driven operating environment.
Perform other duties as assigned based on operational and business requirements.