Inventory Clerk

Job Title: Inventory Clerk

Department: General Maintenance

Reports to: Maintenance Manager

Substitute: Inventory Clerk

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

 

Summary: Maintains parts inventory for maintenance department by performing the following duties.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

 

* Counts material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies in stock and posts totals to inventory records.

* Compares inventories to office records or computes figures from records such as sales orders, production records, or purchase invoices to obtain current inventory.

* Verifies clerical computations against physical count of stock and adjusts errors in computation or count, or investigates and reports reasons for discrepancies.

* Compiles information on receipt or disbursement of material, equipment, merchandise, or supplies, and computes inventory balance.

* Prepares reports such as inventory balance, price lists, and shortages.

* Prepares list of depleted items and recommends survey of defective or unusable items.

* Stocks and issues materials or merchandise.

* Operates forklifts, scissor lifts, and company van.

* Communicates regularly via telephone, email, fax, in person, postal mail, etc. with suppliers, shippers, and personnel of Verifies nomenclature and specifications of purchase requests.

* Searches inventory records to determine if material on hand is in sufficient quantity.

* Consults catalogs and suppliers to obtain prices and specifications and recommends supplier to utilize.

* Compiles records of items purchased or transferred between departments, prices, and deliveries.

* Compares prices, specifications, and delivery dates and places orders with suppliers.

* Assigns accurate information to required fields of purchasing and inventory records.

* Performs other parts transactions as directed.

* Serves as the contact person and coordinator for parts running.

* Maintains cleanliness of general maintenance parts room (sweeps and mops shop floors, removes large quantities of trash).

* Adheres to and enforces safety, food safety, quality and Good Manufacturing Practices regulations.

* Reports safety, food safety, and quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action.

 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

 

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

Education and/or Experience:

* High School Diploma or GED; or

* One to three months’ related experience and/or training; or

* Equivalent combination of education and experience.

 

Language Skills:

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization.

 

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

 

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

 

Computer Skills:

* Basic computer skills, including a basic ability to use Microsoft Office software.

* Ability to quickly learn to use the department’s asset management software (EAM).

 

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

 

Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

 

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and color vision.

 

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer