Job Details
Job Details
Level
Experienced
Job Location
Riverside, MO
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
High School
Travel Percentage
None
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Inventory
Inventory Coordinator
Marlen, headquartered in Riverside, MO is recognized as a global designer and manufacturer of highly engineered and innovative food processing equipment and systems. Our premium products have long set the standard for quality and performance in vacuum stuffing and pumping, portioning, size reduction, thermal processing, and food handling.
Marlen has been trusted by the world's leading food brands for 70 years. Our world-class Solution Centers strategically located across the globe allow processors to lean on our highly experienced food processing technologists to develop and test unique solutions for your products. Marlen is a Duravant Company, headquartered in Downers Grove, IL. Duravant is a global engineered equipment company with manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
This position description identifies the major responsibilities of this job. It does not include all aspects of the position such as the potential additional duties assigned by supervisors and the requirement for flexibility in helping others for the company's overall benefit.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Inventory Coordinator will work at Marlen's Riverside, Missouri offices. The Inventory Coordinator reports to the Production Manager and serves as a key member of the production team. In this position, you will be responsible for providing support to the overall Marlen operations process.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Prepare for daily cycle counts, determine items to be counted, print count sheets, ensure counters are following correct processes.
- Enter and post cycle counts into inventory records.
- Correct inventory records per cycle counts and investigate root cause of discrepancies.
- Suggest process changes/continuous improvement based on root cause analysis for warehouse, production, and purchasing operations.
- Work with Purchasing to ensure supplier RMA's are processed in a timely manner.
- Identify errors in quantity, location or part number and correct in the warehouse and within the system.
- Pull parts from a pick list for manufacturing jobs
- Maintain accurate and complete documentation for all inventory adjustments.
- Work with Accounting to reconcile inventory errors.
- Daily analysis and correction of negative on hand inventory quantities.
- Work with Production to reconcile missing inventory and backflush errors and make corrections to the system.
- Verify parts and counts for scheduling or production.
- Seek disposition of aged/obsolete inventory.
- Audit the movement of materials by system users.
- Assist with gathering data for inventory control reports.
- Assist with appropriate corrective actions.
- Create and maintain metric reports to track and measure inventory accuracy.
- Adhere to safety policy/procedures.
- Participate in additional special projects, duties and responsibilities as assigned.
QualificationsPOSITION SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES: - Analytical problem-solving skills
- Ability to document procedures in written and electronic form.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word)
- Ability to accurately count all types and sizes of inventory
- Comfortable with numbers and basic arithmetic
- Strong attention to detail
- Communication - comfortable communicating with multiple departments both written and verbal
- Familiarity with ERP and inventory management systems
POSITION REQUIREMENTS: - High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required
- Associates degree preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in inventory control/warehouse environment
- Minimum of 1 years' experience in ERP system
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate. The employee is frequently required to stand, sit, kneel, and squat. The employee Is frequently required to walk and reach with hands and arms and climb. Use hands and fingers to type, handle machinery parts, and the telephone. The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Must be able to stand for a minimum of 8 hours per day.
Pre-Employment Verifications: Must satisfactorily pass background check, post-offer drug screen, and physical prior to employment.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment includes manufacturing. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to high.
WHY YOU SHOULD APPLY: - Competitive wages with growth opportunity.
- Shared company-paid premium health benefits with buy-up options.
- Company-paid telemedicine (general medicine) program.
- Company paid Long-term Disability Plan and Basic Life and AD&D.
- 401(k) employer matching plan.
- Three weeks of paid leave and 10 paid holidays.
- Educational Assistance Program that pays for job-related tuition assistance, training, course registration and exam fees (up to $5,250 per calendar year per eligibility requirements).
- Company discount program for you and your family (e.g., concerts, sporting events, health and wellness, travel, gifts and more!).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that assists with guidance on childcare, financial planning, pet care and more.
- Driven Team Members: We have a cross-functional, collaborative environment, focused on delivering results.
- Customer-centric: We have long-standing valued customers and differentiate ourselves by providing them with exceptional services.
- Culture: We are driven by our number one asset our employees, and their successes!
Marlen International ("Marlen") maintains a drug-free workplace is an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and other characteristics protected by law. The "EEO is the Law" poster is available at: Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should contact the Marlen Human Resources Department. In addition to federal law requirements, Marlen complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the Company has facilities. Marlen participates in E-Verify.