Inventory Specialist

The candidate should have practical, hands-on experience in inventory, warehouse, materials, or distribution operations, with demonstrated ability in:

• Inventory Control

• Receiving, counting, organizing, and tracking inventory

• Maintaining accurate inventory quantities

• Performing cycle counts and investigating discrepancies

• Understanding the importance of inventory accuracy

• Identifying shortages, overages, damaged material, and inventory discrepancies

• Pick & Pack

• Experience picking material/products from inventory based on orders, work orders, or pick lists

• Packing and preparing material for shipment or delivery

• Verifying quantities and part numbers before material leaves inventory

• Ability to work accurately while maintaining reasonable productivity

• Returns / Material Coming Back from the Field

• Experience receiving products or materials back from customers, jobsites, technicians, drivers, or field personnel

• Inspecting returned material

• Determining whether material is reusable, damaged, incomplete, or requires further disposition

• Properly documenting returned material

• Return-to-Stock

• Experience putting returned or unused material back into inventory

• Verifying the correct item and quantity

• Returning material to the proper inventory location

• Updating the inventory system so physical inventory matches system inventory

• Materials Management Systems

• Functional experience using an inventory, warehouse, ERP, WMS, or materials-management system

• Ability to enter, retrieve, and update inventory information

• Comfortable learning a new inventory management system

• Understanding that physical inventory and system inventory must remain synchronized

• Spreadsheets / Computer Skills

• Basic-to-intermediate Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet experience

• Ability to enter, sort, filter, and organize data

• Comfortable working with inventory lists and reports

• Ability to identify discrepancies or unusual inventory information

Physical / Operational Requirements

Because this is a working inventory position, the candidate should be comfortable with:

• Working on their feet for extended periods
• Repeated walking, bending, reaching, lifting, and moving material
• Working in a warehouse/fabrication environment
• Safely handling a variety of materials
• Using pallet jacks, carts, forklifts, or similar material-handling equipment or be willing to learn
• Working in an environment where priorities can change throughout the day

The successful candidate needs to be:

• Detail-oriented
• Organized
• Reliable
• Accountable
• Comfortable working independently
• Able to follow established processes
• Able to recognize when something doesn''t look right
• Willing to ask questions rather than guess
• Comfortable working with numbers and quantities
• Able to prioritize competing requests
• Able to communicate effectively with warehouse, fabrication, purchasing, logistics, and field personnel
• Comfortable working in a sometimes fast-paced environment
• Able to stay focused when interrupted or priorities change