Inventory Supervisor
On-siteJackson, Tennessee, United States
Job Summary
Supervise daily activities of inventory control staff, including job packet review, cycle counts, audits, damaged material management, and waste tracking. Evaluate inventory needs and implement strategies to maintain adequate material and product levels while driving continuous improvement initiatives. Direct staffing, training, and performance management to optimize the inventory function, ensuring financial reconciliation and integrity across work in process, finished goods, and aged inventories. Manage business relationships with suppliers and prepare required business reports. Primarily works in a production and/or warehouse setting with occasional travel and lifting up to 25 lbs.
Required Qualifications
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience
- Knowledge of and ability to use and influence organization's policies, standards and procedures guiding manufacturing processes
- Knowledge of strategies and tools for controlling and optimizing the factors that lie between the purchase of raw materials and delivery of finished products
- Ability to effectively manage the business relationship and transactions with the suppliers of raw materials or product components
- Knowledge of issues and considerations for effectively managing local or distributed inventories of raw materials, work in progress and finished goods
- Knowledge of the processes, tools and operational considerations for effective and efficient movement of goods and materials throughout the manufacturing cycle
- Knowledge of the day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility
- Frequent walking and standing
- Occasional travel
- Occasional lifting up to 25 lbs.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree preferred
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