What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inventory Control I - Columbus, NE position at Archer Daniels Midland?
Inventory Control I - Columbus, NE
Summary:
The Inventory Control Specialist is responsible for ensuring inventory accuracy, availability, and optimization within a high-volume MRO warehouse. This role plays a critical part in managing spare parts, consumables, and maintenance materials, while also supporting vendor partnerships through Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and consignment programs.
Specific Job Duties
REF:110956BR
Summary:
The Inventory Control Specialist is responsible for ensuring inventory accuracy, availability, and optimization within a high-volume MRO warehouse. This role plays a critical part in managing spare parts, consumables, and maintenance materials, while also supporting vendor partnerships through Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and consignment programs.
Specific Job Duties
- Interact professionally, effectively, and courteously with all individuals.
- Analyze usage trends, lead times, and demand variability to improve stocking strategies.
- Identify and manage excess, obsolete, and slow-moving inventory
- Assists in assigning storage locations, and enters such information into the database.
- Operates all material handling equipment such as scales, hand jacks, carts, forklifts and equipment used for measuring and counting.
- Maintain accurate inventory records through cycle counts, audits, and real-time system updates
- Return unneeded parts to inventory, and update the database accordingly.
- Maintain tools and records in vending equipment and data base.
- Write Work orders for facility and warehouse equipment repairs.
- Assist customers in identifying, locating, and obtaining needed parts by searching the inventory database or physically searching parts storage areas.
- Checks quantities, identification and condition of materials received, and enter such information into our database.
- Receives shipments of hazardous chemicals and places in appropriate storage locations. Maintains responsibility for the pick-up and documentation of empty chemical containers.
- Serve as primary point of contact for incoming parts, materials, chemicals, and ingredients from common carriers, vendors, UPS, etc.
- Unload trucks carrying items ranging from small parcels to pipe, motors, and large machinery.
- Ensure that any Direct Issue items are marked appropriately, and that any inventoried items issued from Receiving are properly charged to a Work Order.
- Ensure that motors and gear boxes get rotated.
- Prepare Bills of Lading and other shipping documents using MSR’s, UPS, Excel, and other forms and software.
- Deliver all chemicals, lab supplies, and other items as requested by process.
- May perform reasonably similar or related duties needed to assist with task completion.
- Assists in keeping all warehouse facilities in tour ready condition.
- High school diploma or equivalent required
- Must successfully complete all ADM Safety Certification requirements.
- High level of motivation and results-oriented way of working.
- Good regular and prompt attendance history
- Excellent safety record and awareness
- Previous plant/warehouse, inventory control, and forklift experience
- Good organizational and communication skills, and must be self-motivated
- Ability to work well with others and with little supervision
- Ability to team build, train, and work on multiple tasks concurrently
- Willingness to assume and learn new responsibilities
- Housekeeping and sanitation skills (MSS)
- Willingness to work overtime when necessary
- Attention to detail and accurate record keeping skills
- Working with various chemicals and potentially hazardous materials
- Indoor and outdoor tasks
- Climbing stairs frequently
- Lifting
- Could be asked to perform rotating Shift Work
- Operation of material handling equipment as needed
REF:110956BR