What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inventory Specialist position at Ryan Fireprotection, Inc.?
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 amp; 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