Inventory Control Clerk

Position Summary: The Inventory Control Clerk ensures inventory accuracy, control, and traceability for raw materials, bulk compounds, packaging, and finished goods across warehouse operations. This role supports production, receiving, and quality activities by executing accurate system transactions, conducting inventory counts, transferring and staging materials, maintaining identification and status labeling, and ensuring materials are audit-ready and compliant with SOPs, cGMP, and regulatory requirements.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Follows all SOPs, with particular emphasis on procedures related to releasing raw materials and finished goods.
• Gains familiarity and expertise with the automated warehouse inventory control system (AWS) to execute accurate inventory transactions.
• Conducts inventory counts (cycle counts and as-needed counts) to support inventory accuracy targets (greater than or equal to 99.5%).
• Investigates inventory discrepancies between system records and physical counts and coordinates with Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance to resolve variances and maintain data integrity.
• Informs the Master Production Scheduler of raw material shortages or discrepancies between AWS and physical inventory.
• Monitors identification labeling of all materials in the warehouse and generates new ID labels when necessary.
• Maintains organization, segregation, and control of released, quarantined, rejected, and disposition-pending materials to ensure inspection and audit readiness.
• Provides backup support for receiving operations, including verification of inbound shipments for accuracy, damage, and compliance.
• Provides backup support for the Inventory Disposition Request (IDR) process during planned or unplanned absences of the primary owner.
• Safely, operate P.I.T equipment moving raw materials, bulk, and finished goods when necessary.
• Ability to be flexible with work schedules. Weekends are required
• Able to maintain professionalism at a high level under stress and strict deadlines
• Will oversee the daily duties of the receiving department and will help minimize errors when receiving material into Deacom.
• Other duties may be assigned
  
  
  

Qualifications

Essential Skills and Qualifications:

• Strong oral and written communication skills in English.
• Intermediate mathematical skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Ability to follow instructions accurately and efficiently.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team with minimum supervision.
• High school diploma or GED or 2–4 years of related warehouse, inventory, or manufacturing experience required.
• Proven ability to multitask and meet strict deadlines given by Sr. Leadership
• Capable of pulling various inventory reports and reconciling inventory in a timely manner
  
  
  

Preferred Skills And Qualifications

• Basic knowledge of purchase orders and sales orders
• Ability to create sales orders against purchase orders in Deacom
• Ability to pass a basic English comprehension test (5th-grade level).
• Forklift operator certification (training may be provided if not already certified).
• Familiarity with inventory systems or warehouse management software.
• Experience working in a cGMP or regulated manufacturing environment.
• Basic knowledge of chemical safety
• 1-3 years of experience using Excel, word processing, google doc etc.
• 1-2 years of experience using Deacom
  
  
  

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to walk and occasionally required to stand.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.