Inventory Control Specialist

Overview

The Inventory Control Specialist is responsible for maintaining accurate, compliant, and efficient control of raw materials and finished goods in a high-volume manufacturing environment. This role owns inventory integrity and traceability across ERP and shop floor systems, executing cycle counts, investigating variances, managing heat/lot and Country of Origin requirements, and ensuring materials are properly received, located, and issued to support uninterrupted production.

Partnering closely with Supply Chain, Buyer/Planners, and Operations, the specialist uses data analysis and continuous improvement methods to anticipate shortages, optimize inventory levels and warehouse layout, reduce scrap and aging stock, and strengthen material flow and visibility. This position serves as a key subject matter expert for inventory accuracy, compliance, and process improvement across the facility.

• Perform inventory cycle counts regularly. Have cycle count signed off on for first 6 months to eliminate possibility of inaccurate information. Ensuring material is inventoried correctly with corresponding Victaulic part code. Maintain 98–100% inventory accuracy through cycle counts, reconciliations, and root‑cause analysis of variances.
• Investigate inaccuracies in BPCS/AS400 when material amount became inaccurate and identify the shop order causing the discrepancies. Keep historical data records of material inaccuracies to determine which material has regularly been inaccurate.
• Regularly organize inventory into defined locations and notify the Supply Chain & Logistics Manager when a more strategically sound location is determined. Keep a shared Excel file of locations.
• Inspect incoming material for quality and damage and ensure correct material is delivered and received into appropriate inventory locations through internal inventory locator system, BPCS, and Mendix software systems.
• Optimize warehouse layout, storage methods, and material flow to reduce travel time and improve throughput. Report professional insights to the Supply Chain Manager through research and data analysis. Participate in 5S events when pertaining to inventory.
• Highly experienced in stainless and carbon steel raw materials and finished goods. General understanding of differences in grades, schedules and global vs AIS material.
• Analyze work center hour usage to develop an in‑depth work center by work center daily schedule (e.g., weld material on ___ date, paint material on ___ date, etc.).
• Manage the development of an internal inventory tracking system to record inventory stock levels of delivered materials by way of Excel tables and pivot tables (arrival of PO’s).
• Assist material handlers to properly receive material, ensuring correct heat number and country of origin (COO) is entered into inventory and then assigned to allocatable locations.
• Monitor raw steel, plate, bar, pipe, and finished product stocks; ensure correct heat/lot traceability.
• Manage Country of Origin (COO) for materials and work with material handlers to ensure proper COO is marked on material consistently.
• Assist Buyer/Planners by analyzing daily product and supply level requirements to anticipate inventory shortages or compliance issues (global being used for AIS) for upcoming shop orders. Perform the analysis on a daily or semi‑weekly basis to allow the buyer/planner team to investigate material PO’s or order for upcoming jobs. Analyze demand patterns, consumption trends, and production run rates to forecast inventory needs.
• Analyze facility needs for inventory min/max. Regularly analyze.
• Function as a “go‑to” subject matter expert for on‑site inventory locations of materials. Keep an accurate and professional record of material and their corresponding locations by way of BPCS locator system and Victaulic part codes in a shared Excel file.
• Issue material into the BPCS ERP system after shop order completion. Maintain historical data by way of shared Excel file to log over‑usage by operator, material, shop order, and date of over‑usage.
• Manage scrap in Mendix shop floor control system; maintain and analyze historical data for scrap.
• Verify material…