Inventory Control Team Leader

Job Description Summary

The Inventory Control Team Leader is responsible for facilitating the activities of the Inventory Control team by balancing operational, strategic, and administrative needs in order to meet the Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery objectives of the unit. You will also guide the Inventory team to ensure production needs are met.

As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for engaging employees in inventory, coordinating activities in expediting the flow of material, parts, and assemblies between areas of production.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Be the main point of contact for Production and Inventory for All C  and ITR production lines
• Be responsible for point of use (POU) Material replenishment aligned with Water Spiders and Uncrating team for C  and ITR (All Kits - Elec, Mech, Inter, Inductive, Cabinets, Mechanism, Bushings, Center Conductors, CT’s, all 2 Bin parts for C  and ITR, Galvanizing, Active parts)
• Be responsible for Production disturbance (eAndon) for inventory and coordinate to resolve at earliest
• Be responsible for working with Kitting and material replenishment team to meet daily goals in alignment with production needs including material transactions
• Be responsible for printing and organizing Kitting Picklist in SAP for all kitted materials
• Be responsible for receiving incoming material with 100% count and SAP GR, Putaway at correct location, physically and in SAP
• Coordinate Problem PO/delivery confirmations with purchasing team
• Be responsible for Material Request Forms are completed according to demand required
• Be responsible to address and part issues from production
• Be responsible to communicate work order changes to inventory personnel
• Attend production meeting, end of the shift meeting, Genba walk as needed to align inventory with production needs
• Ensure all direct labor timesheets are completed
• Training for inventory team members for inventory processes

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma / GED with a minimum of 3 years of experience in Logistics, Manufacturing, Warehouse, or Inventory Control
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with SAP

Desired Characteristics

• Ability to operate forklifts:
  Propane, Stand‑ups and Bendi’s
• Ability to look‑up on‑hand quantities, location, Generate Pick Lists, Cycle Counts, creating transfer requests, physical inventory counts, creating and deleting transfer orders
• Ability to use or learn the use of barcode Scanners
• Computer Skills (Proficient in Excel, Experience with Word and Outlook, SMART Sheet, BOX)
• Moderate understanding of how to pull a drawing and understand the revision level and what the part looks like to be able to identify it in the warehouse or lot
• Previous Team Lead experience is preferred
• Understanding of Lean manufacturing and Kaizen/improvement experience