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Inventory & Workflow Manager
RETAIL FIRST INC
Elgin, USA
Full-time
Mid · 3+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
Global Shop Solutions ERPMicrosoft Excel
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Global Shop Solutions ERPMicrosoft Excel
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- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Maintain a visible, hands-on presence on the production floor.
- Supervise employees and assign daily work.
- Confirm employees report on time and clock in and out correctly.
- Monitor attendance, breaks, productivity, and completion of assignments.
- Address attendance, performance, and workplace-conduct issues according to company policy.
- Ensure employees remain productive and follow established priorities.
- Communicate instructions clearly to English- and Spanish-speaking employees.
- Maintain accurate inventory quantities, locations, and ERP transactions.
- Perform cycle counts and investigate inventory discrepancies.
- Create, review, track, and close manufacturing work orders.
- Review BOMs and confirm the correct materials are available for production.
- Stage and issue materials to work orders.
- Monitor work in process and identify shortages, delays, or bottlenecks.
- Work with Finance and Accounting to reconcile inventory and production records.
- Investigate discrepancies involving labor hours, material usage, scrap, inventory, work orders, and job costs.
- Compare ERP records with actual production-floor activity and physical inventory.
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete ERP transactions and help prevent recurring errors.
- Review open work orders and ensure materials, labor, quantities, and completion information are reported correctly.
- Assist Finance with month-end inventory reconciliation and work-in-process reporting.
- Identify the causes of cost variances and recommend corrective actions.
- Coordinate with production, purchasing, engineering, shipping, finance, and management.
- Enforce safety, housekeeping, quality, and company procedures.
- Train employees on inventory, timekeeping, workflow, and ERP procedures.
- Report attendance, inventory, workflow, financial, and employee-performance concerns to management.
- Inventory-control, production-control, or manufacturing experience.
- Previous supervisory or team-lead experience.
- Experience managing employee attendance, productivity, and daily assignments.
- Knowledge of BOMs, work orders, inventory transactions, and job costing.
- Ability to analyze data and identify production-floor discrepancies.
- Experience working with Finance or Accounting to reconcile inventory, labor, and job costs.
- Experience using an ERP or manufacturing-management system.
- Global Shop Solutions ERP experience preferred.
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish preferred.
- Strong leadership, organization, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to spend most of the shift walking and working on the production floor.
- Ability to hold employees accountable professionally and consistently.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and standard office applications.
- Three or more years of inventory, production-control, or manufacturing experience.
- Experience supervising production employees.
- Experience with cycle counting, material staging, inventory reconciliation, and workflow coordination.
- Experience maintaining item records, BOMs, routings, and work orders.
- Familiarity with job costing, cost variances, month-end inventory reconciliation, and work-in-process reporting.
- Familiarity with production scheduling and continuous improvement.
About RETAIL FIRST INC
Retail Technology31 employeesFounded 2010
Designs and manufactures custom retail and merchandising display solutions.
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