Automated Inventory Control Associate (Finance)
Primary Responsibility:
Plays a vital role in maintaining an accurate record of inventory in an automated facility.
Assists in preventing, researching, and resolving inventory discrepancies as well as analyzing data trends to identify areas for improvement and making corrective action suggestions.
What You'll Do:
- Promote a safe work environment through personal actions. Identify and report on any safety concerns.
- Conduct regular inventory counts (i.e., cycle counts and full physical inventory).
- Record count results and discrepancies. Communicate count results to Management and/or the Customer as needed.
- Research and resolve inventory discrepancies across 3 Warehouse Management Systems in an automated facility including, but not limited to researching customer claims, cycle count for missing products, adjust inventory quantities, print labels, handle damaged inventory, disposing of inventory.
- Update inventory and inventory discrepancies in the Warehouse Management System including processing adjustments.
- Assist with special projects, handling customer specific requests.
- Report on operational errors impacting inventory performance
- Other inventory related duties as requested.
What Experience and Education Do You Need:
- Must have High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Required One to three years of automated inventory control and warehouse experience or equivalent training and experience.
- Preferred Experienced with multiple WMS systems and Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel.
Ability to act autonomously as needed
What Could Set You Apart:
- Ability to work in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
Physical Requirements:
- Requires the ability to sit or stand for long periods of time, with frequent interruptions.
- Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, and reaching, or bending.
- Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work.
- Talking, hearing, and seeing are important elements of completing assigned tasks.
- May require travel by automobile and airplane for business.
- Facility operations temperatures between 38 degrees and -20 degrees.
- May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 55 pounds.
- Requires the use of various electronic tools.
- Requires the ability to relate to others beyond giving and receiving instructions: must partner with colleagues without exhibiting behavioral extremes.
- Requires the performance of work activities including reasoning, negotiating, instructing, persuading, or speaking with others; and respond appropriately to constructive feedback from executive management
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What We Offer:
Our associates know the answer to the question What's in it for me We offer best-in-class benefit programs and continuously work with our associates to ensure that our offerings meet the needs of their health and financial well-being. When you join Americold you join a values-oriented company with a clear mission. We help our customers feed the world.
Americold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and complies with applicable employment laws.
EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.
ABOUT US
Americold is a global provider of temperature-controlled infrastructure. We partner with farmers and food producers to ensure their perishable and frozen product reaches foods suppliers, restaurants, and your local grocery store without spoilage. Our customers, which include some of the most respected brands in the food industry, rely on our expertise and commitment to safety in order to deliver on their commitments.
