Inventory Control Associate

Company: Americold
Location: Hatfield
Posted on: November 18, 2023

Job Description:

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.

What You'll Do

Primary Responsibility: Assists in maintaining an accurate record of inventory. Assists in preventing and resolving inventory discrepancies. Essential Functions: • 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 inventories). Record count results and discrepancies. Communicate count results to Management and/or the Customer as needed. • Research and resolve inventory discrepancies including, but not limited to: researching customer claims, cycle count for missing product, 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 You Need

Qualifications & Experience: • High school diploma or general education degree (GED) plus one to three years' office experience or equivalent training and experience. • Experienced with AS/400 and Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel. • Forklift licenseKnowledge & Employment Standards: • Ability to work in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. • Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.Physical Requirements & Abilities: • Requires the ability to sit 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 up for business • May require a visit facility operations in temperatures at or below freezing • May carry loads related to travel and occasionally lifts, carries, positions, or moves objects weighing up to 20 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 managementAmericold is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.

What Could Set You Apart

• Forklift experience.

• Experience with AS 400.

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.

EOE/AA M/F/D/V DFW.

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