Inventory Clerk
AerotekJob Title: Inventory Coordinator (Warehouse & Food Manufacturing)Job Description
The Inventory Coordinator plays a key role in ensuring accurate, real-time inventory control across raw materials, packaging, work-in-progress, and finished goods within a high-volume food manufacturing environment. This position conducts scheduled counts, investigates and resolves inventory variances using SAP and a
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warehouse management system, and stages materials for production while maintaining strict compliance with GMP, HACCP, SQF, and allergen control standards. The role combines hands-on warehouse work, including safe forklift operation, with detailed data entry and cross-functional communication to support production, quality, and finance teams.
Responsibilities
• Conduct scheduled inventory counts of raw ingredients, packaging materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods in ambient, cooler, and freezer storage areas.
• Prepare cycle count sheets, perform cycle counts, and reconcile discrepancies between physical stock and system records.
• Use SAP and the warehouse management system (WMS) to investigate inventory variances, trace lot movements, and correct transactional errors at the root cause.
• Complete daily inventory transactions, including receipts, transfers, goods issues, adjustments, and location moves, accurately and on time to maintain real-time system accuracy.
• Review production schedules to assess inventory requirements by lot number and quantity for upcoming production runs.
• Stage the correct ingredient and packaging lots and quantities for production consumption, following FIFO/FEFO rotation and lot traceability requirements.
• Safely operate an electric counterbalance forklift to move, put away, and retrieve pallets between receiving, storage, staging, and production areas.
• Communicate variance findings and inventory issues to Production, Warehouse, Purchasing, Quality Assurance, and Finance, and follow up until discrepancies are resolved.
• Identify and segregate damaged, expired, on-hold, or non-conforming product, and support QA holds, releases, traceability exercises, and mock recalls.
• Maintain clean, organized, and clearly labeled storage locations in line with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), HACCP, SQF, and sanitation standards.
• Support month-end and year-end inventory counts and participate in other related inventory and warehouse duties as assigned.
Essential Skills
• 13 years of warehouse experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Hands-on experience with inventory control, inventory tracking, and inventory management processes.
• Experience performing cycle counts and reconciling inventory discrepancies.
• Proficiency with SAP or similar ERP systems for inventory transactions and reporting.
• Experience using warehouse management systems (WMS) for inventory tracking and location management.
• Experience in shipping and receiving and warehouse inventory operations.
• Ability to safely operate an electric counterbalance forklift or similar material handling equipment.
• Strong material handling skills, including moving, staging, and storing pallets and materials.
• Accurate data entry skills and attention to detail for maintaining real-time inventory records.
• Familiarity working in a GMP environment and adherence to food safety and sanitation standards.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in Production, Warehouse, Purchasing, Quality Assurance, and Finance.
• Capability to work in varying temperatures, including freezers, coolers, and warm production areas, and in tight, enclosed, damp, wet, or dusty spaces.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
• Previous experience in a GMP-regulated food manufacturing environment (highly preferred).
• Valid forklift operator certification (preferred, not mandatory).
• Familiarity with HACCP, SQF, allergen control, lot traceability, and FIFO/FEFO rotation practices.
• WHMIS training or equivalent safety and hazardous materials handling tr