Warehouse Inventory Lead
Gasser ChairAbout Us Gasser Chair is a distinguished leader in the design and manufacturing of premium seating solutions, proudly trusted by some of the world's most iconic brands, including Wynn, Caesars, Ritz-Carlton, and Hilton. Founded in 1946, we are a third-generation, family-owned company with a rich history of quality, innovation, and customer focus. To learn more about our company and products, visit www.gasserchair.com. Position Summary The Warehouse & Inventory Lead is responsible for maintaining an organized, accurate, and controlled raw-material and purchased-parts warehouse. The position serves as the primary day-to-day owner of warehouse organization and inventory integrity, ensuring materials are properly identified, stored, located, counted, staged, and transacted within the company ERP system. This is a hands-on lead position with functional authority to reinforce established warehouse and inventory-control practices. The role investigates inventory discrepancies to root cause, reports findings, and obtains appropriate approval before inventory corrections are made. The position also supports receiving, material handling, and staging activities as workload and staffing needs require. Essential Duties And Responsibilities Maintain an organized, clean, and controlled warehouse environment for raw materials and purchased parts. Establish and maintain designated storage locations, rack and bin identification, aisle organization, and clearly defined staging areas. Ensure materials are clearly identified and stored in assigned locations; correct or report misplaced, unidentified, excess, or improperly stored material. Consolidate partial quantities and maintain appropriate material-rotation practices, including FIFO where applicable. Maintain a high level of physical inventory accuracy and ensure inventory movements are properly recorded in the ERP system, including location transfers, returns, staging movements, and other applicable transactions. Establish and perform routine cycle counts and support periodic physical-inventory activities. Identify inventory discrepancies and investigate root cause before corrections are made, including review of receipts, transaction history, material movements, scrap, incorrect locations, production usage, and other potential causes. Document and report inventory-discrepancy findings to the Materials Supervisor and obtain required approval before making inventory adjustments or corrections. Recommend and support corrective actions intended to prevent recurring inventory discrepancies or warehouse-control issues. Assist with moving raw materials and parts into designated staging areas for transfer to Production; the position is not primarily responsible for final delivery of parts to Production locations. Support receiving activities during periods of high incoming volume, employee absence, or staffing shortages, including physical handling and system receipt of incoming materials when needed. Safely operate forklifts, pallet jacks, and other required material-handling equipment. Communicate and reinforce established expectations for how materials are received, identified, stored, moved, staged, counted, and recorded. Work with Production, Purchasing, Receiving, Engineering, Quality, and other functions as needed to resolve material, location, transaction, and inventory issues. As the role develops, may provide day-to-day work direction and task coordination to other warehouse personnel without initially having formal supervisory responsibility. Perform other related duties as assigned consistent with the purpose and level of the position. Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to maintain consistent warehouse standards and material-location discipline. Working knowledge of warehouse operations, inventory-control principles, cycle counting, material handling, and manufacturing material flow. Ability to use an ERP or inventory-m…