3620 Label Inventory Coordinator-Day Shift

About the role

Full-time position responsible for maintaining inventory of labels to support plant production for both shifts.

Responsibilities

• Maintains accurate and adequate inventory of labels to support plant production for both shifts.
• Arranges labels and inventories them to assure on-hand necessary labels to operate daily without shortages.
• Informs Production Planning Manager when to order to prevent inventories from running out.
• Under direction of Production Planning Manager, creates and places purchase orders.
• Uses latest revision of daily production schedule as a guide to stage labels for both production shifts.
• Restocks returned labels.
• Inspects labels returned after each production shift.
• Counts labels.
• Checks partial boxes to ensure labels have not gotten mixed.
• Consolidates partial boxes.
• Seals boxes of labels after inspecting them, then returns the boxes to their proper storage area.
• Inspects product labels when received from the manufacturer and stocks them in the appropriate designated area.
• Looks up label inventories electronically.
• Updates label inventory spreadsheets daily or as needed.
• Prints inventory reports and makes adjustments as approved by the Production Planning Manager.
• Maintains physical label files at all times with the most current approved labels and samples.
• Operates a forklift to unload, transport, and stock labels and other packaging materials as necessary.
• Travels to local materials warehouses in conjunction with some job duties.
• Drives own or company vehicle.
• Keeps work areas neat and clean.
• Performs cycle counts of labels per direction, but not less than three times annually.
• Follows safety rules and company policies.
• Participates in training, employee meetings, committees, project teams, etc. as appropriate.
• Receives written instructions from packing schedule or verbal instructions from supervisor on above tasks and performs other work as directed by supervisor.

Requirements

• High school education plus additional training preferred.
• Math skills include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and fractions.
• Good written and verbal English communication skills needed; some conversational Spanish ability a plus.
• Ability to keep accurate and detailed records.
• Basic personal computer skills, with knowledge of standard business software.
• Certified forklift operator.
• Valid NC driver’s license with good driving record required.
• No supervisory responsibilities.
• Machines, equipment, tools used: computer, calculator, copier, telephone, forklift, own and/or company vehicle.
• Physical demands: reaching, standing, walking, fingering, grasping, talking, hearing, ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and make sound discriminations; lifting must be able to lift 50‑pound cartons of labels and exert 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects; close visual acuity required for computer terminal use and visual inspection of labels to confirm UPC accuracy.
• Work environment: splits time between office, label room, plant and warehouse; usual office conditions; plant and warehouse are inside with seasonal temperature variations; earplugs required in plant due to irritating machinery noise; head cover and beard cover required in plant; steel‑toed shoes required.