Warehouse Coordinator

About the role

Kuraray America, Inc. (KAI) is a global leader in specialty chemical, fiber, and resin production. Our team members are dedicated to expanding our business with committed professionals who share essential values such as integrity, excellence, teamwork, and accountability. The Warehouse Coordinator is responsible for receiving, recording, storing, and distributing a wide variety of warehouse goods.

Responsibilities

• Incoming Goods & Storage: Order package supplies and raw materials, deliver and supervise routine warehouse and storeroom tasks, ensure all goods are stored, labeled, and recorded in accordance with established procedures and systems.
• Outgoing Goods: Complete routine outbound shipping and dispatch activities, coordinate material transfers between sites, assist team members with outgoing goods tasks under supervision, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and proper documentation of shipments.
• Transport: Transport goods and supplies on-site, between sites, or to customers as required, follow established transport and handling procedures to ensure safe and on-time delivery.
• Inventory Control: Perform basic inventory control tasks, including quantity, quality, and availability checks, compare physical stock against system records and report discrepancies, support cycle counts and routine inventory audits, perform month end inventory reconciliation.
• Document Preparation & Reporting: Prepare routine warehouse documentation using standard office software, perform basic formatting of letters, memoranda, shipping documents, and routine reports.
• Work Scheduling & Organization: Organize daily work activities in response to changing priorities, manage assigned tasks to meet operational deadlines.
• Operational Compliance: Follow mandatory warehouse procedures to meet quality, regulatory, and internal compliance standards, adhere to company policies, codes of conduct, and external regulatory requirements, support ISO and Responsible Care (RC) audits, ensuring 100% compliance.
• Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE): Comply with all health, safety, and environmental instructions, use required personal protective equipment (PPE), support a safe working environment for self and others.
• Personal Capability & Skills Development: Develop and maintain procedural and technical warehouse skills, participate in training, assessments, and development planning activities, engage in formal and informal coaching as required.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a warehouse, logistics, storeroom, or inventory-related role.
• Basic knowledge of warehouse operations, including receiving, storage, inventory control, and shipping.
• Ability to operate basic warehouse equipment and machinery (training or certification may be provided).
• Working knowledge of standard office software (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook) for document preparation and recordkeeping.
• Ability to follow established procedures, safety rules, and regulatory requirements.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage daily tasks and shifting priorities.
• Attention to detail to ensure accuracy in inventory records, documentation, and shipments.
• Ability to work independently under routine supervision and collaborate with others as part of a team.
• Ability to lift, carry, and move materials as required by warehouse operations, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Willingness and ability to wear required personal protective equipment (PPE) and work in a warehouse environment.

Qualifications

• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals.
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful.
• Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Results: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Values Difference: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Courage: Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
• Instills Trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.

Benefits

We offer a competitive compensation package that includes base pay and an annual incentive. Our employees benefit from a robust healthcare package that includes wellness reimbursements, along with generous perks such as three weeks of paid time off, ten company holidays, paid parental leave, education reimbursement, and a matching 401k plan, among other offerings.