Inventory Control Specialist en Pacific Seafood

At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are an excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community.  We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members, and rewarding performance.  We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Quality, Teamwork, Productivity, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.

Summary: 

An Inventory Control Specialist at Pacific Seafood is a key role on our Procurement team supporting efforts to maintain and optimize inventory control of all stock items. This position involves maintaining inventory levels, correcting any errors, and consistently identifying areas for improvement and is ideal for someone who has analytical skills, organizational skills, and is detail orientated.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Inventory Control Management and Analysis:

• Maintain inventory control by performing morning inventory adjustment duties, including reviewing receiving, processing credits, and reviewing negative quantity reports.
• Analyze inventory discrepancies for root causes and develop corrective action plans.
• Develop and maintain controls and procedures to ensure the inventory control process is followed.
• Perform regular cycle counts to ensure inventory accuracy.

• Attend morning inventory meetings and interface with vendors, production facilities, and customers to gather and distribute data in an efficient and timely manner.
• Coordinate with sales, production supervisors, and purchasing to establish proper inventory par levels.
• Interface with responsible buyers to resolve vendor credits and process daily customer credits.

• Assure product quality standards are met and inventories are correctly rotated.
• Identify, report, and assist in the deployment of opportunities for improvement within operations.
• Control shrinkage on all products with a high focus on in-house production items and track shrink and credits compared to budget goals.

• Print and distribute daily fresh inventory sheets.
• Review parent/child combinations in the mother table and review physical inventory, adjusting where necessary.
• Actively participate on the Shrink/Credit Team, ensuring accurate reporting and analysis of inventory-related data.

What You Bring to Pacific Seafood:

Required:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Two or more years of relevant experience

Preferred:

• Associate or bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited college or university
• Proficient in MS Office applications
• Knowledge of AS400
• Proficient data entry

• Sedentary work, walking and standing are required only occasionally.
• Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. 
• Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Total Compensation:

At Pacific Seafood, your base wage is only a portion of your overall compensation package. We invest in our Team Members through a comprehensive and attractive total rewards package, including but not limited to:

• Health insurance benefits options, including medical, prescription, vision, dental, basic group life and short-term disability
• Flexible spending accounts for health flex and dependent care expenses
• 401(k) retirement plan options with generous annual company profit sharing match
• Paid time-off for all regular FT team members to include sick days, paid holidays, vacation, and personal time
• Employee assistance program providing confidential professional counseling, financial and legal assistance at no charge to team members and immediate family members
• Product purchase program