Gertens Family of Businesses is seeking an Inventory Control Specialist to join our Warehouse Department in Eagan. In this Full Time opportunity, you will report to the Inventory Control Manager and provide feedback to Distribution and Operations Teams and the Inventory Control Manager to improve shipping accuracy and efficiency.

This position offers a competitive benefits package including 401(k) with a company match, profit sharing, and 20% employee discount. Join an industry leader today and the Midwest largest Greenhouse and Garden Center.

As the Inventory Control Specialist you will:

• Measure and track accuracy regarding picking, shipping, and stocking inventory in a warehouse environment.
• Work with and communicate to multiple Managers to ensure inventory accuracy in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to use multiple operating systems simultaneously.
• Regular use of Outlook, Excel, Word, and Google Docs.
• Constant analyzing of information to improve processes and procedures.
• Ability to clearly communicate issues and offer suggestions for solutions.

Inventory:

• Complete assigned daily cycle counts within all departments of the warehouse. Process should ensure all product is located accurately. Provide feedback to Operations, Distribution, and Inventory Managers to improve accuracy.
• Measure and track cycle counts with accumulating data to be reported daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly.
• Analyze cycle count information to be compared between 2 software systems to improve inventory accuracy.
• Review Excel inventory reports to ensure proper inventory levels in the warehouse.
• Review, analyze, and adjust daily inventory control adjustments from what is currently 7 retail stores.
• Maintain constant communication with Distribution, Operations, and Inventory Managers to ensure consistency of inventory performance for the entire team.
• Share weekly adjustment information obtained from retail locations to their District Manager.
• Participate in bi-annual inventory audits of multiple retail locations to include at least 1 warehouse.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Experience in cycle counting and inventory preferred
• Ability to work overtime and occasional weekends with little previous notice.
• Experience with ERP system management, Epicor Eagle and/or Latitude Path Guide preferred.
• Previous exposure to warehouse environment preferred.
• Previous experience with bar coding and automatic data collection preferred.
• Ability to speak, write and understand English.
• Good interpersonal, written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with a variety of diverse individuals.
• Ability to establish trust and credibility with employees.
• Must have excellent organizational skills and be able to regularly multi-task.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to thrive in a high volume, and constantly changing environment.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk, and hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

E-Verify:
Gertens participated in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Gertens Family of Businesses is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer