MRO Inventory Procurement Clerk

For nearly a century, The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. Jel Sert is proud of being awarded the Great Place to Work certification, along with being recognized as a Best Workplace to Work in Chicago and Best Workplace to Work in Manufacturing and Production. We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as a MRO Inventory Procurement Clerk. If you are looking for a work environment that encourages personal growth, responsibility, and a shared vision for creating incredible products that help create lasting memories, then Jel Sert wants you!

The MRO Inventory Procurement Clerk will be responsible for maintaining both maintenance and production departments with Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) inventory along with purchasing materials, parts and supplies while maintaining cost-effectiveness and efficiency.

This position will require the employee to work overtime as needed. Overtime is scheduled based upon individual job responsibilities and the needs of the department.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Inventory management including routine cycle counts, annual physical inventory, and maintaining MRO inventory.
• Purchasing of MRO inventory in accordance with food defense and product safety regulations and developed purchasing strategy.
• Reviews and manage inventory levels to evaluate possible elimination of duplicate items as well as reduce inventory levels and identify obsolete items.
• Coordinating vendor managed inventory items with departments and outside vendors by standardizing stock items with Max/Min/Reorder points within system.
• Verify items received against order; deliver to department stock room notifying appropriate party of items arrival and address invoice issues for stock MRO items with Accounts Payable for corrections to receipt quantities, corrections to price changes and/or missing packing lists.
• Communication with vendors in regards to orders, pricing, order issues, repairs, rejected materials and returns, etc.
• Maintain current vendor pricing in EAM.
• Finds and evaluates new/current concepts and technologies to improve Procurement and Inventory methods of maintaining stock parts.
• Creates parts list of all fabricated items including drawings. Evaluates alternative suppliers to reduce lead time and cost of fabricated items.
• Special projects as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 1 year of MRO experience required.
• Previous experience in purchasing within a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Knowledge of maintenance parts such as pumps, valves, filters, sprockets, chains, etc. is preferred.
• Must have computer skills including use of personal computers, email software, internet browser and MS Office.
• High school diploma or equivalent is required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Good analytical skills: observation, attention to detail, prioritization, and problem solving.
• Capable of working independently as well as in a team based environment
• Ability to be proactive: take initiatives, make suggestions, follow up with limited supervision.
• Desire to learn, take on challenges and responsibilities.
• Flexibility to adapt to change
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, bilingual (Spanish) beneficial but not required.
• Computer skills including experience utilizing MS Office, Internet and ERP (QAD preferred) with the ability to navigate through our vendor's ordering systems.

SALARY & BENEFITS

The Jel Sert Company is committed to pay transparency and will provide further compensation information during the interview process. The minimum compensation for the Distribution Associate is $21.25 per hour. Compensation is determined by a candidate's experience, education, skills, training, and the internal equity within our organization. Actual compensation to be paid will be determined upon an offer. In addition to a competitive compensation package, regular full-time corporate employees of Jel Sert are eligible for our extensive benefits programs that can be reviewed here.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, ramps, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work area to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position. Must be able to lift up to 25lbs.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal and high speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, and/or small parts at distances close to the eyes.
• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Office, manufacturing and warehouse environment.

• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, exposure to high heat.

ACCOUNTABILITIES CHECKLIST

Planning

• Prioritizes and schedules own work.
• Develops long-range objectives and plans to meet them (i.e. obtaining lowest cost for parts.)

FOOD SAFETY and QUALITY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Follow applicable procedures and work instructions.
• Monitor Quality Control Points (QCP) if Applicable QCCP's.
• Backup redundant

IMPACT ON JEL SERT SUCCESS

This job provides parts at low cost keeping essential equipment running with a minimum amount of downtime and consistent productivity.