Overview
Berry Global, headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is committed to its mission of ‘Always Advancing to Protect What’s Important.’ With $13 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2019 on a combined pro forma basis from operations, Berry is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative nonwoven, flexible, and rigid products used every day within consumer and industrial end markets. Berry operates over 290 manufacturing facilities worldwide, on six continents, and employs over 48,000 individuals.
At Berry, we pursue excellence in all that we do and are always advancing to improve the way we work along with the products and services we provide. Our culture fosters trust and partnerships through appreciation, acknowledgement, and inclusion. At Berry, we are continuously improving to support our mission and exemplify our values of partnerships, excellence, growth, and safety. To learn more about Berry, visit berryglobal.com
Responsibilities
- Observe all Safety precautions, Food Safety requirements and Plant rules to prevent injury to self or others and to prevent loss of material or damage to equipment.
- Follow and wear all required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Maintain good housekeeping and 5S.
- Responsible for various aspects of inventory control.
- Responsible for creating and implementing Inventory Control procedures, managing and maintaining inventory levels to ensure product availability to meet production needs while minimizing inventory costs.
- Responsible for data processing, product data management and inventory variance reporting.
- Maintain and distribute Tooling Nomenclature
- Works closely with Operations personnel, and interacts with all other departments.
- Analyzes inventory levels, production speed and product demand to determine reorder levels which will ensure product availability and minimize inventory costs.
- Forecasts and analyzes needs for parts or product inventory.
- Analyzes and prepares reports with recommendations for eliminating defective, unusable or obsolete items.
- Analyzes daily production shortages and coordinates between purchasing and production to minimize shutdown time.
- Maintains and records inventory transactions in inventory control system.
- Compiles and maintains database of inventory records concerned with ordering, receiving, storing, issuing, and shipping materials, supplies, and equipment.
- Compares inventory records against physical count of inventory; makes adjustments to or investigates variances and inaccuracies, including reconciling all point-of-use locations.
- Responsible for all resin movement in and out of the plant.
- Receive resin to In Transit status in JDE after buyer updates quantity ordered to actual pounds shipped.
- Trace railcar shipments in ShipCSX
- Schedule plant switches in ShipCSX
- Notify PM, Buyer, Receiving, Quality, Supervisors of plant switches
- Receive resin in JDE
- Daily direct and monitor resin pumping
- Coordinate bulk truck deliveries
- Adjust resin to silo counts weekly (requires Management approval).
- Manage corrugate deliveries
- Manage pallet deliveries
- Enters data from cycle counts, reconciliation of cycle counts, and weekly item report.
- Uses physical counts from Warehouse Department to reconcile discrepancies.
- Enters data for internal part transfers and some incoming warehouse deliveries. Daily verification of all transactions are required, which will involve verifying the transactions of other employees.
- Reconciles inventory inaccuracies using negative inventory report, no usage / no forecast report, obsolete report, transaction trace history, and BOM audits.
- Assists with coordinating and executing annual plant-wide physical inventory.
- Verifies daily back-flushing of production inventory.
- Other duties as assigned by Management.
- Responsible for new item set-up and bill of material management, including piece usage calculations, mold run rate calculations and loading.
- Writes and implements Inventory Control procedures.
- Works with Production and QA to keep consistent procedures in place, including aiding with training of employees.
Qualifications
- Capable of physical mobility including sitting, bending, twisting, standing, and lifting.
- Capable of maintaining an attendance record within company guidelines and working required overtime.
- High school diploma or GED equivalency.
- Read, write and speak English.
- Past experience / proven ability within the specified disciplines.
- Negative drug screen test results.
- Any equivalent combination of education and experience, which provides the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job, will be considered.
- Experience working with an MRP system.
- Demonstrated knowledge of inventory control and warehouse procedures.
- Proficient in Excel and data analysis
- Knowledge of manufacturing cost accounting.
- Strong math and logic skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Able to develop metrics to monitor results.
- Able to effectively communicate ideas (through oral and written presentations).
- Able to listen to others and appropriately act on information provided.
- Able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Able to use a variety of computer programs/systems to track results (material databases, Word, Excel, Email, Internet, etc.).
- Able to work independently with little supervision.
- Prefer BA Degree in Business or a related field.
- Experience working in inventory control, cost accounting, and JDE would be a plus.
