Inventory Lead

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

The Inventory Lead performs coordinated cycle counts, assists receiving raw material, and assists with loading outbound trailers as requested by bakery to ensure they arrive at the bakery timely for production.  Directs team members on proper storage location of allergens/non allergens.  Assures systematic movements are created on all material movements.

Responsibilities:

• Train all incoming employees in all areas of shipping, receiving, cycle counting, auditing.
• Monitors all orders received from bakery and create picklist to load materials based on FEFO.
• Audit warehouse daily to ensure inventory accuracy
• Assist receiving as needed.
• Verify COA is within specification based on V Drive
• Assist with staging of materials for shipment .
• Assist with physical & systematic movement of raw materials to storage location/outbound staging.
• Load trailers of outbound materials to other Aspire Bakeries/Cayce Bakery
• Assist systematic/physical returns raw materials to warehouse storage locations’.
• Assist systematic/physical returns packaging materials to warehouse storage locations
• Monitor and track all material movements to ensure inventory accuracies
• Oversee and assist daily physical inventory cycle counts in accordance with published schedule.
• Maintain proper temperature in warehouse and record temperature of material upon arrive and prior to shipment.
• Maintain housekeeping in dry warehouse.
• Monitors movements to guarantee FEFO is being followed
• Assist in applying labels for product entering and exiting warehouse
• Operates lift truck in production area and warehouse.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: 

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• At least 1 year SAP experience in a manufacturing environment
• At least 1 year inventory/cycle counting experience in a fast paced manufacturing environment.
• At least 1 year forklift experience (sit down and deep reach)

Shift: 1st

Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.