Inventory Specialist

Inventory Specialist Responsibilities

• Ensure daily review of Service Now portal customer equipment requests, tasks and tickets are fulfilled in a timely manner, in accordance with DLA Asset Management policies.
• Provide daily customer and team support to facilitate both local and regional hardware requirements and requests.
• Respond to email requests for information (RFI) s within 24 hours.
• Perform cyclical physical inventories of all DLA common use IT equipment.
• Monitor stock levels regularly and submit accurate, auditable monthly inventory reports.
• Ensure accountability and proper asset lifecycle procedures are used to conform to expected organizational standards and goals.
• Conduct all Receiving/Shipping of DLA hardware and ensure all hardware updates are performed in a timely and accurate manner, for all provisioned, transferred, received, and excessed equipment.
• Identify and communicate solutions to problematic areas of the asset control process.
• Verify the accuracy of the data recorded/updated in the IT Asset Management System (ITAMS) – Service Now – to maintain auditable digital hardware records.
• Draft correspondence and prepare site inventory reports, as required.
• Identify, address, and reconcile asset inventory variances immediately.
• Ensure all digital hardware documentation is maintained in accordance with the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) to preserve auditable records, including but not limited to: contracts, packing slips, bill of lading, transfer document, etc.
• Attend weekly team meetings and bi‑weekly regional operational meetings to ensure all requirements are addressed.
• Ensure work area is kept clean and organized; ensure all site safety standards are maintained; maintain publicly acceptable personal hygiene levels.
• Will require onsite travel using personal vehicle, company van, company golf cart or another motorized vehicle.

• Acquire and maintain a secret clearance with IT-II sensitivity.
• Ability to gain Forklift certification if local work area requires.
• Reliable transportation, and ability to use POV to travel on‑site.
• Minimum one year of relevant warehouse experience.
• Minimum one year of experience entering asset data and extracting reports from automated inventory tracking systems.
• Minimum one year of experience in performing physical inventories.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Adobe.
• One year of Service Now experience.
• Experience including accounting work, Power query, Power BI a plus.
• US Citizen

We offer a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short‑term and long‑term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

• Location:
  
  Columbus, OH
• Type of environment:
  Office and Warehouse Distribution Setting
• Noise level:
  Low to Medium
• Work schedule:
  
  Day shift Monday – Friday.
• Amount of Travel:
  Less than 10%

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to grip, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms;

and talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Daily physical demands of the Inventory Specialist could include the following:

• Repeated standing, walking and bending through warehouse and distribution centers. Some sites are 2 million square feet.
• Lifting up to 50 pounds repeatedly using overhead and bending motions.
• Moving up to 50 pounds repeatedly on and off pallets and onto shelves.
• Pushing and pulling up to 500 pounds of material up and down sloped grades with assistance of a pallet jack.
• Repeated…