Inventory Specialist - Manassas, VA

Overview

M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.

Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

• Monitor, Track, Trend
• Accuracy or number of discrepancies per inventory taken
• Fill requests (on-time; correct quantity; right product)
• Timeliness of reporting, i.e., late reports get notices mailed
• Adherence to regulatory and contract requirements
• Reduction in excess and obsolete inventory
• Inventory turnover per inventory item
• Storage
• Maintain adequate, safe, accessible, secure storage location, e.g., area, aisle, shelve, order of usage such as items frequently used near the loading dock
• Optimize space utilization
• Store in a manner that can be inspected by the customer (low clutter, organized, labeled)
• Maintain access control for each separate inventory. Authorize and deauthorize access, i.e., control who enters and accesses each inventory and monitor for unusual access
• Receiving
• Inspect and receive
• Understand required bar codes schema and barcoding process
• Shipping
• Timely fill orders and communicate release; track receipt of at ship-to location
• Inspect and ship. Follow shipping export and safety regulations (EAS; ITAR)
• Ship in appropriate container accessible and safe, i.e., make life easy for the receiver
• Track and record transfers, in-process and inspection and receiving destinations, i.e., not done until you validate it was received properly at the next location
• Inventory
• Analyze quantity-to-maintain based on estimated usage
• Conduct accurate physical inventories in a timely manner on the proper cycle
• Audit the counts and inventories of others
• Research discrepancies, document discrepancies, report discrepancies
• Report and dispose of obsolete or excess inventory
• Compare inventory to inventory calculation (beg. balance + received – shipped = ending balance)
• Assess value of inventory using FIFO and report value and type of equipment as needed for insurance purposes and for charging projects including cost-plus projects
• Periodically report inventory to customer in their format whether paper or electronic
• Transfers and Sales and Scrap
• Accrue sales taxes and regulatory fees for inventory sold (not transferred) to 3rd parties
• Follow up with customer to ensure receipt in good condition, i.e., confirm receipt in good condition at right location
• Maintain a scrap policy and document scrap sales

• Government Furnished Equipment
  • A contract requirement.
  • Can be for maintenance or task orders
  • Can be any value, i.e., there is no minimum dollar threshold to track
  • The government has acquired and entrusts MCD to manage the property to include its physical location, quantity, age, value, receiving, shipping, and disposition. MCD certifies the inventory.
  • We must value the inventory for insurance purposes.
• Contractor-Acquired Property:
  • Same requirements as GFE but MCD acquires the equipment or supplies instead of the USG.
• Warehouse inventory:
  • Commercial or government customers provide the equipment to MCD to store, e.g., Microsoft equipment stored at CCW.
  • Inventory in the warehouse can be for general use (excess material), or specific to a project or fabrication order (bulk or barcoded).
  • We base our contents insurance are on the value of the contents at our facilities so we must maintain the value to update our insurance company on changing values.
  • Locating items can take…