Temporary Equipment Parts Storekeeper

The Riverside County Flood Control Department is seeking a Temporary Equipment Parts Storekeeper to join its team in Riverside.

The Equipment Parts Storekeeper is responsible for procuring, storing, and issuing parts essential to the maintenance of a large fleet of automotive, road construction, and road maintenance equipment. The role includes coordinating with various vendors, sourcing specialized or hard-to-find components, and preparing inventory reports for departmental use. Essential programs utilized in this position include asset management software, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), and other County systems.

The selected candidate may also be required to travel throughout Riverside County to manage inventory at additional Flood Control facilities.

Competitive applicants will have experience using asset management systems and generating inventory reports. Proficiency or advanced skills in Microsoft Excel are highly desirable.

Work experience at an automotive parts supplier performing inventory management, reporting, and cycle counts is also desired.

The Department of Flood Control serves the County's solid waste disposal needs by providing for efficient and effective landfilling of County non-hazardous waste, protecting the environment, and promoting recycling in order to ensure a safe and healthy community for current and future generations.

The Temporary Assignment Program (TAP) recruits and hires temporary employees for all County departments. TAP assignments are a great way to learn about working for the County while working on a temporary, at-will basis.

TAP Benefits:

• Keeps a large perpetual inventory of small fast moving parts used in common repairs on a variety of automotive and construction equipment; determines order points for supplies and materials and orders as necessary.
• Receives checks, stores and issues materials and equipment; checks prices on incoming parts and insures appropriate credit on exchanges; assists in identifying sources for parts not stocked and selects supplier for necessary parts.
• Participates in the checking on repair jobs in the shop, anticipating parts needs and ordering in advance or expressed need; participates in and leads assigned warehouse staff in the inspection of deliveries for damaged equipment and supplies or discrepancies in quantity, size, type and terms of purchase orders.
• Purchases parts and materials from suppliers on open purchase orders; maintains inventory control records, insuring that parts and supplies are charged to correct vehicle or Transportation Department district.
• Keeps abreast of possible sources for parts and arranges appropriate transportation for parts to have available when needed; arranges for farming out repair work to local shops and negotiates cost.
• Obtains, stores, and issues welding, painting, and special steel, metal and other road supplies; keeps records and prepares reports.

Two years of experience in obtaining, storing, and issuing automotive or construction equipment parts.

Store keeping methods and procedures; of stock control and perpetual inventory procedures; the parts and supplies used in the maintenance and repair of automotive and construction equipment; the sources and costs of automotive and equipment parts.

Maintain up-to-date perpetual inventory records; determine parts to be needed from the nature of repair work in process; identify parts from a variety of types and makes of equipment; locate sources for parts which are no longer in production; maintain effective relations with other workers and with parts suppliers; keep records of stock and purchases.

A valid California Driver's License is required to perform inventory management…