Inventory Manager

Northern California

We are recruiting an experienced Inventory Manager for a fast-developing advanced manufacturing environment supporting lithium-ion battery development and production.

This is a broad operational leadership role with responsibility for the movement and control of materials across receiving, warehousing, manufacturing support, work-in-progress, finished goods and shipping.

The position will suit someone who enjoys bringing structure, visibility and discipline to complex inventory environments where material accuracy, traceability and availability are critical to production.

• Leading receiving, warehouse, inventory-control, material-handling and shipping activities.
• Maintaining accurate inventory, lot, serial and location traceability.
• Managing raw materials, chemicals, production components, WIP and finished goods.
• Ensuring materials are available and correctly issued to manufacturing teams.
• Managing FIFO/FEFO, shelf-life and specialist storage requirements.
• Leading cycle counting, physical inventories and investigation of stock discrepancies.
• Managing finished-goods control, packaging and shipping activity.
• Supporting regulated shipment of lithium batteries and hazardous materials.
• Improving warehouse layout, material flow, stock accuracy and operational efficiency.
• Coaching and developing warehouse and inventory personnel.

• 7+ years of experience across inventory, warehousing, logistics or materials management.
• 3+ years of direct people leadership.
• Experience with in batteries, chemicals, hazardous materials or another regulated manufacturing environment would be particularly valuable.
• Strong ERP/MES knowledge and experience managing traceable inventory are also important.