Inventory Control Specialist - Cycle Counter

About Decko Products LLC

Decko Products, LLC is a private label manufacturer based in Sandusky, Ohio, specializing in a variety of edible products for baking and decoration. We offer a wide range of products, including extruded royal icing decorations, butter cream icings, piping gel, and various fillings for cakes and desserts. We also provide special packaging services in the baking industry, ensuring high-quality standards and safety in our products.

Decko Products operates an FDA-inspected facility, and our team is dedicated to meeting the demands of the food industry.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. Equal employment opportunities will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Decko Products LLC will make reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability, unless the accommodation imposes an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Miss Jones Baking Co. / Decko Sandusky, Ohio Full-time, hourly, non-exempt

Position

Cycle Counter (Inventory Control)

Reports to

Warehouse Manager

Location

Sandusky, Ohio (on-site) — main plant and 2200 plant, plus off-site storage

Department

Warehouse / Inventory Control

Scope

Daily cycle counting, variance research, location and record accuracy, lot and date verification, and support of physical inventory

Not in scope

Receiving, picking, shipping and inventory adjustment approval — the count is independent of the transactions it verifies

Operating pattern

Primarily first shift with early starts; counting windows around the production and shipping schedule, including weekends during physical inventory

Compensation

Competitive hourly rate; range confirmed with the final candidate

We are creating a dedicated cycle counter position to establish and run inventory counting across our Sandusky operation. Today there is no cycle counting program entory records and the floor do not agree, and nobody owns finding out why.

This is not a job about writing numbers on a clipboard. Counting is the easy part. The value in this role is what happens after a count does not match: tracing it back, working out whether it was a receipt, an issue, a mis-pick, an unrecorded scrap, a pallet in the wrong location or a labeling error, and telling us the truth about it.

Someone who counts accurately but never asks why has done half the job.

The role reports to the Warehouse Manager and is deliberately kept separate from receiving, picking and shipping. A person who counts the material they also moved is not a control, and the whole point of this position is to be a control. The counter investigates and recommends; the Warehouse Manager approves every adjustment.

Everything downstream of inventory accuracy — production planning, purchasing, the MRP, product costing, and our ability to promise a customer a date — depends on this work being done honestly and consistently. It is one of the most important hourly roles in the building.

• Execute the daily cycle count schedule set by the Warehouse Manager, working to the ABC classification — high-value and fast-moving items counted often, slow and low-value items counted less often.
• Perform blind counts: count what is physically there and record it, without the system quantity in front of you. A count made while looking at the expected number is not a count.
• Count accurately by unit…