About this Opportunity
As an Inventory Control Specialist, you'll be responsible for helping implement and maintain inventory systems, performing cycle counts and audits, identifying problems, and working with the appropriate people to permanently correct inventory issues to ensure that the correct quantity of materials is available to support our reliability goals.


What You'll Do
You'll have opportunities to speak up, solve problems, lead others, and be an owner every day as you . . .

• Act as a liaison between Auditing, Planning, Production, Schedulers, Quality Control, and Engineering to analyze high potential causes of inventory inaccuracies.
• Assist in determining appropriate inventory strategies to meet customers' expectations and minimize inventory investment.
• Communicate inventory issues with appropriate team members, such as shortages caused by adjustments, discrepancies caused by failure to define processes, Bill of Material (BOM) issues, etc.
• Count, research, and reconcile inventory discrepancies.
• Identify and suggest corrective action to dispose of appropriate slow-moving or obsolete inventory to the Procurement Team.
• Maintain and report key measures, perform cycle or sample counts as required, and process all required paperwork (deviations and material transfers) as necessary.
• Maintain the accuracy of the systems by highlighting incorrect BOMs, validating and setting up inventory records with proper codes, and maintaining locations.
• Offer analysis of the situation and suggest a corrective course of action using spreadsheets and queries.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects and lead initiatives as appropriate.
• Partner with Engineering and other teams to review requests (ECOs) to change BOMs, add or delete purchased items, set up warehouses, etc.
• Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.
• Train teammates to follow correct inventory procedures and monitor processes to ensure compliance.

Sound Like You?
You might be just who we’re looking for if you have . . .

• An Associate's degree in Business, Logistics, Inventory or Supply Management, or any related degree (preferred), OR a High School Diploma with three to five years of relevant warehouse work experience (required).
• Familiarity with metrics, material variances, and yields (required).
• Experience with BOM- Bill of Materials (required).
• Previous auditor OR inventory control OR inventory management experience (preferred).
• A good mathematical aptitude, attention to detail, and the ability to perform accurate, error-free work.
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of material flow throughout the supply chain.
• The ability to obtain a material handling vehicle license.
• The ability to work with various computer programs such as Excel, Business Objects, Word, LES, and BaaN/LN.
• The physical ability to handle all incoming materials to facilitate counts.
• A demonstrated ability to effectively use the office automation, communication, software, and tools currently being used in the Herman Miller office environment.
• A demonstrated sense of urgency and good written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to perform all essential job functions of the position with or without accommodations.

Our Values

Our values speak to our shared beliefs. They describe how we live our purpose through the way we lead, the way we see one another, and the way we approach our work.

We are difference-makers reflects our commitments to creating places that matter, to being a good neighbor in our communities, and to using business as a force for good.

We are all extraordinary is our statement about the worth of individuals and our commitment to help everyone reach their full potential.

We are better together demonstrates how challenging one another, making room for everyone, and working and winning as one makes us stronger.

Who We Hire
Simply put, we hire everyone. MillerKnoll is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.