Inventory Clerk Lead

2 weeks ago

De Soto, KS, United States Panasonic Full time
Overview

Do you want to join a team that's changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Inventory Clerk Lead - Level 4? Then we're looking for you Check out the job description and apply now Put your skills to meaningful use, gain unique experience, and work with world-class team members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who share the same vision. Join the PECNA team today
Responsibilities

Job Summary:

The Inventory Clerk Lead - Level 4 oversees daily inventory operations, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely material availability to support production. This role directs and mentors inventory clerks, manages stock levels, leads physical counts, and resolves discrepancies. The Lead fosters a high-performance, safety-conscious team environment while promoting continuous improvement and adherence to Panasonic's core principles.

Essential Duties:

Functional Operations:
  • Operate and maintain tools and equipment within functional area
  • Ability to work all scheduled shift hours
  • Coordinate activities of clerks to ensure accurate entry of receipts, transfers, usage, and adjustments
  • Monitor lot tracking, component usage, min/max levels, and scrap/recovery processes
  • Oversee weekly spare parts reconciliations and validate inventory balance, safety stock, demand rate, and shortage reports
  • Lead monthly, year-end, and cycle counts, investigating and resolving discrepancies
Performance Optimization & Continuous Improvement:
  • Promote 6S and Lean practices to maintain safe, organized, and efficient work areas
  • Identify and implement process improvements to enhance inventory accuracy and workflow efficiency
  • Encourage a culture of continuous improvement, safety awareness, and adherence to Panasonic's core principles
Training & Team Support:
  • Assign and adjust staffing schedules, ensuring coverage during absences or downtime
  • Train, mentor, and motivate others at the same or lower level within functional area, fostering accountability and compliance with standards
  • No authority to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, reward, or discipline other employees
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication:
  • Coordinate with production, maintenance, and engineering to resolve material or quality issues
  • Support requisitions and ensure timely material availability to meet production schedules
  • Communicate effectively with other Leads and stakeholders through meetings, reports, and end-of-shift updates
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues in a timely manner
Quality, Safety, & Compliance:
  • Report quality issues promptly and implement corrective actions where needed
  • Support audits, inspections, and compliance with regulatory, industry, and customer standards
  • Support proper implementation of processes and procedures to ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and customer specifications
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Requirements:
  • To ensure health and safety in the workplace and for employee protection, wearing PPE is a possibility and includes equipment such as a full Tyvek suit, safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, face mask, and a full hazmat suit that includes a respirator. A respirator fit test will be required based on functional area.
The foregoing description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills and efforts or work conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the general nature and level of the job.

Qualifications:

Education:
  • Required: High School Diploma, GED, or 2 years of prior experience in functional area
  • Preferred: Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
Essential Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of experience in a fast-paced high-volume manufacturing environment
  • Strong communication, problem-solving, and team leadership skills
  • Safety-conscious mindset with ability to make independent, sound decisions
  • Demonstrated ability to positively influence culture and performance
  • Ability to pass certification for forklift, electric pallet jack, and manual pallet jack
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and report generation
  • Must have working-level knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing, and speaking English
  • Alignment to Panasonic's seven (7) core principles (contribution to society, fairness and honesty, cooperation and team spirit, untiring effort for improvement, courtesy and humility, adaptability, gratitude)
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 6+ years of experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment
  • Prior experience as a Shift Lead, Team Lead, or similar role
  • Experience in lithium-ion battery or related industries
Preferred License(s):
  • None
Preferred Certification(s):
  • APICS/ASCM Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM)
  • Forklift/Electric Pallet Jack Certification
  • OSHA Safety Training or similar
Physical Demands:

Physical Activities: Percentage of time (equaling 100%) during the normal workday the employee is required to:
  • Sit: 40%
  • Walk: 30%
  • Stand: 20%
  • Lift: 10%
Required Lifting and Carrying: Not required (0%), Occasional (1-33%), Frequent (34-66%), Continuous (67-100%)

For this position, the required frequency is:
  • Up to 10 lbs.: Occasional
  • Up to 20 lbs.: Occasional
  • Up to 35 lbs.: Frequent
  • Team-lift only (over 35 lbs.): Frequent
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