Stores Associate Full Time

Our Georgia-Pacific OSB facility in Englehart, Ontario is recruiting for a Stores Associate. Reporting to the Purchasing Manager, this role will be responsible for managing all aspects MRO inventory to ensure it supports operations and reliability at the lowest total cost of ownership to GP. If you have a high attention to detail and like working with a team to achieve productivity goals, this may be the job for you!

Georgia-Pacific employees strive for safety and health excellence while achieving an injury free workplace.

What You Will Do

• Ensuring compliance with all safety and environmental policies and procedures
• Managing and owning the overall Spare Parts supply operations, including receiving and managing MRO parts, storeroom inventory, and supplies
• Responsible for developing inventory plans, maintaining optimal inventory levels, and assisting in developing criticality classifications for parts to track materials most critical to uptime.
• Working with maintenance and operations to understand inventory needs and ensure reliability is properly supported at the best total cost of ownership for GP.
• Identifying opportunities for stores-related process or workflow improvements and implementing as needed
• Conducting periodic review and analysis of the inventory including (but not limited to) cycle counting on demand reviews, overmax evaluation, slow moving inventory reviews, repair & return transactions, criticality reviews, and min/max reviews based on usage, lead time, and asset strategy. Driving conversations on these topics to ensure inventory opportunities are appropriately addressed to create maximum value for the facility and GP.
• Ensuring the storeroom is clean and organized through shelf/bin and parts identification with corresponding database accuracy.
• Driving improvements in Vendor-Managed and Committed Inventory
• Managing New Stock initiation process
• Training others on stores processes, the associated value, and driving accountability.
• Following, reviewing, and sharing knowledge on all applicable Internal Financial Controls and Purchasing and Storeroom policies
• Generating material releases and follow-up as needed
• Resolving invoice discrepancies as they occur and work to resolve root causes

Physical schedule requirements:

• Willing to work weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed.
• The ability to lift to 25 lbs. routinely.
• Ability to perform repetitive tasks for 8 hours/day, including but not limited to lifting, walking, pushing, pulling, climbing, and driving forklift.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• High School Diploma or GED
• A minimum of one (1) year of inventory management experience
• Adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
• Willing to meet the physical and schedule requirements of the role

What Will Put You Ahead

• At least three (3) years of inventory management experience or at least three (3) years manufacturing experience
• Knowledge of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) parts
• Experience and working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including the use of formulas for sorting data in Excel, Word, knowledge of TEAMS, and Outlook
• Experience with inventory management programs, MP2, MDM, Ariba, SPARC and Tableau

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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This position is eligible for Canadians of all ages