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Inventory Production Support Manager
KodiakPosted 1 weeks ago
Full-timeonsite
Job Description
Inventory Production Support Manager
Department: Kodiak Admin
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Kodiak
Reporting To: Michael Sharp
Description
At Pacific Seafood, we do more than just provide the world with the healthiest proteins on the planet. We are a family-owned, excellence-driven organization committed to being the brand of choice in the marketplace and the employer of choice in the community. We believe in servant leadership, investing in our team members’ personal and professional growth, and rewarding performance. We live by the core values of our Diamond Philosophy: Teamwork, Productivity, Quality, and Excellence—which means consistently doing your best and always striving to do better.
Summary:
Summary:
An Inventory & Production Support Manager at Pacific Seafood is a key role for the overall financial success of our processing division. You will be leading efforts to standardize processes, improve costing accuracy and provide support to locations across the division. This position involves inventory control, costing, technology, and management and is ideal for someone who has leadership skills, organizational skills, production knowledge and is detail orientated. This position will also be a cross functional partner within the organization.
Key Responsibilities
1. Processing Plant Support:
- Provide overall leadership, direction, and accountability for plant level inventory control and production support activities.
- Oversee purchasing planning and inventory availability to support production requirements.
- Establish and enforce controls to ensure accurate, timely, and complete inventory transactions and financial records.
- Manage and participate in product costing reviews, including pre-season planning and ongoing cost analysis.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls, policies, and procedures related to inventory, production reporting, and financial integrity.
- Assess plant compliance, identify control gaps, and drive corrective actions to ensure adherence to approved inventory and costing procedures.
- Lead period end inventory counts, cycle counts, and reconciliation activities to ensure inventory accuracy.
2. Production Support and Reporting:
- Oversee plant level production support processes to ensure accurate production reporting and system integrity.
- Serve as the primary owner for APC processes, including documentation, standardization, maintenance, and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate with sales and marketing to synchronize inventory strategies with customer needs.
- Develop operational KPIs annually, ensuring continual monitoring, analysis of data, and course correction when necessary.
- Review and validate production reporting, cost allocations, and system transactions.
- Lead APC documentation, standardization, and further development as needed.
- Develop and maintain best practices for inventory control, production support, and data integrity
Additional responsibilities may be assigned as deemed necessary to support the overall goals and objectives of the position.
What you bring to Pacific Seafood
Required:
- 7+ years of Inventory Control experience.
- 3+ years of Production Support experience.
- Advanced proficiency in inventory management and ERP systems.
- Strong knowledge of industry best practices in inventory control and supply chain management
- Proven ability to lead cross functional initiatives.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and communication skills.
- Ability to analyze operational and financial data, identify trends or risks, and drive corrective actions.
Preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, finance, or related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proven track record of successfully implementing ERP systems.
- Experience working with ERP systems, including AS400 or similar legacy platforms.
Physical Requirements:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member:
- Sedentary work, walking and standing are required only occasionally.
- Reaching. Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Fingering. Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
- Talking. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
- Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
- Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Working Conditions:
The working environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is exposed to:
The working environment characteristics described here are representative of those a team member encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the team member is exposed to:
- Office, as well as warehouse environment.
- Moderate noise level in the work environment.
- Plant exposure to wet, cold, and/or humid temperatures.
- Standard office equipment and heavy machinery.
Benefits
Total compensation:
At Pacific Seafood your base wage is only a portion of your overall compensation package. We invest in our Team Members through a comprehensive and attractive total rewards package, including but not limited to:
- Health insurance benefits options, including medical, prescription, vision, dental, basic group life and short term disability.
- Flexible spending accounts for health flex and dependent care expenses
- 401(k) Retirement Plan options with generous annual company profit sharing match
- Paid time off for all regular FT team members, to include sick days, holiday pay, vacation, and personal time
- Employee Assistance Program- Confidential professional counseling, financial, and legal assistance provided at no charge to Team Members and immediate family members
- Product purchase program
Pacific Seafood is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.