Inventory Control Manager
Description
POSITION SUMMARY
The Inventory Control Manager is responsible for building and leading Miller Industries' companywide inventory-control operating system. This is a builder role for a hands-on leader who can move the organization from fragmented practices and limited inventory visibility to disciplined, repeatable, and measurable control of material across manufacturing plants, warehouses, storage areas, and distribution locations.
Reporting to the Senior Materials Manager, this position will establish inventory policies, procedures, work instructions, system requirements, physical controls, scanning and identification methods, audit routines, cycle-count governance, transaction standards, and accountability for inventory accuracy. The manager will ensure that every material movement is completed correctly both physically and within the company's ERP and supporting inventory systems.
The role will work across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Shipping and Receiving, Scheduling, Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Information Technology to build one consistent approach to material identification, location control, storage, movement, consumption, transfer, reconciliation, and reporting. Success requires visible floor leadership, strong system discipline, practical process design, change leadership, and the ability to build a sustainable inventory-control function from the ground up.
Duties & Responsibilities
Inventory-Control System Development
• Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing development of a companywide inventory-control system for raw material, purchased components, work-in-process, finished goods, service parts, excess material, and other controlled inventory.
• Assess current inventory practices, identify control gaps, and establish a prioritized implementation roadmap by location, material type, and business risk.
• Define the future-state inventory operating model, including ownership, decision rights, escalation paths, location structure, transaction requirements, reporting, and management routines.
• Build scalable processes that support engineered-to-order and project-based manufacturing while maintaining part, job, unit, and location traceability.
• Partner with Information Technology and system users to improve ERP inventory functionality, master data, system controls, reporting, integrations, and user adoption.
• Lead the selection and implementation of practical inventory technology such as barcode labels, handheld scanners, mobile transactions, printers, identification standards, and warehouse-system capabilities.
• Ensure system design and physical process design remain aligned so inventory records accurately reflect actual material conditions and locations.
Policies, Procedures, and Standard Work
• Develop, document, implement, and maintain inventory-control policies, standard operating procedures, work instructions, process maps, forms, roles, and training requirements.
• Establish controlled standards for receiving, identification, labeling, put-away, storage, staging, kitting, material issue, consumption, transfer, return, reallocation, substitution, scrap, quarantine, adjustment, and shipment.
• Define approval requirements and segregation of duties for inventory adjustments, write-offs, reclassifications, transfers, and other high-risk transactions.
• Create clear standards for floor inventory, point-of-use material, temporary staging, outside storage, nonconforming material, customer-owned material, and supplier-managed inventory where applicable.
• Establish document-control and change-management practices so inventory procedures remain current, approved, understood, and consistently followed across locations.
• Develop training materials and qualification expectations for employees who receive, move, transact, count, stage, issue, or otherwise handle inventory.