Position Summary
The MRO Materials Specialist is responsible for supporting the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the Eddyville Chlor Alkali facility by ensuring maintenance materials, spare parts, consumables, services, and rental equipment are available, accurate, traceable, and properly controlled.
This position supports Maintenance and Operations by managing the day-to-day MRO materials process, including purchasing support, receiving, inventory control, material preservation, work-order kitting, vendor coordination, and inventory-system transactions.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate, available, and traceable inventories of maintenance materials, spare parts, consumables, and rental equipment.
- Procure and expedite parts, consumables, services, and rental equipment within assigned authority.
- Receive, inspect, label, preserve, locate, store, and issue maintenance materials with appropriate documentation.
- Maintain item-master information, inventory min/max levels, critical-spares information, shelf-life requirements, warranties, and inventory accuracy.
- Assign materials to assets and maintenance work orders and support job kitting and staging activities.
- Reconcile unused materials and returns following maintenance work.
- Administer barcode and inventory transactions and maintain traceable relationships between inventory, plant assets, and work orders.
- Coordinate vendor-managed inventory and supplier activities.
- Perform and support cycle counts, discrepancy resolution, and inventory-accuracy activities.
- Identify and manage obsolete or excess inventory and coordinate rental-equipment returns.
- Track stockouts, inventory accuracy, kit readiness, supplier delivery performance, and obsolete inventory.
- Store chemicals and regulated materials in accordance with applicable labeling, SDS, segregation, and spill-control requirements.
- Support Maintenance in identifying and obtaining materials for planned maintenance, corrective work, outages, and emergent equipment needs.
- Maintain accurate materials, purchasing, receiving, inventory, and work-order documentation within company systems.
- Perform other MRO materials and maintenance-support duties as assigned
Requirements
Qualifications
Required
- High school diploma or GED.
- Previous supply chain, inventory, warehouse, or maintenance-parts experience.
- Ability to use ERP, CMMS, inventory-management, and barcode systems.
- Working knowledge of inventory receiving, storage, issuing, cycle counting, and inventory accuracy.
- Basic understanding of purchasing and vendor-management processes.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accurate records and material traceability.
- Ability to work collaboratively with Maintenance, Operations, Procurement, vendors, and other facility personnel. [FINAL_Eddy...eadiness 1 | Excel]
Preferred
- Previous MRO storeroom or maintenance-materials experience in an industrial manufacturing facility.
- Experience in chemical manufacturing, chlor-alkali, refining, power generation, or another process industry.
- Experience supporting maintenance work orders, parts kitting, and critical-spares management.
- Experience with computerized ERP/CMMS inventory-management systems.
- Powered industrial truck/forklift experience or qualification.
- Experience handling materials subject to hazardous-material storage or transportation requirements.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, reach, and perform material-handling activities in warehouse and industrial plant environments.
- Ability to safely operate or work around material-handling equipment when trained and authorized.
- Ability to access shelving, storage areas, receiving areas, and maintenance facilities.
- Ability to wear required PPE while working within warehouse and production areas.
Working Conditions
This position operates within an active chemical manufacturing facility and maintenance storeroom environment and regularly interacts with Maintenance, Operations, Procurement, suppliers, contractors, and delivery personnel. Work may include warehouse, receiving, outdoor, and production-area activities. Schedule flexibility may occasionally be required to support outages, critical equipment needs, deliveries, and operational priorities.
Benefits
Why Join Chlorum?
Chlorum is building a world-class chlor-alkali business focused on safety, reliability, and operational excellence. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
Chlorum is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and ability to perform the essential functions of the position, without regard to any status protected by applicable law.