STORES ASSOCIATE

Stores Associate

Our Georgia-Pacific OSB facility located in Fordyce, AR 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.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific in Fordyce, AR manufactures Oriented Strand Board (OSB), compressed strands of wood chips that are bound together by adhesives which prevent moisture intrusion.

The most common uses are sheathing walls, flooring, and roof decking.

Georgia-Pacific's Building Products business has consistently been among the nation's top suppliers of building products to building materials dealers and large warehouse retailers.

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

To learn more about our Building Products division, visit www.buildgp.com .

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.

Who You Are (Basic Qual...