GTI Fabrication
Modular structures and manufacturing
MRO/VMI Coordinator
Full-Time
$26.50 - $31/hr
Junior, Mid
Buffalo, NY, USA
In Person
About the job
Requirements
- 1-3+ years of experience in MRO inventory, storeroom management, maintenance purchasing, warehouse operations, or supply chain support.
- Experience working in manufacturing, industrial, distribution, or plant operations environments.
- Strong understanding of spare parts management, inventory controls, and replenishment logic.
- Excel and data analysis skills.
- High sense of urgency, organization, and ownership mentality.
- Strong communication skills with ability to work across Maintenance, Operations, and Supply Chain teams.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day inventory management for maintenance, repair, and operating supplies, including spare parts, motors, bearings, belts, sensors, valves, electrical components, tools, personal protective equipment, lubricants, janitorial supplies, and facility materials.
- Maintain proper stock levels for critical spare parts and frequently used maintenance items to prevent downtime.
- Establish and manage minimum and maximum levels, reorder points, safety stock, and replenishment triggers.
- Monitor consumption trends and proactively adjust stocking strategies based on plant demand.
- Ensure technicians and operations teams have rapid access to materials required for uptime and repairs.
- Maintain on-site vendor-managed inventory supplier programs, including fasteners, consumables, vending systems, stocked bins, safety supplies, and commonly used maintenance materials.
- Coordinate vendor visits, replenishment schedules, stocking cadence, and service levels.
- Evaluate opportunities to expand vendor-managed inventory programs where beneficial to reduce administrative burden and improve service.
- Ensure storeroom organization, including labeling, bin locations, visual controls, cleanliness, and inventory discipline, and report improvement opportunities to the MRO Buyer.
- Investigate root causes of shrinkage, stockouts, overstock, and inventory errors.
- Maintain accurate enterprise resource planning inventory records, item masters, unit measures, and transactions.
- Partner daily with Maintenance, Facilities, and Production leadership to understand equipment reliability needs and upcoming maintenance events.
- Support planned shutdowns, preventive maintenance schedules, equipment installations, and emergency repair needs with material readiness.
- Coordinate urgent part-sourcing requests with the MRO Buyer and external suppliers.
- Track open purchase orders, expected receipts, late deliveries, and shortages.
- Support supplier onboarding, item setup, and alternate sourcing efforts for obsolete or constrained materials.
- Identify recurring breakdown-parts usage and partner with Maintenance on root-cause solutions.
- Support total productive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and reliability-centered maintenance initiatives through strong parts readiness.
- Participate in root cause analysis using 5 Whys, Fishbone, and corrective action methodologies.
- Improve material flow, response times, and storeroom efficiency through process improvements.
- Track and report key performance indicators including stockouts, inventory accuracy, fill rate, vendor-managed inventory performance, downtime caused by missing parts, spend trends, and inventory turns.
- Enter data for dashboards and reporting tools for plant leadership visibility.
- Maintain accurate records for audits, controls, and operational reviews.
- Maintain safe storage practices for chemicals, lubricants, electrical parts, and maintenance materials.
- Ensure compliance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration, environmental, and internal storage requirements.
- Support proper handling and disposal processes for regulated materials where applicable.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience supporting fabrication, welding, assembly, automation, or industrial manufacturing environments.
- Background in Vendor Managed Inventory, crib management, or industrial vending systems.
- Knowledge of maintenance parts including motors, bearings, pneumatics, hydraulics, electrical controls, and consumables.
- Lean Manufacturing, 5S, APICS, or inventory management certifications.
About the company
GTI Fabrication is a manufacturer of purpose-built modular structures for energy storage, data centers, defense, and industrial uses. Its in-house capabilities cover design, fabrication, assembly, integration, testing, and deployment support. The company builds containerized and modular systems to customer specifications at U.S. manufacturing facilities. GTI manufactures modular systems whose structural, electrical, mechanical, and customer-equipment requirements are integrated before deployment, making its offering broader than metal fabrication and inclusive of testing, logistics, and deployment readiness.
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