Inventory Planner

at  Powertech Labs

Powertech Labs Inc is a cleantech company with the mission of being a trusted innovation partner providing solutions, specialized testing, and technical expertise for a safe and sustainable global energy future. Powertech has a global reputation for delivering transformative solutions in both the electric power industry as well as the transport sector. A clean future will be driven by electric and hydrogen power, and we will help get there.

We are always guided by our values as a global clean-technology and engineering company:

• Safety: This top everything. We do our work safely or we do not do it at all.
• Challenges: We ready ourselves for the hardest challenges – through attaining accreditations, developing industry-leading innovative products & services, investing in our labs, hiring great people, and making them better.
• Diverse Teams: We are strongest together and capitalize on our varied attributes – together we are more than the sum of parts.
• Our customers: Customers fuel this company, and we constantly work with them to earn and retain their trust and loyalty. We expect that our customers hold us accountable to our commitments.
• Excellence: Striving for excellence, acting with integrity, and having the highest standards in quality are core to what we do.

Powertech has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an Inventory Planner within its Asset Management Solutions division. We offer multi-disciplinary engineering support through technology evaluation for suitability, material selection and specification, pre-commissioning support and quality assurance, developing inspection or repair strategies, condition assessment for extending life, or failure analysis at end of life. Within the division, the EV Infrastructure team offers their expertise in designing and executing test programs to thoroughly evaluate functionality and fitness for purpose of new technologies before launching broadscale deployment or customer incentive programs. The department also plays an integral role in helping our parent company, BC Hydro, achieve their deployment targets for public charging.

Duties

• Determines equipment and material procurement quantities using known project requirements, field estimates, historical and other data for assigned commodities; sets appropriate central warehouse stock levels and determines optimum supply strategy; optimizes the use of materials by ensuring consumption of existing stock and/or determines substitutes by consulting with procurement and standards professionals.
• Sets up and sustains system forecasts for assigned commodity items; analyzes Re-order Notice (RON) details for items requiring stock replenishment and determines order quantities based on historical and future projections and adjusts Order Parameter Settings (Re-Order point, Safety Stock and Target Max) to optimize inventory levels to meet current demands and service requirements, while balancing financial risk of overstocking and costs to carry, security of supply and risk of stock outs; prepares RONs to replenish stock requested by others and to satisfy changes in demand where planned demand is significantly different from trend; performs stock reviews of selected commodities to ensure quantities scheduled for delivery meet anticipated demands.
• Determines necessary quantities & timelines required and provides this information to the purchasing department to execute procurement processes. Works with purchasing departments to collect information for contract approvals in regards to quantities required and expected forecast requirements.
• Reviews slow turning stock and facilitates identification of surplus and obsolete stock with stakeholders across BCH and BCTC to meet Financial Information & Control Requirements (FICR) compliance. Prepares Disposal Authorizations for surplus and obsolete stock items and communicates results to stakeholders to facilitate financial write offs.
• Works with customers, storekeepers, buyers and asset managers to manage unanticipated material and equipment shortages by identifying and realigning priorities to meet customer need dates. Minimizes construction delays by optimizing, reprioritizing and reallocating existing stock through stores transfers; identifies available alternatives, such as compatible units, during periods of limited supply.
• Participates as a user representative in the development, testing and implementation of enterprise asset management and work management system upgrades that impact inventory management processes and procedures; monitors administrative process, identifies problem areas and initiates corrective action.
• Reviews and requests catalogue updates to maintain accurate stock descriptions, specifications, approved products and material classifications for assigned commodity items.
• Keeps current on inventory and logistics trends, strategies and best practices by participating in external industry-related research or training and development forums.
• Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties that do not affect the rating of the job.

Qualifications

• High school graduation plus successful completion of Logistics Management modules leading to accreditation from the Logistics Institute (P.Log.) or equivalent courses in business administration or operations management from an accredited post-secondary institute.
• Two (2) years of experience working with an inventory-based material management system. Requires a good understanding of purchasing processes. Valid driver’s license required.

Skills, Knowledge and Abilities Required:

• Good knowledge of material used in BC Hydro’s single & three phase overhead distribution systems.
• Good knowledge of material used to meet BC Hydro’s single & three phase underground standards.
• Working knowledge of purchasing inventory and logistics management principles, practices and procedures.
• Working knowledge of BCH inventory, work management and purchasing systems.
• Ability to utilize common desktop applications.
• Excellent analytical skills to manage large sets of data and make recommendations based on findings.
• Ability to utilize Excel software to an advanced level.
• Knowledge of the electrical industry.
• Good understanding of transportation timelines and schedules to facilitate movement of inventory in critical situations.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Proven organizational skills.
• Ability to build and manage working relationships with internal customers and stakeholders and BCTC.
• Ability to drive a vehicle.

PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THIS ROLE HAS BEEN ASSESSED AS SAFETY SENSITIVE AND PRE-QUALIFICATION ALCOHOL AND DRUG TESTING WILL BE REQUIRED AS A PRE-CONDITION TO EMPLOYMENT.

Powertech Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We include everyone. We welcome applications from anyone, including members of visible minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. We are also happy to provide reasonable accommodations throughout the selection process and while working at Powertech Labs.
Maintaining customer-confidence and our reputation is key: To this end, all our campus and laboratories are accredited to ISO9001 (quality), ISO14001 (environment stewardship) and ISO45001 (safety) and IEC/ISO 17025 for over 100 standards. To complement the focus on accreditation, we encourage our experts to drive global standards and provide development opportunities for all staff to grow in their role and to advance in their careers.
Working at Powertech is not a job but a career. If you want to be a part of a growing clean technology company that is impactful and working towards a common goal of accelerating the world towards a net zero carbon future, come and join our team.
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Duties

• Determines equipment and material procurement quantities using known project requirements, field estimates, historical and other data for assigned commodities; sets appropriate central warehouse stock levels and determines optimum supply strategy; optimizes the use of materials by ensuring consumption of existing stock and/or determines substitutes by consulting with procurement and standards professionals.
• Sets up and sustains system forecasts for assigned commodity items; analyzes Re-order Notice (RON) details for items requiring stock replenishment and determines order quantities based on historical and future projections and adjusts Order Parameter Settings (Re-Order point, Safety Stock and Target Max) to optimize inventory levels to meet current demands and service requirements, while balancing financial risk of overstocking and costs to carry, security of supply and risk of stock outs; prepares RONs to replenish stock requested by others and to satisfy changes in demand where planned demand is significantly different from trend; performs stock reviews of selected commodities to ensure quantities scheduled for delivery meet anticipated demands.
• Determines necessary quantities & timelines required and provides this information to the purchasing department to execute procurement processes. Works with purchasing departments to collect information for contract approvals in regards to quantities required and expected forecast requirements.
• Reviews slow turning stock and facilitates identification of surplus and obsolete stock with stakeholders across BCH and BCTC to meet Financial Information & Control Requirements (FICR) compliance. Prepares Disposal Authorizations for surplus and obsolete stock items and communicates results to stakeholders to facilitate financial write offs.
• Works with customers, storekeepers, buyers and asset managers to manage unanticipated material and equipment shortages by identifying and realigning priorities to meet customer need dates. Minimizes construction delays by optimizing, reprioritizing and reallocating existing stock through stores transfers; identifies available alternatives, such as compatible units, during periods of limited supply.
• Participates as a user representative in the development, testing and implementation of enterprise asset management and work management system upgrades that impact inventory management processes and procedures; monitors administrative process, identifies problem areas and initiates corrective action.
• Reviews and requests catalogue updates to maintain accurate stock descriptions, specifications, approved products and material classifications for assigned commodity items.
• Keeps current on inventory and logistics trends, strategies and best practices by participating in external industry-related research or training and development forums.
• Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties that do not affect the rating of the job