Inventory Analyst
Duration: 6 months
Location: Houston, TX
Schedule: 5/40 (5 days/40 hours per week)
Job Type: W2 contract
Benefits: Dental, Healthcare, Life Insurance, Long-term Disability, Vision, 401k
Overview
This role is based within a refinery environment and supports a temporary, project-based stabilisation phase. The position works closely with warehouse operations, logistics, material demand planning, procurement, and project stakeholders to help protect operational readiness and execution. The working environment is hands-on, fast-paced, and closely connected to field and warehouse activity.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage inventory activities required to maintain material availability and inventory accuracy during the stabilisation period.
- Execute and control complex inventory transactions, including partial issues and receipts, returns, reversals, corrections, and manual adjustments where required.
- Investigate inventory discrepancies, incorrect on-hand balances, and stock variances, and drive timely resolution through root cause analysis and corrective action.
- Plan and support cycle counts, targeted inventory counts, and full inventory validation activities, including review of count results and variance resolution.
- Review replenishment signals and material requirements, identify exceptions impacting availability, and take action to prevent disruption to operations.
- Support inventory processes linked to job kitting, material staging, and marshalling to ensure materials are correctly allocated and available for execution.
- Maintain and improve material data quality, including descriptions, units of measure, storage locations, and lead times.
- Support inventory optimisation activities, including replenishment review, excess inventory management, obsolete stock review, and repairable materials coordination.
- Document recurring issues, track operational impacts, and provide clear reporting on inventory risks, discrepancies, and workaround activity.
Qualifications & Experience
- 5+ years of experience in inventory management, warehouse operations, or materials management.
- Experience with SAP ECC and/or S/4HANA, ideally within the MM module.
- Strong knowledge of MRP planning, replenishment processes, and physical inventory control.
- Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and data accuracy skills in high-tempo environments.
- Ability to operate in both system-based and field-based inventory environments.
- Desirable: Experience in refinery, petrochemical, or heavy industrial environments.
- Desirable: Experience in turnaround or project-based environments.
About Airswift
Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients. With over 1000 employees and 9,000 contractors operating in over 60 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure, and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled. If you would like to be considered for this role and would like further details, please apply now!