Inventory Specialist

Location: Appleton, Wisconsin, or project/shop-based as applicable. Minimal local travel is required. The role involves work in warehouse, shop, yard, and outdoor environments.

Company

Michels Power, Inc. delivers overhead and underground construction services for electric utility systems, fiber networks, substations, renewable energy facilities, battery energy storage systems, and other critical infrastructure across North America.

What you will do

• Order, receive, inspect, stock, store, issue, and distribute materials and parts.
• Maintain inventory records and enter inventory transactions and daily job cost data into company systems.
• Conduct inventory counts, audits, reconciliations, and cycle counts.
• Support prefabrication operations, field construction teams, and project leaders with material availability.
• Coordinate purchasing support, vendor quotations, material sourcing, shipping, and receiving documentation.
• Maintain product documentation, vendor relationships, warehouse organization, and continuous improvement activities.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED and at least 3 years of experience in a parts room, warehouse, inventory management role, or inventory tracking system, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience ordering, receiving, stocking, storing, tracking, and issuing inventory items.
• Experience maintaining inventory records and using inventory management software and Microsoft Office.
• Strong customer service, attention to detail, organizational, communication, and independent work skills.
• Valid driver's license with an acceptable driving record; ability to lift or move up to 50 pounds and perform physical material-handling activities.
• Experience with purchasing, vendors, shipping and receiving, construction, utility, industrial, warehouse, electrical, or prefabrication environments is preferred. A CDL is preferred but not required.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety is emphasized throughout warehouse and inventory activities.
• Training and career development investment averages $5,000 per employee per year.
• Health, dental, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance may be available.
• Benefits may include FSA, HSA, 401(k), legal plan, and identity theft protection and monitoring.
• Work supports the construction and maintenance of critical electric grid and communications infrastructure.