Associate Cycle Counter - 1st Shift - $20.75/hr.
Portage, MIJob$20.75/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Associate Cycle Counter performs cycle and physical inventory counts across plant areas, investigates discrepancies, maintains ERP inventory records, and supports inventory management through documentation, reporting, and collaboration with operational teams. The role also supports part exchanges and proper handling of damaged or defective materials. Inventory and manufacturing experience, as well as a high school diploma or GED, are preferred.
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Full job description
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 6:00am-2:30pm, OT as needed by the business
What You’ll Do
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Perform cycle counts and physical inventory counts across multiple plant areas to maintain inventory accuracy.
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Investigate inventory discrepancies, conduct root cause analysis, and resolve variances between physical and system inventory.
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Maintain accurate inventory records in the ERP system and use system tools to research and track inventory issues.
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Compile and review purchase orders, inventory records, and related documentation to support inventory management.
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Ensure proper storage, labeling, organization, and traceability of inventory throughout the facility.
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Assist with Engineering Change Order (ECO) part exchanges and ensure damaged or defective materials are handled according to procedures.
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Prepare inventory reports and provide updates on shortages, discrepancies, and investigations during Tier 1 meetings.
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Collaborate with Materials, Quality, Assembly, Fabrication, and other teams to support inventory accuracy and continuous improvement initiatives.
What You Need:
Preferred Qualifications:
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Inventory Experience
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Manufacturing Experience
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High School Diploma/GED
$20.75/hr. plus bonus eligible and benefits.
Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.
How this job compares
Set against the 616 open Inventory Control jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$20.75/hr
- US median$20–23/hr195 hourly ranges
This rate, $20.75/hr, is 4% below the US median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the middle half of Inventory Control hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 17 open Inventory Control jobs in Michigan and 616 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- Inventory Control postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 4 years (377 postings).
- Education
- 31 of the 616 open Inventory Control jobs (5%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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