STEVEN SLAUGHTER JR
Memphis
Summary
I hope to utilize the skills and knowledge I have accumulated in the various fields throughout my employment history to become a valuable asset in a solid company to grow and prosper with it as well.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Inventory Coordinator
Body Panels
10.2023 - 02.2025
- Resolved discrepancies between physical counts and electronic records through thorough investigation and reconciliation efforts.
- Identified, relabeled, and consolidated like parts to more efficiently and accurately be pulled by warehouse personnel for sales and delivery to customers and reduce clutter.
- Reduced stock discrepancies by diligently investigating variances and resolving issues promptly.
- Improved inventory accuracy by conducting regular audits and implementing an efficient tracking system.
- Trained new employees on proper inventory procedures, ensuring consistency in processes across the team.
- Maintained an up-to-date knowledge of industry best practices and trends, ensuring continuous improvement in inventory management processes.
- Enhanced warehouse organization by redesigning storage layouts and implementing a barcode system for easy tracking.
- Optimized warehouse space utilization by regularly assessing layout effectiveness and making necessary adjustments as needed.
- Oversaw the safe disposal or recycling of obsolete or damaged materials in compliance with regulatory requirements.
Machine Operator
Shields Wood Products
03.2022 - 02.2023
- Followed detailed instructions to operate machines with accuracy and produce quality products.
- Set up and adjusted equipment and properly configured machines for daily operation.
- Complied with company and OSHA safety rules and regulations.
- Trained new employees on proper machine operation, ensuring adherence to company standards and safety guidelines.
GPM Investments (EZ Mart)
03.2020 - 12.2020
- Fill in for store manager’s absence
- Counting and balancing money for each shift
- Counting, balancing, accounting for, and creating daily bank deposits
- Inventory reporting
- Customer complaints
- Merchandising
- Vendor check ins
- Ordering, receiving, and stocking weekly grocery orders
- Store appearance and cleanliness
Key Carrier/Shift Supervisor
O’Reilly Auto Parts
12.2017 - 12.2019
- Company Overview: Certified Parts Professional with over 300 courses graduated via company intranet for O’Reilly University for continued daily learning and advanced knowledge available to Team Members
- Responsible for opening/closing the store and store appearance upkeep
- Verifying and signing off on counter salespersons’ deposits and startup cash at the end of the business day
- Delegation of daily store responsibilities to other on-staff team members
- Making sure all 'End of Day Reporting' were ran nightly and deposits for the following day were accounted for and correct
- Customer service unable to be handled by Team Members without a 'Management accessibility' ('Override' passwords and customer accounting research capability) within the network
- Accountability for petty cash, keys, safe contents and combination(s)
- Traveled among our intradistrict sister-stores assisting with wall-to-wall inventories for those stores over the course of two months every year
- Daily receiving and discrepancy research of overnight stock and ordered customer parts
- Stocking, fronting and facing of shelved inventory, planogram building and store layout (seasonal changes included) per corporate specifications and deadlines
- Certified Parts Professional with over 300 courses graduated via company intranet for O’Reilly University for continued daily learning and advanced knowledge available to Team Members
Warehouse & Asst Operations Supervisor; Inside Sales Coordinator
Keystone Automotive dba LKQ
10.2012 - 11.2017
- Inside collision part, paint, and PBE material sales to area collision centers and walk in customers
- Supervision of personnel and daily operations of a large crossdocking warehouse housing around a $2Mil inventory of aftermarket and some OE auto collision parts, paint, and body materials
- Support delivery and Hotshot driver
- Inhouse automotive paint mixing (Akzo Nobel brand)
- Inventory counting and control, crossdock shipping and receiving, incoming overseas container live unloads, processing and reconciliation
- Various sizes/dutied forklifts, Cherry picker, scissor lift, and pallet jack experienced
- Customer returns and credits
Private Security Guard
Merchants Security
05.2012 - 10.2012
- In-store security officer for contracted merchants and service providers
- Loss prevention, store surveillance and security also responsible for customer and staff safety
- Promoted to Corporal rank for clocking over 100 hours of Hurricane duty patrolling and keeping an entire shopping mall secure of trespassers and potential looters during Hurricane Issac’s stalled week-long churn over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast with only 3 other ranking supervising officers
- Upon leaving the company to return to my former employer, I was personally asked by the Head of the Firm to begin in-store training of all newly hired security officers recently certified for private security by the Louisiana State Board of Examiners in my spare time, as well as being in an exclusive handful of officers on call to work private or public special events and elite social functions
Warehouse & Asst Operations Supervisor; Inside Sales Coordinator
Keystone Automotive dba LKQ
01.2011 - 05.2012
- Inside collision part, paint, and PBE material sales to area collision centers and walk in customers
- Supervision of personnel and daily operations of a large crossdocking warehouse housing around a $2Mil inventory of aftermarket and some OE auto collision parts, paint, and body materials
- Support delivery and Hotshot driver
- Inhouse automotive paint mixing (Akzo Nobel brand)
- Inventory counting and control, crossdock shipping and receiving, incoming overseas container live unloads, processing and reconciliation
- Various sizes/dutied forklifts, Cherry picker, scissor lift, and pallet jack experienced
- Customer returns and credits
AdSeg/Maximum Security Corrections Officer I
Arkansas Dept of Corrections: Cummins Unit
09.2010 - 01.2011
- Graduated the 6 week Training Academy as a Squad Leader over other recruits in my class
- Swing shifts in a Maximum Security State Penitentiary as a supervisory authority over the segregated, more dangerous or troublesome inmates sentenced to prison
- Safety, protection, & security of the Institution, its employees, and inmates themselves
Education
Continued education - AP, Algebras, Composition classes for Radiology School Prerequisites
MidSouth Community College
West Memphis, AR01.2003
HS Diploma - Honors Classes throughout high school career
Marion High School
Marion, AR06.1997
Skills
- Warehouse organization
- Discrepancy investigations
- Stock replenishment
- Warehouse operations
- Inventory optimization
- Product identification
- Loss prevention
- Storage solutions
- Bin audits
- Stock control
- Packaging management
- Inventory control
- Stocking and organization
- Shipping and receiving
- Inventory organization
- Attention to detail
- Order picking and processing
- Cost reduction
- Heavy lifting
- Maintaining stock levels
- Forklift operation
- Material handling
- Basic math
- Quality procedures
- Asset protection expertise
- Tagging procedures
- Operations
- Item tagging
- Reliable and punctual
- Merchandising expertise
Timeline
Inventory Coordinator
Body Panels
10.2023 - 02.2025
Machine Operator
Shields Wood Products
03.2022 - 02.2023
GPM Investments (EZ Mart)
03.2020 - 12.2020
Key Carrier/Shift Supervisor
O’Reilly Auto Parts
12.2017 - 12.2019
Warehouse & Asst Operations Supervisor; Inside Sales Coordinator
Keystone Automotive dba LKQ
10.2012 - 11.2017
Private Security Guard
Merchants Security
05.2012 - 10.2012
Warehouse & Asst Operations Supervisor; Inside Sales Coordinator
Keystone Automotive dba LKQ
01.2011 - 05.2012
AdSeg/Maximum Security Corrections Officer I
Arkansas Dept of Corrections: Cummins Unit
09.2010 - 01.2011
Continued education - AP, Algebras, Composition classes for Radiology School Prerequisites
MidSouth Community College
HS Diploma - Honors Classes throughout high school career
Marion High School
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