Job Title: Stores Coordinator

Location: Coleford, Gloucestershire

Company: Leading Manufacturing Facility

Hours: 9am - 5pm (Monday to Friday, Full Time)

Salary: £30k - £35k (Dependant on Experience)

Talento is recruiting for our client who is a leading Manufacturer based in Coleford for a Stores Coordinator for their engineering department. The Stores Coordinator manages the equipment consumables and spares parts store to ensure timely availability of consumables and parts to preform planned periodic maintenance interventions and repairs.

The Engineering Store Coordinator is a key stakeholder in ensuring equipment and plant reliability.

Key tasks & Activities

Stock Control

• Undertakes formal stock control procedures and ensures that stock levels are maintained
• Ensures deliveries are properly checked, recorded and stored, reporting any identified damages and discrepancies
• Deals with internal and external enquiries regarding orders and purchases
• Ensures all stores requests are processed accurately and in a timely manner
• Prepares, maintains and operates manual stock records
• Monitors and escalates to management deterioration of service levels from suppliers including long lead-times, delays, lack of availability or obsolescence issues
• Manages rebuild/refurbishment of parts internally or externally
• Disposes of damaged or worn parts that cannot be repaired

Periodic Maintenance Preparation

• Based on planned periodic maintenance agendas, verifies parts are available and prepares parts kits to perform the planned maintenance interventions

SAP

• Performs procurement and ordering of stock and non-stock maintenance parts
• Prepares purchase orders for vendors
• Creates, maintains and develops stock control systems
• Administers MRP and procedures
• Continual maintenance of the physical consumables and parts and their corresponding records in SAP, ensuring the records accurately reflect the levels of stock in the store room at all times

Communication

• Liaises with Management, production and technical departments to ensure effective communication
• Reacts, prioritises and communicates to suppliers when machines parts are required urgently
• Conducts and attends meetings with suppliers as and when required
• Stores development
• Improves stores processes and the utilisation of inventory management and stock locations

Health and Safety

• Initiates safe working practices, in regards to the control of substances that are hazardous to health, and to ensure all the relevant data sheets are present and correct
• Implements the company 5s philosophy, ensuring the stores and associated areas are cleaned regularly and that contents are securely and safely stored

Background and Experience

• 5+ years of experience
• Must have worked in a stores department within any industry
• Experience of working in an ever changing, fast paced environment.
• Manufacturing /FMCG advantageous

Technical Skills

• Good computer skills and experience in any ERP system (preferably SAP)
• Technical (mechanical or electrical) experience would be advantageous
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically proficient in Excel
• Must be analytical and good with numbers
• Confident in using multiple systems/channels

Interpersonal Skills

• Excellent organisational and supervisory skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to find solutions and problem solve
• Build strong relationships with the team
• Flexibility and reliability are essential for this position.
• Confident communicator at all levels

If this sounds like an opportunity you'd be interested in, please reach out to us at Talento Group for a chat about this exciting opportunity!