Stores Person

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for a stores person to organise and coordinate an efficient and cost-effective Engineering Stores. To manage all requisitioning and purchasing requirements for the Engineering department by selecting best supplier in terms of price, quality and service whilst ensuring the service to vendors ensures a faultless financial transaction. Ensuring stock accuracy against SAP.

To support Cardiff site vision, to be the home of operational excellence and the customer’s first choice soft drinks manufacturer.

Working Hours

This is a Monday- Friday role

Principal Responsibilities

• Raising Purchase Orders for stock / non stock items

• Goods receipting PO’s

• Coordinate the repair / return of engineering spares

• Accountable for Control of Spend on stock items

• Monitoring & reporting Engineering R&R budget

• Control weekly PI counts, investigate stock discrepancies.

• Updating and monitoring KPI’s

• Manipulate SAP data in Excel, pivot tables, vlookup, graphs etc

• Constantly challenge stock levels and set stock levels

• Control of SAP master data

• Source best practice ways of storing items

• Continually monitor suppliers’ prices, service, and quality to ensure best deals are obtained

• Team member responsible for audits & reporting to business

• Select best supplier for spares and service, linked to Group Purchasing

• Ensure purchased items conform to legislative, moral, and European directive requirements

• Embrace a culture of safe behaviour and contractors’ health and safety in the store’s areas

• Support a culture enhancing behavioural awareness to reduce accidents and near misses

• Co-ordinate between engineering and suppliers to ensure best service is always maintained

• Actively challenge vendors / suppliers to minimise the effect of parked / blocked invoices

• Challenge all spares / service requests to ascertain need

• Adhere to stock reduction plan

• Complete relevant documentation / Record data in required formats

• Reporting data to required channels including anomalies to manager

• Undertake the training of others as required

• Attendance at meetings, at various locations

• Contribute to and help implement continuous improvement, to enhance quality, safety, efficiency, and waste reduction

• Ensure systems for stores to minimise inventory levels and working capital

• Communicate daily with Engineering Management to ensure parts available for planned maintenance, engineering, and production priorities

• Liaise daily / hourly with colleagues within and across function regarding planning / production matters

• Communicate daily with engineering to ensure planned maintenance, engineering and production priorities are considered

General Responsibilities

Understand and take an active role in lean manufacturing work practices including 5S

You must exercise reasonable skill and care for the health and safety of yourself and other people at work and you must not interfere with or obstruct anything provided in the interests of health and safety at work.

The incumbent should demonstrate behaviours which are in line with the site values & help to improve the Quality, Safety & Environmental culture.

Support the business in working towards delivering our ethical trading and human rights vision.

When engaging with internal and external stakeholders (such as consumers, customers or suppliers) maximise any potential opportunities to communicate Princes’ ethical trade and human rights approach.

These are the key daily tasks, not a comprehensive list of all tasks undertaken by the job holder. Flexibility is required by the business & this will be agreed with the individual’s line manager.

• Effective Communication

• Working with Others

• Experience of working in FMCG Manufacturing

Skills

• SAP knowledge and experience – essential.

• IT – Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Packages

• Communication

Role Requirements

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