**6 Month Fixed Term Contract** We're looking for an experienced Stores Manager to join our team on a 6-month fixed-term contract to provide cover during a period of long-term absence. You'll be responsible for the safe, efficient and compliant management of stores operations, ensuring materials are available to support production while maintaining high levels of inventory accuracy, customer service and operational performance. Working closely with Production, Planning, Procurement and Quality teams, you'll play a key role in ensuring materials flow efficiently through the business and that our stores operation delivers the highest standards of compliance, accuracy and support.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading Stores Operations
- Managing the day-to-day operation of the stores function
- Ensuring inventory is accurately received, stored, controlled and issued
- Maintaining efficient goods-in, storage and kitting processes
- Supporting production through effective material availability and prioritisation
- Ensuring traceability and material control requirements are consistently met
- Inventory Management
- Maintaining high levels of inventory accuracy across all stock locations
- Leading cycle counting and stock take activities
- Investigating inventory discrepancies and implementing corrective actions
- Monitoring KPIs and driving continuous improvement initiativesli>
- Supporting the reduction of excess and obsolete inventory
- Supporting Manufacturing Performance
- Ensuring materials are released and kitted to production on time
- Maintaining Kanban and line-side replenishment systems
- Identifying and escalating material shortages and inventory risks
- Working closely with Planning and Procurement to support production schedules
- Leading and Developing People
- Leading, coaching and supporting the stores team
- Setting clear expectations and standards
- Conducting regular one-to-ones and performance reviews
- Developing a multi-skilled and flexible team
- Promoting a culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement
- Safety, Quality and Compliance
- Maintaining a safe, organised and efficient warehouse environment
- Driving 5S standards and good housekeeping practices
- Supporting audits and corrective action activities
- Ensuring compliance with quality, health and safety, and security requirements
Desirable Experience
- Electronics or engineering manufacturing environment
- Defence, aerospace or other highly regulated industries
- Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement methodologies
Key Skills
- Leads through accountability and clear standards
- Builds capability and develops people
- Is organised, data-driven and detail-focused
- Uses facts and root cause analysis to solve problems
- Can effectively collaborate across multiple departments
- Challenges inefficiencies and drives improvement
- Takes ownership and delivers results
Other Requirements
- Security Cleared (SC) or ability to obtain clearance.
What We Can Offer You
- Flexible working practices – we work a 9-day fortnight, offer flexitime, and work a half day Friday 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) with the option to buy up to 5 additional days
- Private healthcare
- Health cash plan – cash back for everyday health expenses
- Additional benefits including access to 24/7 remote GP services, physiotherapy consultations and gym discounts
- Pension scheme with 6% employer contributions
- Life assurance – 4 x annual salary
- Reward and recognition platform
- Discount platform – retail, leisure, gym discounts and more
- Employee assistance programme with access to confidential counselling services
- Support for further training and education
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Spectrum Control combines engineering expertise, innovation and manufacturing excellence to enable mission-critical solutions. Designed to solve complex problems in signal modulation and transmission, Spectrum Control solutions enable high quality product performance in the military and government, space, commercial, aerospace, security, medical, industrial and communications industries. Through proven experience and innovation, Spectrum Control delivers reliable solutions for the most rugged environments in the world – and beyond. Our team works to understand each customer’s needs at every level, which leads to long-term partnerships with our customers that transcend transactions and projects, helping to drive ongoing value at all levels of an organization. Spectrum Control operates by the following guiding principles: safety, integrity, respect, ethics, trust and continuous improvement. Spectrum Control is dedicated to delivering highly-engineered, reliable products that help save, enhance and protect lives. The company employs a secure, trusted, innovative, empowered and resilient environment to collaborate across the organization to deliver impactful results to our customers. Founded in 1981, Spectrum Control brought together the power of several trusted brands and formed a uniquely capable partner for RF/microwave, electromagnetic, and security solutions. Over the past 70 years, the company’s engineers and technologists have led the way in creating high-quality solutions for demanding environments everywhere. Today, Spectrum Control's team includes 1,300+ people working across 14 design/manufacturing centers in North America and Europe.
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