Materials Controller

Overview

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business. Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

A bit about the role

Our Material Controller is core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, reporting to the Logistics and Materials Manager, you’ll be responsible ensuring material requirements to service scheduled demand is achieved to support overall delivery of the Group Corporate Plan. You will have the opportunity to use your people and general administrative skills to provide clear site direction to the main manufacturing operations.

Working closely with your counterparts in planning; production; procurement; design and logistics, implementing effective and efficient materials processes and procedures to ensure:

• Call-off of stock materials aligning to predetermined stock levels
• Scheduling of materials in line with design take off and production demands
• Raising and expediting purchase orders in line with material demands
• Ensure that all stock transactions are captured and completed in real time by the end of each day
• Monitoring, closing and investigating production works orders and associated BOMs through company ERP system
• Produce and monitor departments KPIs through the ability to manipulate various forms of information and depict in Excel, ensuring delivery of performance, quality and productivity to agreed targets and suppliers SLA’s.
• Optimise utilisation of MRP planning control systems and ensure customer requirements are met, as well as ensuring zero stock outs.
• Develop and implement appropriate data monitoring and measurement to ensure effective and efficient stock management practices and identify areas of continuous improvement.
• Carry out regular cycle counts and quarterly full stock takes, investigating differences and escalating to Materials Manager where appropriate.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external project teams and contractors to maximise success of KPI’s within your areas of responsibility.
• Maximise the benefits of and deliver continuous improvement to current business processes.

Essential technical expertise

• Experience in manufacturing or construction preferable but not essential.
• Demonstrate ability for budgetary and planning within a manufacturing environment.
• Provide evidence of materials and stock control.
• Demonstrate ability for prioritising workload.
• Computer literate with good excel skills.
• Excellent communication and organisation skills.

What we offer

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with an opportunity for flexible working.

30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need you, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure. We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing

Industries

• Construction

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