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The Engineering Stores Inventory Specialist responsibility is to manage the day-to-day transaction of spare parts requests, pricing, purchasing and goods receipts for all spare parts and maintenance consumables received into the Engineering stores.
What you will do for us
- Sourcing of replacement spare parts and negotiation of pricing with various vendors and suppliers.
- Physically receiving boxes of delivered to site spare parts and putting them in the correct inventory location.
- Setting up of new spare parts material on SAP and regularly updating materials numbers with current prices and reorder levels
- Receiving & filling/saving inventory quotes on a weekly basis
- Processing of Goods issues /new materials / master data etc
- Co-ordinating with accounts payable on issues that may arise with blocked invoices, freight charges etc
- Maintaining inventory accuracy.
- Coordination and completion of monthly cycle count and updating of system.
- Co-ordinating the return of equipment for repair and refurbishment on a weekly basis
- Updating monthly metrics at month end.
Communication Complexities
- Maintenance Technicians – Spare Parts requests and queries.
- Production associates. Production Consumables requests and queries.
- Warehouse associates. Delivery of goods.
- Wider management – mainly Operations and Engineering management. Queries on spare parts and new equipment set up.
- Engineers. Queries on spare parts and new equipment set up.
- Engineering and Finance Senior Managers. Cycle Counts – new inventory requests.
- Finance associates. Month end close out, cycle counts, payment queries
- CAD and E&Y Auditors. Audit process
- Accounts payable in Accounts Payable. Account payment queries
Functional Competencies:
- Ability to assess a wide range of circumstances involving technical requests, vendor queries regarding engineering components.
- Ability to cancel & return incorrect parts and deliveries to vendors.
- Problems requiring decisions between technicians and suppliers regarding any potential late deliveries of components.
- Problems solve errors on cycle counts.
Previous Work Experience & Skills
- National Certificate or Diploma in an Engineering or Business.
- Previous experience in food based, pharmaceutical or high-speed manufacturing environment is an advantage.
- Good knowledge of Word, Excel PowerPoint etc.
- Some technical knowledge of engineering components to deal with vendors on specifics.
- Good knowledge of Word, Excel PowerPoint etc
- Experience in Engineering stores operation and understanding of equipment and the workings would be an advantage.
- Good working knowledge of SAP and in particular Material management and Preventative maintenance would be an advantage
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