Engineering Stores Inventory Specialist

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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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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