Engineering Materials Coordinator

Title: Engineering materials co-ordinator

Job Purpose
To run an efficient and cost-effective material inventory delivery for the engineering function. Ensuring stock accuracy against SAP.

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 08.45 until 17.00 position and is office based

Principal Responsibilities

• Communicate daily with Engineering Management to ensure parts available for planned maintenance, engineering, and production priorities.
• Control of Engineering stock items
• Monitoring of R+M budget – daily spend sheet
• Constantly challenge stock levels
• Source best practise ways of storing items.
• Team member responsible for audits & reporting to business on Engineering stores area.
• To assist with company cost reduction projects.
• Select best supplier for spares and service.
• 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 minimise accidents and near misses
• Challenge all spares/service requests to ascertain need.
• Complete relevant documentation / Record data in required formats
• Reporting data to required channels including anomalies to the line manager
• Undertake the training of others as required
• Attendance at meetings, at various locations, as required by the line Manager
• 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
• Liaise daily/hourly with colleagues within and across function regarding planning/production matters
• Controlling refurbishment of used parts for repair.
• Assisting other departments as and when required – material inventories / consumables
• Communicate daily with engineering to ensure planned maintenance, engineering and production priorities are considered

General Responsibilities

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.

Development:

• To manage all requisitioning and purchasing requirements for the Engineering dept
• Selecting best supplier in terms of price, quality and service whilst ensuring the service to vendors ensures a faultless financial transaction.
• Continually monitor suppliers’ prices, service, and quality.
• Reduction of stock holding

Knowledge

• Effective Communication
• Working with Others
• Experience of working in FMCG Manufacturing

Skills

• SAP knowledge and experience – desired.
• IT - Word Processing, understanding Spreadsheet
• Communication