Role overview
- ID: 2024-6518
- Entity: Vistry
- Region: Vistry West London
- Department: Build
- Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Job Location: Kingston, London
- Date Posted: 08.11.2024
We have a new opportunity for a Materials & Logistics Controller to join our team within Visry West London, on site at Cambridge Road Estate, Kingston.
As our Materials Controller you will be responsible for scheduling material, calling off material to the build schedules and site progress. Assist the site team in ensuring that site safety and security requirements are adhered to, while ensuring that all actions comply with the Company's Health, Safety and Environmental policy.
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Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you...
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Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
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Agile working possible (dependent on role)
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Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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Private Healthcare and Dental Insurance
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Competitive contributory pension scheme
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Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
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Share incentive schemes.
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Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
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In return, what we would like from you...
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Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
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Word / excel literate.
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Be able to demonstrate genuine interest in working in the construction industry.
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Knowledge in materials or build sequences.
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Resourceful and capable of using own initiative.
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Excellent time keeping and attendance record.
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Able to work effectively and safely under pressure.
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Customer focused.
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Able to multitask.
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A commitment to work as required to meet the needs of the business.
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A willingness to attend site out of hours to deal with emergency situations.
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Able to travel to different sites if required.
Desirable -
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Minimum 2 years' experience as a Materials Controller/Forklift Operator or trades person
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More about the Materials Controller role...
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Assist in site safety by ensuring that the site is operating in accordance with health and safety requirements. Report and breaches immediately, and action if appropriate.
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Provide basic first aid if required, providing the appropriate training has been received.
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Call off trackers to be completed and managed. Forwarding information up chain.
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Work alongside the site management in order to call off / schedule material on time for site install requirements.
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Minimise and loss or damage to materials. Managing costs of additional / lost or damaged material
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Check and receive material deliveries in accordance with material strategies and the site requirements.
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Ensure that materials are protected in accordance with the site material storage strategy.
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Ensure material installed are protected in accordance with the company's protection matrix.
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Maintain site presentation including tidiness and organisation of storage areas, clearing general debris and ensure compliance with the housekeeping policy.
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ensure that health, safety, and environmental requirements are adhered to, and compliance is achieved.
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Ensure material segregation in accordance with the site waste management plan.
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Waste and sustainability audits to be carried out on a weekly basis.
Finally, let's tell you a bit more about us...
We're Vistry Group, the UK's leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they're needed most.
You're probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there's nowhere better to build your career. We're proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.
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Benefits
Agile Working
Offers a flexible way of working.
Annual Leave
Enjoy 28 days' holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.
Pension with Legal & General
Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.
Volunteer Days
With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.
Why Vistry
Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.