Stores Assistant
Location: Lower Dicker, Hailsham,
Salary: Competitive, DOE
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Benefits: A competitive salary, private medical insurance, 25 days holiday, salary sacrifice company pension, life insurance, a state-of-the-art working environment!
Job Objective
To provide immediate and proactive support to all cells and production areas, ensuring material replenishment direct to the Point of Use (POU), with minimal disruption to the flow.
To pick and kit WOs as required and transact accordingly.
To ensure that goods are booked in, processed and dispatched on-time and in a safe and efficient manner.
To ensure, thorough daily perpetual cycle counting that inventory levels are maintained in line with company targets, with stock accuracy greater than 98%.
Key Accountabilities
Supply of materials to the POU
- To react to line signals and replenish two bin line-side POU stocking locations, transferring stock from either the large, small or cell Purchased Parts Market (PPM).
- To perform any decanting operations deemed necessary to present material at the POU in a ready to use state.
- To carry out any transportation and associated work relating to department processes.
- To react to the replenishment signals of the cell PPM, pulling stock from Stores as required.
- To react to the replenishment signals of internal kanbans and pull from the supermarkets, delivering to the POU.
- To pick and kit WOs accurately and in a timely manner and deliver to the various routing locations and POUs
Maintaining and improving the Supply Chain
- To assist in routinely maintaining and monitoring the POU two-bin system and the Curtain-effects, notifying whenever there it is clear that there is either too much or too little stock being kept in the 'bins'.
- To assist in routinely maintaining and monitoring the PPMs, informing the Material Control Lead whenever there is either too much or too little stock being kept.
Offline work to support the Cells
- To assist with the 5S activities and be proactive in achieving the company's 5S goals.
- To supply additional support when necessary, including helping out to construct the cells.
Receiving, storing, controlling, moving and dispatching stock
- To receive, unload, book onto the system, put away and move materials as required.
- To dispatch product, coordinating the packers, assisting with loading of the lorries and carrying out all the necessary paperwork and transactions.
- To take ownership of stock control within Stores and the PPMs, ensuring that FIFO is maintained.
- To ensure that stock is appropriately secured.
- To transact all appropriate stock movements on the Inventory management system (AX) and maintain stock accuracy in each location to greater than 98% accordingly.
- To perform and co-ordinate daily perpetual cycle counting.
- To pick, deliver and transact work orders in a timely manner (where Pull systems from the POU do not exist).
- To prepare, transact and arrange collection of any materials for external suppliers.
- To prepare, make-up, transact and deliver spares kits and other spares and component orders as required.
- To file all appropriate documentation, such as packing notes, requisition slips and work orders.
General
- To ensure all material movements are made safely, with due care and attention to oneself, others, products and fittings.
- To support and participate in the 5S programme, in particular within the Stores and PPM zones.
- To carry out any other duties as requested by the Material Control Lead or Managers
Essential Skills and Experience
- Experience working in a Stores and/or Material handler role
- To have a generally high level of fitness
- To be computer literate, with basic skills in Outlook, Word and Excel
- To possess experience in the use of an ERP system for inventory management
- To understand the need for safe manual handling principles
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience working in a pressure team environment
- Ability to understand and develop efficient systems and working practices
- Ability to operate cutting equipment
- Forklift driver's license is desirable
- A working knowledge of Lean principles, such as 5S, would be a distinct advantage
- Ideally to have experience in working with kanbans, DLF and VOMI
Qualifications
- GCSE/O level equivalent English and Maths
A good level of written and verbal communication skills with knowledge of export procedures (nice to have)
Personal
- High levels of motivation, enthusiasm.
- Capable of working well in a team environment.
- Good at listening to and following instructions.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Willing to contribute to the overall improvement and success of the business, working practices
- A positive attitude, co-operative, willing to comply with company policies and procedures and work constructively with colleagues
- Willing to commit to our core values
TPA are a specialist recruitment agency recruiting on behalf of our client. If you think you are a close fit for this position, please apply and we will also register you for any upcoming positions that may be suitable.