Engineering Materials Coordinator

PRINCES; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Princes in Cardiff is seeking an Engineering Materials Coordinator to run a cost‑effective material inventory for the engineering function and to ensure stock accuracy against SAP. The role supports the site vision of operational excellence and positions the engineering department as a core driver of reliability and efficiency.

You will communicate daily with Engineering Management to plan maintenance, monitor stock levels, and assist with cost reduction initiatives while ensuring compliance

Qualifications

• Stock management for engineering stores.
• Stock accuracy ensured against SAP.
• Audits and reporting in engineering stores.

Responsibilities

• Communicate daily with Engineering Management to ensure parts available for planned maintenance, engineering and production priorities.
• Control of Engineering stock items.
• Monitor budget spend and challenge stock levels.
• Assist with cost reduction projects and supplier selection.
• Ensure items conform to safety, legality and directives.

Skills

Stock control

Communication

Audits & reporting

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Details: Engineering Materials Coordinator

Full details of the job.

Vacancy Name

Vacancy Name Engineering Materials Coordinator

Employment Type

Employment Type Permanent

Country

Country United Kingdom

Location

Location Cardiff

Business Area

Business Area Operations

Workplace Type

Workplace Type Onsite

About Princes

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Role Description

We are actively looking for a colleague 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.

This role supports the overall site delivery and engineering department to ensure quality, legality, food safety, brand integrity and culture is driven and compliant.

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.

Role Requirements