Lead Materials Controller

Atomic Weapons Establishment; Aldermaston; On-site; GBP 31,500 - 38,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day working fortnight

Pension scheme

Family friendly policies

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Discounts

Paid time off for volunteering

Job summary

Atomic Weapons Establishment is seeking a Lead Material Controller to manage material and stock control across warehousing, inventory and logistics. The role emphasizes leadership of a team, ensuring safe and compliant material movements and strong liaison with internal customers and suppliers.

The position offers responsibilities for process improvement, audit readiness, and delivering accurate data analysis. Onsite work is expected at Aldermaston with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of material controllers in warehousing and stock control.
• Proven ability to coach, mentor and develop staff.
• Strong understanding of material control processes, goods in, warehousing and distribution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of material controllers across warehousing and stock control.
• Ensure cyclic counts and audits align with plans and outages.
• Maintain safe, secure and compliant material movements and documentation.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Team development

Material management

Job description

Lead Material Controller

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Starting from £35,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight.

Ready to play your part? The Lead Material Controller will provide material management across warehousing, inventory, asset and stock control.

At AWE, it’s not just a job, it’s far more than that. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part?

Key Accountabilities

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of material Controllers to effect material control operations - goods in processing, warehousing, distribution and verification activities.
• Management of Logistics and Material programme deliverables such as ensuring that all cycle count activities are initiated in accordance with the audit plan, look ahead and deconflicted against all other activities and Facility outages.
• Material Control interface and logistics liaison with customers and suppliers in all aspects of logistics and material management activities accountable for.
• Deliver team accountability boards encouraging full participation and collation of activities to support the business material health in readiness to deliver the program and/or meet operational needs.
• Actively deputise for Material Seniors/Managers including the participation in management meetings presenting status updates and reports on the health of material control within each business area taking on board areas of concern for escalation.
• Support Group Leader Non-Nuclear Material Operations and Logistics Capability Manager in any ad hoc data analysing / metric development / presentation material that is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that the standards of peoples training and competence for the safe operation of tasks within the area are met and encouraging staff development through coaching and mentoring.
• Ensure that movement of any material is conducted in a safe and secure manner complying with process for transportation nationally, internationally and dangerous goods moves.
• Maximise stores/warehouse layout to improve efficiency and conformance to ISO requirements.
• Maintain a tidy and safe stores/warehouse area in accordance with company standards (Safe, Secure & Clean).
• Support each business area through knowledge, systems available and other subject matter expertise for the identification of components.
• Ensure that all localised documentation relevant to the workplace such as risk assessments, safe systems of work (SSOW) ensuring compliance with safety, security and legislative requirements is maintained.
• Management of Company vehicles (fleet) within area of responsibility - transport liaison officer (TLO) including the vehicle refuelling point.
• Management of POL Station including monitoring and fuel usage levels (where applicable).
• Develop verification/cycle count activities in the wider controllable asset arena such as IT Hardware Assets, Personal Inventory and Fixed Assets (Capitalised).
• Maintain a sound auditable trail of all logistics and material control activities to relevant standards and investigations into discrepancies and evidence of resolution.
• Actively participate in audit activity ensuring that all relevant areas are ready for scrutiny, deconfliction of operations and facility outages and that all involved are communicated to effectively.
• Supporting the disposition process through sentencing ensuring that formal process is adhered to and that accurate record keeping on corporate systems as items are dispatched for disposal.
• Respond to customer requests in a polite and helpful manner maintaining professionalism at all times as expected within the employee blueprint.
• Day to day Management of warehousing operations ensuring that all inventory and stock assigned space, including any off-site contracted locations, is managed appropriately, segregating and separating goods as necessary.
• Leadership of Material Specialists delivering a range of activities supporting Non-Nuclear Material Operations ensuring that they have a clear path of direction and deliver outputs on time and to a high standard of accuracy.

Work hard, be rewarded: We ask a lot and set the bar high because our work truly matters. In return we offer balance, with award winning benefits including:

• 9-day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

Due to the classified nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site at AWE Aldermaston.

Important things you need to know:

You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.

We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.

Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work.

We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.

We are at the start of a once in a generation – possibly two generations – programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK’s continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects – some of which have never been done before.

Find out more on our website.

Service Leavers, Veterans and Reservists. We are an Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award Employer. Visit the Service Leavers page to find out more.

Early Careers: To register your interest in our Apprentice, Graduate and undergraduate, please visit Early Careers.