Senior Stores Officer

5 Star Recruitment; Preston; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

5 Star Recruitment is seeking a Stores/Warehouse operative based near Preston to manage main stores and surrounding depots in Lancashire. You will place orders by phone and email, receive deliveries, stock items, and support workshops with parts.

Key tasks include stocking, stock control, liaising with technicians, and ensuring safe, efficient operations. A forklift license and a valid UK driving license are preferred; NVQ in stores is a plus.

Qualifications

• Educated to GCSE standard with passes in English and Maths.
• Full UK valid driver’s license or working towards within 12 months.
• Forklift truck license or willing to train for one.

Responsibilities

• Order stock and parts via phone and email.
• Receive and book in goods; rotate stock.
• Unload/load vehicles using MH equipment and forklift.
• Assist technicians and supervisors with parts and information from suppliers.
• Log tooling and maintain stock records.

Skills

Forklift license

Team player

Communication

Telephone & email handling

Lifting 20kg

Education

GCSE English

GCSE Maths

Full UK Driving Licence

NVQ Stores/Warehouse

Computer/Inventory systems

Tools

Microsoft Office

Inventory systems

Job description

The purpose of this position is to operate and maintain the main fleet stores and the surrounding depots located within Lancashire. Primarily based at Bamber Bridge Preston but providing support to outlying depots located in Lancashire.

The stores role's primary functions consist of parts and stock ordering via telephone and email, receiving and booking in of goods, stock rotation, identifying and locating of stock in the stores. Dealing with account queries from depots, suppliers, and internal accounts. Unload/load vehicles of goods and parts using MH equipment and forklift truck.

Speak with Technicians and supervisors with regards to parts ordering and obtaining technical information from suppliers and suppling tools from stock. Logging of tooling issued to workshop and log tools back into stock.

Covering aspects of colleague's and manager's job roles during periods of absence.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Obtaining spare parts at the best price from suppliers
• Accepting parts deliveries and checking off stock against orders placed Issuing stock to jobs and remedying problem issues
• Stock taking of parts Provide input and feedback into day-to-day stores operations and stores issues.
• Liaise with Technicians and supervisors, keeping them updated on parts availability and progress.
• Book waste items for collection when needed
• Participate in teams calls when requested/needed Stores/ work area housekeeping ensuring are clean work area at all times
• Ability and willingness to be a flexible, pro-active and effective team member and work under limited supervision
• Undertaking duties in relation to building security, health and safety- including opening and closing routines and key holding
• Covering aspects of colleague's and manager's job roles during periods of absence

Other

We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in the way we deliver services to the community and in our employment arrangements. We expect all employees to understand and promote this policy in their work.

Health and safety

All employees have a responsibility for their own health and safety and that of others when carrying out their duties and must help us to apply our general statement of health and safety policy.

Customer Focused

We put our customers' needs and expectations at the heart of all that we do. We expect our employees to have a full understanding of those needs and expectations so that we can provide high quality, appropriate services at all times.

Our Values

We expect all our employees to demonstrate and promote our values:

Supportive

We are supportive of our customers and colleagues, recognising their contributions and making the best of their strengths to enable our communities to flourish.

We deliver the best services we possibly can, always looking for creative ways to do things better, putting the customer at the heart of our thinking, and being ambitious and focused on how we can deliver the best services now and in the future.

Respectful

We treat colleagues, customers and partners with respect, listening to their views, empathising and valuing their diverse needs and perspectives, to be fair, open and honest in all that we do.

Collaborative

We listen to, engage with, learn from and work with colleagues, partners and customers to help achieve the best outcomes for everyone.

A = Application form, I = Interview

Qualifications

Educated to GCSE standard with passes in English and Maths
(Grade C/level 4 or above)D A/I
Possession of or the ability to demonstrate the capability to
gain, relevant qualifications, licences or equivalent where
applicable.D A
Full UK valid driver's License or working towards obtaining
within 12 months of employment start date.E A/I
Forklift truck License or willing to train for one D A/I
Stores/ warehouse qualification NVQ etc D A

Experience

• Previous relevant stores experience or the ability to
  demonstrate the competence to carry out the jobD A/I
• Stores experience covering the following:
  checking deliveries and putting stock away, goods receipting,
  stock transfers, stock issuing, stock checking of parts, creatingand placing purchase orders, collecting/ delivering parts,Setting up new part numbersD A/I
• Dealing with invoice/account queries, setting up new suppliers D A/I Excellent telephone manner and use of email for ordering parts D A/I
• Experience of computer systems and their application In stores/parts Operations D A/I Good ICT skills (using Microsoft office programs) D A/I
• Ability to lift products to 20kg D A/I Awareness of health and safety at work D A/I
• Flexible in your approach to starting early and finishing late and working overtime D A/I

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to communicate efficiently, good telephone manner E A/I
• Ability to work as member of a team E A/I
• Ability to work with only limited supervision E A/I
• Knowledge of car, commercial, plant and fire equipment spares D A/I
• Forklift truck driving inside and outside a workshop in all weather conditions D A/I

Other (including special requirements)

1. Commitment to Equality and Diversity E I

2. Commitment to Health and Safety E I

3. Display the LCC values and behaviours at all times and actively promote them in others E I