Stock Administrator - Hoyland, Barnsley

SMS Plc.; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy solutions provider in Barnsley is looking for a Stock Administrator to ensure stock system accuracy and support warehouse functions. Responsibilities include creating orders, updating systems, and collaborating with teams to manage stock levels efficiently. Ideal candidates should have strong knowledge of stock administration, Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and be able to thrive in a busy environment.

Benefits

25 personal holiday days per year

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

24/7 employee assistance service

Health plan with various benefits

Life Insurance (4 x annual salary)

Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary)

Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a Warehouse environment.
• Ability to work with others and take initiative.
• Familiarity with daily schedules.

Responsibilities

• Ensure stock system accuracy and reporting.
• Work closely with warehouse and transport functions.
• Create engineer orders with speed and accuracy.
• Update and maintain relevant systems and spreadsheets.
• Liaise daily with departments to coordinate operations.
• Carry out stock checks with the warehouse team.

Skills

Knowledge of Stock/Admin skills

Strong Microsoft and Excel skills

Ability to work in a busy environment

Job description

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Why choose us?

Choosing to work for SMS means choosing to make a difference.We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone. Through our range of innovative energy solutions, we are delivering the future of smart energy – working closely with private and public sector partners we are playing a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK economy by 2050.

What's in it for you?

• 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell)
• Enhanced Maternity leave. Paternity and Adoption leave.
• 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.
• Simply Health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments like optical, dental and physio treatments. Discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.
• Life Insurance (4 x annual salary)
• Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary)
• Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.

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What's the role?

Reporting to the Stock Team Leader, the Stock Administrator is responsible for ensuring replenishment and stock system accuracy and stock reporting activity. This role will require good communication and close working with warehouse/transport functions to ensure timely and accurate replenishment of stock.

The stock administrator will work alongside operations to support engineers via email/phone.

The stock administrator will create engineer orders, showing both speed and accuracy.

The stock administrator will work across both forward and reverse functions dependant on requirement.

Day to day maintenance of relevant systems and raising of documentation and reports to allow efficient processing.

Including daily schedules, POD, communication to other departments, chasing up collections, dispatches, reporting any anomalies, etc. Liaising closely with the warehouse team in ensuring all requests are ready for dispatch as per the working schedule.

Working 40 hours per week. The warehouse operates from 06:00-16:00. Shifts are 06:00-14:30 and 07:30-1600.

Key responsibilities:

• Update and maintain relevant systems & spreadsheets relating to the Reverse Logistics Operations (Removed Assets & Triage).
• Maintain high standards of data input, adjustments and reporting to enable system integrity relating to the Reverse Logistics Operations (Removed Assets & Triage).
• Liaising daily with the Glasgow and Doncaster department on collections, 3rd parties request, storage, communications etc.
• Assist the Stock Team Leader in carry out stock checks at month end working with the warehouse team, in ensuring all data is collated and passed on accordingly.
• Reporting to and working with the stock team to ensure physical stockholding across all SMS locations is accurately reflected within the stock system.
• Working with all Warehouse depots on stock levels, looking at short falls and ensuring stock levels are replenished to fulfil orders.
• Creating picking lists for the warehouse using information from many sources.
• Ordering specialist stock items, tracking delivery dates and communicating with other business areas to minimise the impact of any stock shortages.
• Take initiative and comfortably respond to any queries, working closely with other members of the stock team to resolve, and escalating if necessary
• Liaising daily with customers, planning and scheduling teams, sub-contractors and transport & warehouse functions.
• Using excel for booking in meter returns, monitoring stock updates, performing stock movements and maintaining a detailed tracker of pallet records.
• Working with third party owners and booking in for outbound collections and deliveries of third party owned meters.
• Creating picking and removal lists for the warehouse, using information from various system sources.
• Ownership of checking meters once booked into the warehouse.
• Ad-hoc duties that supports both the function and the business as and when requested
• To step up into any role to cover any holiday cover, sickness if required

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

• Knowledge of Stock/Admin/ skills, working within a Warehouse environment, able to work with others and own initiative, working in accordance to daily schedules.
• Strong Microsoft and excel skills
• Able to work in a busy and demanding environment without sacrificing quality or breaching H&S Rules and Regulations

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