Technical Parts Coordinator

Miller’s Recruitment; Ovingdean; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

City & Guilds accredited training

Company Pension

Holiday entitlement – 24 days + bank

Regular staff events

Job summary

Miller’s Vanguard is seeking a highly organised Technical Parts Coordinator to support engineering and service teams. You will identify and source parts, raise requisitions, and ensure engineers have materials to deliver excellent service.

This role suits someone with a technical or engineering background who enjoys problem-solving and coordinating activities with suppliers and engineers. Work is on site with exposure to a busy field service environment.

Qualifications

• Strong organisational and administrative skills are essential.
• Ability to read and understand technical documentation and parts lists is advantageous.
• Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving abilities are required.

Responsibilities

• Assist engineers in identifying spare parts, components and materials.
• Research parts using drawings, manuals, supplier catalogues and manufacturer information.
• Raise purchase requisitions and support the procurement process.
• Liaise with suppliers to obtain quotations, lead times and technical information.
• Track requisitions and orders to ensure timely delivery.
• Maintain accurate records of parts, suppliers and purchasing activity.
• Support inventory and stock control activities.
• Collaborate with engineering, service and stores teams to ensure parts availability.
• Identify opportunities to standardise parts and reduce costs.
• Assist in resolving parts-related issues and supply shortages.

Skills

Organisational skills

Administrative skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Office

ERP/MRP systems

Job description

We are looking for a highly organised Technical Parts Coordinator to support our engineering and service teams. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying and sourcing parts, raising purchase requisitions, and ensuring engineers have the materials they need to deliver excellent service to our customers.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone with a technical or engineering background who enjoys problem-solving, coordinating activities, and working closely with suppliers and engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist engineers in identifying spare parts, components, and materials required for service, maintenance, and repair activities.
• Research parts using technical drawings, manuals, supplier catalogues, and manufacturer information.
• Raise purchase requisitions and support the procurement process.
• Liaise with suppliers to obtain quotations, lead times, and technical information.
• Track requisitions and orders to ensure timely delivery.
• Maintain accurate records of parts, suppliers, and purchasing activity.
• Support inventory and stock control activities.
• Work closely with engineering, service, and stores teams to ensure parts availability.
• Identify opportunities to standardise parts and reduce costs.
• Assist in resolving parts-related issues and supply shortages.

About You

We are looking for someone who:

• Experience in an engineering, technical, stores, procurement, or service support environment would be advantageous.
• Can read and understand technical documentation and parts lists.
• Has excellent organisational and administrative skills.
• Is confident communicating with engineers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Has good IT skills, including Microsoft Office and ERP/MRP systems (desirable).
• Has strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
• Can prioritise workload and work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Company Information

Who are we?

Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows:

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 390 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development

Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• 24 Days Holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families