Stores Officer

Company Description

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

Job Description

• Experience in the Stores management activities such as receipt and issue posting of the stores materials in the Stock ledger.
• Managing the physical loading, unloading, storage and Identification and preservation of the stored material.
• Material Planning and Control activity, ABC Analysis, Non -Moving Items Control.
• Periodic physical stock verification of the stored material from time to time and annual stock verification.
• Liaison with the purchase for the low stock and over stock items and follow up for the same.
• The capability of handling stores with a very large number of items.
• Manage the team to achieve the institute's expected response.
• Work together with the indenter / user departments to ensure that required parts are made available to user departments.
• Scrap disposal, E Waste & Hazardous waste regulations where relevant.
• Work as part of the Central Stores team to share ideas and improve operation, recommending, supporting, and implementing continuous improvement activities and process and procedure improvements to optimize results and improve quality of delivery.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance.
• Maintain all the documents up to data.
• Generate reports and submit them to concerted authorities.
• Manage internal and external audit.

Qualifications

The primary focus of this role is to provide day-to-day management of the Central Stores with responsibility for day-to-day stores activity such as Receipt, issue, storage, inventory management, maintain store records, etc.

Qualification: Graduate in Commerce / Diploma in Engineering. Preferably. A Diploma in Materials Management would be desirable.

Experience: 2-4 years of experience in Stores and Inventory Management – Inventory Control, Receipt, Issue and storage and maintain Store records.

Competency: Excellent leadership and man management skills. Preferably exposure to ERP based working. Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members. Excellent organizational and follow-up skills. Competent in problem solving, team building, planning and decision making and commercially aware.

Additional Information

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Network, and Neurodiversity.

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

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