Stores Operative

What You’ll Do

Reporting to the Stores Team Leader, the holder of this position shall have responsibility for the kitting and issuing of Production areas (MRO and OEM), and other user departments at Bedhampton.

The role shall encompass the receiving of materials from vendors, the correct booking in of goods, and receipt to stores locations. In addition, the holder of this position shall be required to work within the packaging and dispatch areas. Depending on operational requirements, the role may involve working across Stores, Shipping, and Dispatch functions in line with business needs. The role shall require the holder to work and train in the correct procedures and practices associated within the Stores functions.

• General duties
• Ensure that all materials required for production are issued from the stores, in accordance with production schedule requirements, completing all necessary batch documentation to ensure parts traceability.
• Correctly pick parts from store locations against kitting requirements, ensuring correct batch numbers are picked and all relevant documentation is completed correctly.
• Assist in the daily cycle count activities.
• Ensure that the stores area is maintained in a neat and tidy state at all times, and complete daily 5S activity for a given area. Assist others to complete their daily 5S activity as a team.
• Relocate and count all piece parts to correct bin locations as required as part of the ‘put away’ process (9 disp).
• Maintain the timely picking of spare orders.
• Assist with the company annual stock‑take activities.
• Comply with Safety, Manual Handling and Health and Environment legislation.
• Maintain daily metrics of all key functions performed as directed.
• Offer ideas for improvements within the stores area to cut out non‑value‑added activities.

• Ensure that all items received at Goods Inwards are correctly received against paperwork and order specification and that details are entered onto the ERP system.
• Departmental target: 130 lines received per day.
• Assist with the unloading of piece parts received from suppliers.
• Check quantities against purchase order and delivery note detailing and discrepancies that may occur with the relevant departments.
• Unpack and inspect all piece parts and update ERP system.

• Assist in maintaining accurate inventory balances with respect to parts identification, storage location, and store quantity for all materials in all store locations. Target is 98 %.
• Responsible as part of the team for assisting in the daily cycle counts performed, the results of counts, and the investigation and rectification of the cause or error counts.
• Maintain accurate transactional traceability, audit trails and general data integrity.

Take a pro‑active role in the continuous improvement programme associated with the advancement of the Supply Chain and general company functions.

• Responsibility for the packing of product and spares required for shipment to customers.
• Ensuring that all paperwork required for product / spares shipment is correctly actioned.
• Copy, as required, and report back to the shipping function in a timely manner.

• A ‘can do’ attitude, with the ‘will’ to complete every task to the best of their ability.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• The ability to work in a team and be able to multi‑task.
• Good attention to detail with good numeracy skills.
• Knowledge of packaging and packing requirements and procedures.
• Knowledge of stores and shipping procedures.
• Flexible in hours and approach in order to support the business at critical times, when the job needs finishing.