Material Control Manager

Material Control Manager

Join Our Team at Balfour Beatty plc.

Painter Brothers, a UK leader in steel fabrication, is looking for a Material Control Manager to join our small but growing team. In this role you will be responsible for interpreting, converting, and releasing purchase orders for fabrication, ensuring alignment with business quality standards, timelines, and budgets. You will work closely with Technical Engineers and follow material schedules issued with tenders to keep projects on track.

Reporting directly to the Senior Fabrication Manager, you will oversee all aspects of stock control, including inventory management, production and cleansing, customer liaison, and the coordination of both customer and internal orders.

• Plan and maintain optimal inventory levels to meet production and customer requirements.
• Liaise with suppliers to ensure materials are delivered on schedule.
• Oversee communication with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth execution of plans.
• Adhere to company business processes throughout the lifecycle of manufacturing activities.
• Monitor and improve cost control measures.

• Achieve planned dates for purchase orders to meet fabrication and customer delivery timelines.
• Maintain zero order errors (measured weekly).
• Maintain zero material defects (measured weekly).
• Deliver 98% customer delivery performance.
• Control stock levels and maintain low practical value while meeting demand.
• Order all required external materials for structures.
• Provide accurate stock reporting as required annually.

• Experience of modern manufacturing practices.
• Experience of purchasing systems (Oracle desired but training will be given).
• Driven, positive and friendly character with analytical thinking and continuous improvement mindset.
• Understanding of customer relationship management processes.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate both verbally and in writing.
• Able to implement and drive performance improvement using lean tools, KPIs and visual management.
• Possessing current and relevant knowledge of material controls and best practice.
• Capable of working under pressure to ensure deadlines are achieved.
• Capability to respond quickly, decisively, assertively and professionally to changing requirements.
• Ability to solve problems and make sound decisions with minimal support from management.

• Experience in Steel Fabrication.
• Buying, stock taking, and material control experience would be advantageous.

• Smart working, with flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.

Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of railways that connect communities and underpin growth. Our services cover electrification, track, power, civil, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

We are committed to diversity, inclusion and are a Disability Confident Employer. We support applicants with disabilities and long‑term health conditions, offering interview opportunities where minimum requirements are met.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Management and Manufacturing
• Industry: Construction
• Location:
  
  County Of Herefordshire, Hereford, England, United Kingdom