Senior Storekeeper

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 326432**Salary**:

- £21,610- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Industrial- Skill Zone 2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Strategic Command**Type of role**:

- Logistics**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- HerefordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
To provide civilian support to ensure the smooth running of issues and receipts within the Quartermaster (QM) department and to carry out all processing required to maintain accurate accounting records of all items held on account.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
1. The QM Storekeeper will be required to maintain a specialist account electronically using the Management of the Joint Defence Inventory system (MJDI), this will include knowledge of demand, receipt, and issue procedures on the MJDI stores accounting system and Maintain individuals’ personal holdings on MJDI.

2. In addition, you will need to be familiar with the procedures for disposal and back loading of stores, running stock levels and stock rotation. Accommodating managerial stock checks will also be required. Maintaining documentation for stores accounting and auditing.

3. This post requires a degree of physical ability as you will be expected to lift and carry boxes of clothing and equipment around the store (also load/offload vehicles), and place/retrieve items and boxes from shelving that may be above head height. In accordance with HSE guidance, the recommended maximum manual handling weight that applicants can expect to lift is men (25kg) and women (16kg).

4. This post will involve on occasions working outside of the core hours, so a degree of flexibility is required. (This may require the need to work on evenings, weekends, Bank Holidays or outside Core hours (time off in lieu will be granted)).

5.Training will be provided in post on the use of the Army inventory management information system - Management of the Joint Deployed Inventory (MJDI).

6. Any other tasks commensurate of role as directed by line management.

**Person specification**:

- Good communication skills
- Basic computer literacy/experience to undertake electronic accounting
- Literate and numerate to GCSE/equivalent level
- Capable of coping with heavy manual work in all weather conditions, within safe manual handling limits
- Hold a clean UK driving licence Cat B to assist collection, delivery and transportation needs of the task
- Ability to work on own initiative and with mínimal supervision
- Ability to work in a team and enable others to give of their best
- Relevant experience and understanding of stores management and accounting procedures

**Licences**:

- Valid UK Cat B driving licence**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £21,610, Ministry of Defence contributes £5,835 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- 25 days leave + bank/public holidays, rising 1 day every year to a max of 30 days after 5 years.
- Access to on-site cafeteria and gymnasium.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

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