Material Handler

**Material Handler**

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**Location**: Falkirk

**Competitive package + half day on Fridays**

**The Company**:

- Come join Alexander Dennis. We are transforming public transport globally by designing, manufacturing, and servicing the cleanest and greenest buses and coaches for our customers.
- In a nutshell, we build buses and coaches. In fact, more than half of the buses you see on the roads in the UK are built by Alexander Dennis. We have a huge responsibility to keep the world moving.
- We are saving the planet. Our purpose is to support Governments globally with their push to reduce pollution and improve air quality by building greener, more eco-friendly buses.
- We love our customers. So much so, almost every bus we build is bespoke - what the customer wants, we will do our best to deliver.
- We have a fantastic Canadian parent company called NFI. They welcomed us into the family in 2019, and we haven’t looked back ever since.
- We are building back and growing again, winning new orders in Germany and Ireland which will be manufactured right here in the UK.
- Our global footprint is pretty impressive. We have a presence in some super cool places across the world from Hong Kong to Auckland to Toronto.
- Our people are our biggest asset, making us the hugely successful company we are. We are transforming how we work, offering team members more flexibility around how they live and work.

**What does that mean for you?**
- Generous salary package - we reward our people at the level they deserve.
- A half day on a Friday. Yes, every Friday. Giving you more time at the weekend to do the things you love, with the people you love.
- A 37-hour working week, with flexible working options, giving you that much needed work/life balance.
- Annual leave entitlement which increases with tenure.
- Pension scheme to help you save for the future.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme which offers practical, impartial support on issues impacting your life.
- Cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, and regular meditation sessions as your health and wellbeing is important to us.

Interested and want to find out more? Check out our YouTube channel or LinkedIn

**Your Dream Role**
- An exciting opportunity to join the ADL Warehouse team at our site in Falkirk.
- You will be responsible for all physical aspects of receipting, moving, counting, delivery and related system transacting of materials in line with current agreed process and health and safety regulations.
- Continuous improvement will also form a key part of this role - actively contributing and participating to drive improvements wherever possible.
- All aspects of material movement in line with health and safety procedure.
- Ensure health and safety procedures are followed at all times
- Put away of materials as per FIFO.
- Management and distribution of all shortages and modifications.
- On time delivery of kits as per kitting schedule.
- Auditing of deliveries via goods in or direct line feed.
- Maintain cleanliness and organisation within the goods in, warehouse, lineside & yard areas.
- Operation of Randex storage unit.
- Utilising fit for purpose storage and available space effectively.
- Re-arrangement of warehouse and stores areas as required.
- Issuing of materials and real time transactions in MRP system, both manually and via scanners.
- Safe operation of lifting equipment.
- Verify kit contents and quantities on delivery to production.
- Carry out 5s duties as allocated and directed.
- Picking & shipping of materials required at aftermarket or other ADL build locations.
- Active involvement in continuous improvement projects.
- Initiation, Investigation and processing of Lost & Damaged inventories.
- Perpetual Inventory counts.
- Full root cause analysis of inventory discrepancies through interrogation of MRP system.
- Processing of inactive and obsolete inventories. This includes verifying inventory and following the agreed business disposition process.
- Processing returns of any unused line materials or kits from production.
- Any other general stores activity as advised by Supervisor.
- Liaison with planning team on material availability or shortage feedback
- Maintenance of excel shortage reports.
- Generation of work too and kitting reports.
- Issuing of works orders.
- Receipting of works orders.
- Auditing of work areas.
- Initiation of actions from other departments to ensure identified materials corrective actions are carried out.

**What you will bring**:

- You will have excellent communication skills and be confident in talking with a variety of stakeholders regularly.
- You will be computer literate, specifically in business MRP system & Microsoft Office
- You’ll have the ability to use handheld scanners.
- Things can be fast paced here; you’ll have the ability to prioritise your workload and work to tight deadlines.
- Lifting equipment licenses would be a d