Engineering Stores Controller

1 week ago


Wigton, United Kingdom First Milk Full time

**Engineering Stores Controller**
Lake District Creamery, Wigton, Cumbria
**The Company**
First Milk is a wholly British farmer-owned dairy co-operative with a vision to create value for members by delivering long-term prosperity in the form of success, profitability, security and wellbeing.
Owned by the family farms that supply us with milk and invest capital in the business, we produce award-winning cheddar, regional cheeses and dairy ingredients, as well as marketing fresh raw milk to many other UK dairy processors.
We work together as one team, with a relentless focus on efficiency and quality, to deliver competitive total returns to our farmer members. We put customers at the heart of our business, creating value through strong, long-term partnerships.
We’re currently looking for an Engineering Stores Controller to join our team on a full-time basis.
**The Benefits**:

- Competitive salary
- 26 days' holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Pension
If you are an engineering support professional with a decent grasp of engineering terminology and IFS, this is an outstanding opportunity to grow and develop your skills with our organisation.
Everything we do is focused on delivering dairy prosperity for everyone in our business and for our colleagues, this means providing rewarding careers, with competitive pay and conditions in a safe and supportive working environment.
We are passionate about change and encourage everyone to make a difference, celebrating success and working as one team.
So, if you are ready to take your next step, develop professionally and advance your career, we’re waiting to hear from you.
**The Role**
As the Engineering Stores Controller, you will support planned maintenance activity through the effective management of all stocks of engineering spares and equipment.
Working with other departments to ensure we can meet stock ordering needs, you will co-ordinate and assemble 'Job in a Box’ (JIB) items whilst undertaking a range of stock control activities.
Additionally, your role will involve:

- Maintaining and updating the IT stock control system
- Ensuring optimum stock levels are maintained
- Seeking to avoid stock-outs
- Putting together JIB items in readiness for planned maintenance activities
- Returning un-used JIB items to the stores
- Preparing daily and weekly PPM schedules
**About You**
- Experience of working within engineering departments in a supporting role
- An understanding of engineering terminology
- Knowledge of IFS
- A Counterbalance Fork Lift Truck licence
- Excellent communication skills, seeking to input ideas, plans and priorities
- An ability to work unsupervised and maintain high standards
- Good general IT literacy and the ability to do simple analysis and populate simple databases and spreadsheets effectively
- GCSEs (or equivalent) at grade C or above in Maths and English
This role will be 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8am to 4pm.
Other organisations may call this role Stores Controller, Stores Person, Parts Controller, Manufacturing Maintenance Technician, or Production Maintenance Technician.
Webrecruit and First Milk Ltd are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conductbusiness and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.


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