Senior Rope Access Stores Operative

**About The Role**: The Senior Rope Access Stores Operative is required to oversee and maintain all rope access equipment, PPE, and site kits for projects, ensuring proper storage, maintenance, and compliance with industry standards like IRATA and LOLER regulations.
Key duties include warehouse management, equipment inspections and servicing, inventory control, preparing job-specific kits, maintaining accurate records, and coordinating logistics for site deliveries and collections

Applicant should be experienced in all aspects of rope access equipment maintenance and inspection and hold current certification in PPE Inspection. Personal Fall Protection Equipment Training and a full UK Driving license is essential.

Responsibilities
- Assist with the implementation of goals and objectives for the rope access stores with a view to providing for a more effective and efficient way of working
- Responsible for the review and upkeep of the rope access vendors list ensuring that as a business we remain commercially aligned with our competitors
- Provide input into rope access processes and procedures to ensure compliance with our IRATA accreditation
- Responsible for the upkeep and weekly distribution of the rope access equipment tracker and coordination with the relevant project personnel as to amendments
- Responsible for full inventory management and assuring that at all times there is enough rope access equipment located within the stores to support ongoing/upcoming rope access operations
- Engage with projects as the Senior Rope Access Stores Operative to provide guidance on equipment, its durability, and suitability, in support of rope access operations
- Carry out cleaning of equipment to allow for detailed visual examinations in accordance with legislative (LOLER) requirements
- Maintain knowledge of requirements as detailed within the IRATA International Code of Practice with regards to equipment suitability, selection, cleaning and inspections
- Be familiar with various types of rope access equipment and governing EN standards
- Ensure compliance with the PD&MS rope access management system and its processes for recording and reporting on equipment
- Control all materials in and out of the main store and other locations, including unloading/loading of deliveries
- Ensure delivery of materials to various site locations
- Control rope access equipment including inspections, documentation, and control of quarantined items
- Assist in the ordering of equipment, PPE, and taking control of stock
- Oversee collection and control of delivery documentation/ inspection certificates to ensure receipt of correctly ordered items.
- Work within established Company policies and procedures
- Promote company values and standards and exhibit appropriate behaviour in accordance with Company ethos
- Demonstrate safety, integrity and commitment at all times
- Maintain excellent levels of communication throughout the team
- Undertake other duties within capability when required to meet the varying demands of the business and satisfy customer needs
- Responsible for all stores activities to support execution of project schedules
- Update software/documentation; materials are receipted, stored appropriately, bagged, tagged and issued in accordance with Company policies, procedures and in compliance with all QHSE and any legislative requirement

**About You**:
**Qualifications**
- Educated to standard grade level or equivalent, with passes in Math & English

**Experience / Competence**
- Thorough understanding of maintenance and inspection processes, procedures, and governing legislation (e.g. PUWER, LOLER etc.)
- Personal Fall Protection Equipment Training (PFPE) is essential
- Manual Handling Training
- Previous experience of rope access stores management / coordination and record keeping in line with Industry / Applicable standards
- Lyon PPE Certification
- Previous experience in a similar role
- Competent in the use of applicable software packages
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Industry experience, Oil & Gas preferable
- Working at Height Training preferable

**Personal attributes**

Our GENES, our core values, define who we are, what we stand for and how we deliver.
- Go the extra mile
- Empower our people
- Never get complacent
- Engage our partners
- Step up and deliver

If this sounds like you, then you could be a perfect fit.

**About Us**:

- PD&MS has been engineering solutions in the energy industry and beyond since 2002, our ability to combine innovative ideas with technical expertise sets us apart. A flexible, full-service provider committed to supporting the energy transition, we deliver high-quality project work across the entire lifecycle of assets within the oil and gas, renewables and nuclear sectors. But whoever we work with, it’s the energy, professionalism and purpose of our people that really makes the difference.

**Be who**you’re** meant to be, with PD&MS**

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