Purchasing - Materials & Parts Stores

Purchasing - Materials & Parts Stores

EP Industries Ltd is looking for an experienced materials and parts purchasing person to join the team in **Alfreton, Derbyshire.**

Construction / Rail Plant business requires experienced materials & parts person.
Stock Control and Some sales UK and International with shipping. Responsible for ordering the acquisition of goods and services needed by the company. Duties
include the ordering of materials, supplies, and/or equipment, arranging packing, despatch and delivery. The role includes setting up of Electronic Jobs & Purchase
orders within Microsoft Excel and checking all stock deliveries and timescales.

**Essential Skills / Experience**:

- Mandatory requirement: a background in Construction plant, minimum 5 years’ experience
- Fork Lift Truck Licence (in local area)
- Creating Export Documentation
- Shipping for the EU and World Wide
- Supply Chain and Trend analysis updates
- Dealing with Freight Forwarders
- Hold Fork Lift Truck Licence
- Booking and Planning Exports and Imports
- Stock Control
- Invoice requests to accounts
- Purchasing parts, materials and machine components required for construction plant & Rail upgrades, repairs/service
- Audits
- Shipments via Sea, Air and Land
- Arrange Adhoc Transport requests
- Check and GRN Delivery of goods
- Customer Service
- Administration
- Ideally hold Fork Truck license and have a back ground in Plant operations of Rail and construction equipment
- Continually monitor the trends in their supply environment and within their firms
- Influencing and persuasion skills
- The ability to work well in teams to include suppliers, customers & employees
- Willing to change and adapt and be flexible
- Problem solver seeking the best solution

**Responsibilities**:

- Raise Job Numbers for goods / machines / equipment and parts required by managers and fitters.
- Prepare / process requisitions
- Raise Purchase orders for Goods required
- Maintain digital / paper records of goods ordered and received.
- Procure all necessary materials within the workshops needed for effective production and operation within the company and the best prices and quality, ensuring all parts for workshop usage are followed up until received.
- Complete orders on specific suppliers site portals
- Manage order delivery timescales, chase parts deliveries overdue.
- Arrange emptying of General waste and Mud skips
- Source Quotations and provide the most cost effective and suitable materials ( must be from approved suppliers RISQS Network rail approved for critical rail supplies
- Oversee vendors that supply the company with the items it requires to operate properly.
- Locate vendors of materials, equipment or supplies, and source competitive quotes to meet Company requirements.
- Inspect / review product availability and terms of sales
- Arrange calibration of tools
- Prepare and process requisitions and purchase orders for supplies and equipment
- Manage purchasing department documentation and electronic files
- Review / Analyse suppliers to ensure compliance is achieved by completing monthly trends analysis report
- Analyse delivery systems in order to assess present and future material availability and suitability
- Participate in locating products or substitute materials
- Liaison with other departments, Accounting, Admin, managers, fitters manufacturing and stock departments.
- Budgeting, costing and cost saving after reviewing the management information available.
- Health and Safety, Quality and other legal requirements.
- Good communication & housekeeping skills
- Electronic (scanning) and manual filing of documents.
- Ad hoc duties as assigned
- Check master job book (F3199) and Purchase order electronic spreadsheets, taking time to ensure accuracy is achieved at all times
- Liaison with other departments, Accounting, Admin, managers, fitters manufacturing and stock departments.
- Budgeting, costing and cost saving after reviewing the management information available.
- Health and Safety, Quality and other legal requirements.
- Good communication & housekeeping skills
- Filing
- Ad hoc duties as assigned
- Maintain all Job costing and Purchase order electronic spreadsheets, taking time to ensure accuracy

Salary commensurate with experience.

Death In service non-contributory scheme benefit.

**Salary**: From £28,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift

**Experience**:

- Purchasing: 1 year (preferred)
- Construction Plant: 5 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Fork Lift Licence (in local area) (required)

Reference ID: Purchasing