engineer Irlam, England
Job description
Kingsland Drinks is a well-established premier independent UK supplier of wine and spirits specialising in providing a complete category solution. Using our consumer understanding and drinks experience, we provide innovative, bespoke solutions to become the partner of choice as we create value for our customers.
Working at Kingsland, a company that is employee owned, means that you can suggest ideas and innovative ways in how we, as a collective run our business. Our most important stakeholder is our members (employees), who have also been key to our success. We have built on our heritage, with a family ethic, and always tried to encourage a positive can-do culture that encourages individual responsibility. We have always valued our members contribution and we recognise that the success of Kingsland has only been possible with everyone’s valued contributions.
Our key objective when we decided on the next step on the journey for Kingsland is for our business to continue to grow and develop and provide security for all our stakeholders. We strongly believe we have created a great legacy that we want to securely hand this on to the next generation and beyond, so the future of the business remains in its own hands. We want Kingsland Drinks Group to be a place people enjoy coming to work and a business our members feel proud of.
We are looking for passionate, professional, and fun-loving candidates to join our expanding business here in Manchester! As we’re accredited in IIP, we are invested in looking after our members and training / developing you to fulfil your careers. Stop ‘wine’ing’, you will have a ‘grape’ time with us.
What does this corker of a job entail?
- Establish gaps within the system and correlate all existing data on the system with what is in stock.
- To maintain a well-organized, efficient and safe engineering stores in support of minimizing equipment downtime and improving performance and value.
- To achieve site Key Performance Indicators (KPI`s) in respect to stock value, accuracy, stock turns & consignment stock
- To proactively source alternative components, engineered parts and suppliers that are able to meet the technical and performance standards of the parts they replace
- To manage the complete end to end return of defective parts/non-conforming parts to the supplier
- Check deliveries and receipt of goods into the computer systems.
- To update and maintain computerized stocking system for all material movements
- Organise parts for specific maintenance tasks / shutdown work. Work closely with the site engineers to source urgent non stock engineering consumable items as required.
Key Ingredients
- Experienced SAP system user / superuser
- Good level of literacy / numeracy
- Minimum 3 years experience in an Engineering or Engineering stores role
- Computer literate – Excel, Word, Outlook etc
This job comes with a full bottle of benefits!
- Highly competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement that increases with length of service
- Company day at Christmas, to share with your nearest and dearest
- Annual profit share based on company KPI’s
- Huge discounts on wine and spirits in our company shop!
- Flexible working options
- Life assurance cover
- A generous thank-you gift if you 'recommend a friend' to work with us too. Lots of people work alongside their loved ones at Kingsland.
- Wellbeing resources, including Mental Health First Aiders and access to an EAP with free counselling. Your wellbeing is a top priority, and there's lots of support at Kingsland.
- Well-being App to help support your mental health
- Health Checks (diabetes/blood pressure, stop smoking advice etc.)
- Training and progression opportunities open to all, including fully funded apprenticeships.
- Involvement with New product development (Wine / Spirit tasting)
- On-site free car parking
- Electric Vehicle charging
- Local Community involvement – Irlam Live ticket discounts and Rugby ticket discounts
We welcome applications from everyone. If you have got the talent, the potential, the drive, and determination there is a place for you at Kingsland Drinks Group. Join the team and be our partner in ‘wine’
Don’t bottle it, this job will make your career Fizz!
