Stores Assistant United Kingdom
Job description
Full-time, permanent role. 36.5 hours per week
The stores team are responsible for managing goods inwards and the maintenance of essential stocks and provision of consumables for both undergraduate teaching and research laboratories across both the School of Life Sciences and Warwick Medical School.
As the Stores Assistant, you will maintain an effective and efficient Stores service that is appropriate for the needs of academic community. Your role will involve providing a customer-facing service for the issue and return of goods - maintaining stock records using the SAP finance system. In addition, you will oversee all goods coming into the School, including unloading and manual handling.
You will also assist the technical support team as necessary, carrying out manual handling and checking activities.
You will have good organisational skills with the ability to manage peaks of activity and be focused on customer service. Ideally, you will have previous experience in a stores or stock control environment.
As the Stores Assistant, we need someone with a driving licence to travel between Gibbet Hill to Wellesbourne and across campus.
With you application please attach your CV and provide a supporting statement.
To find out more or arrange an informal conversation about the role, please contact: The Stores Manager, Kash Bassi at [email protected].
Interview Date: TBC.
Job Description
To run, maintain an effective and efficient Stores facility. To ensure all goods are properly received and issue stock and materials as appropriate, complying with Health & Safety regulations and guidelines at all times.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- To provide a customer-facing service for the issue and return of goods - maintaining stock records using the SAP finance system where applicable.
- To oversee all goods coming into the School, including unloading and mechanical handling, ensuring that deliveries are dealt with efficiently and ensuring the secure and safe handling of goods at all times. It is essential that all activities are in accordance with all relevant health and safety guidelines.
- To check goods are received in good condition, and to check goods against delivery notes and valid purchase order to ensure that the School is only invoiced for the correct items. Includes processing of goods receipt transactions on SAP where applicable.
- Stores record- and house-keeping activities.
- To regularly check the quantities of items held in the Stores and to liaise with the Stores Manager to arrange for replenishment where necessary to ensure that all goods required by the School’s user community are available when required. To liaise with suppliers on delivery schedules.
- To maintain Stores records and stock inventories at all times, entering stock movements in a timely manner and with attention to accuracy, to ensure that stock records are up to date and true.
- To maintain records to ensure that users are appropriately charged for stock issues.
- To ensure that the stores area is kept neat and tidy so that goods and staff are safeguarded (including ensuring the stores is not left unattended whilst open) and to facilitate the safe and efficient operation of the Stores.
- To deputise appropriately for the Stores Manager if required.
- To assist the School’s technical managers with departmental and laboratory duties as required - this may involve manual handling (e.g. moving furniture and equipment, cleaning filters on high specification equipment and freezers, daily checking of freezer temperatures etc).
- To collect and distribute solvents and liquid Nitrogen to the School’s user community, observing Health & Safety regulations and guidelines.
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For further information about the department, please visit the departmental website.
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Right to work in the UK
We wish to advise applicants that this role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker visa. If you do not yet have the right to work in the UK you will need to check the UK Government website page Apply for a UK visa to see if you are eligible to obtain right to work in the UK through one of the other UK immigration routes before you make your application.
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