Purchasing & Stock Co-ordinator (Manufacturing)

About the role…

Purchasing & Stock Co-ordinator within a manufacturing environment involved in the production of small wind turbines for the UK and overseas markets.

Core Responsibilities

• Physically take deliveries of goods entering the factory, ensuring what is delivered matches what is ordered and checking quality where required.
• Ensure all received goods are housed in their appropriate locations.
• Packing of products ready for despatch and arrange shipping of finished goods to meet customer demands.

• Chasing overdue deliveries with suppliers
• Receipting goods entering the factory onto the stock management system
• Collating purchasing requests from all areas of the business
• Raising Purchase Orders where necessary and ordering goods
• Helping with the creation of RFQ’s to send to suppliers.
• Liaising with the accounts department on any issues relating to Purchase Orders and finding resolutions
• General stock control and kitting of parts for production
• Maintain good housekeeping of the goods in/despatch area of the factory.
• Keep the outside yard area tidy and organised to allow for lorry access.
• Standardise and improve on the Companies packing processes where possible.

Additional Responsibilities

Any other reasonable request made to fulfil the requirements of the business such as the occasional site visits and work.

• A team player with a positive outlook and ‘can do’ attitude to any task that may be asked of you.
• Counterbalance forklift license is desirable.
• Experience in a production environment with a strong knowledge of safe working practices
• Strong working background in all IT systems, especially Microsoft with excellent skills in Excel
• Ability to work on own initiative, identifying problems and solutions in a timely and safe manner.
• Confident phone manner and proactive approach to expediting the Purchasing process.
• Rigorous approach to documentation.
• Excellent attention to detail and full commitment to quality.
• Ability to follow agreed feedback procedures and communicate clearly on a technical basis.
• Good communication skills, including written and verbal English.
• Desire to work in an ever growing and evolving industry.
• Keen and willing to undertake training to develop new skills as required by production demands.
• Happy to occasionally assist with installation and maintenance of turbines on site.
• Preferably a commitment to and emphasis on green core values.
• Flexible and willing to work overtime if necessary.

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2023, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk + RSPB.

Britwind is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.