Job Description
Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will work within our Project Management Team, who bring complex custom designed customer orders to life. Handling the crucial purchasing, quality assurance and logistical elements ensuring ‘on time first time’ customer delivery. This role will be primarily office based.
The role demands will be exciting and varied, driven by our global customers order requirements. As a result, it requires a ‘pro-active team player’, who is capable of prioritising tasks, re-prioritising work demands as urgent orders come in and communicating effectively with both internal teams and external suppliers.
Person Requirements:
- Proven purchasing experience, from within a production style environment, is essential. Ideally this experience will be of at least 2-3 years and will have involved the purchasing of raw materials.
- Experience in using an ERP / MRP System is essential.
- A genuine passion for production and purchasing, understanding how they are a crucial part of ensuring on specification and on time delivery to our customers.
- A confident self-starter with the ability to prioritise and proactively manage their own workload, in order to achieve production schedules.
- A real people person, with proven experience in building genuine and lasting supplier relationships, face to face and over the phone.
- A strong eye for detail and excellent organisational skills are essential, as this role will be involved in the progressing of numerous orders each day.
- Excellent verbal communication skills, with the ability to confidently and professionally communicate obstacles in order for the Projects Teams to overcome them.
- Must be able to work as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
- A working knowledge or demonstrable understanding of dealing with subcontractors would be highly advantageous.
- Understanding material drawings would be highly advantageous.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Booking goods in on ERP / MRP System and responsible for the accurate data input.
- Procurement of raw materials to specification.
- Procurement of bought-in items to specification.
- Placing orders for any sub-contract activities.
- Progressing of raw material purchase orders & sub-contract purchase orders, interacting with and chasing suppliers over the phone and via email to ensure on time delivery.
- Maintaining the CRM/ERP system with accurate purchase order & subcontract purchase order delivery dates.
- Adding project notes to the daily orders report to highlight key dates and milestones for manufacturing, painting and packing.
- Raising of project works orders for the Project Manager to issue to the Factory.
- Assisting the Project Manager with any other consumable or project related purchasing, and the progression of placed purchase orders.
- Assisting the Project Manager with the booking of transport for the safe and on time shipment of project related orders.
- Assisting the Project Manager with ensuring all project related Invoicing is up to date.
- Assisting the Project Manager with the preparation of project/QA documentation packs for customers.
- Any other ad-hoc administrative support as required the by Operations Manager.
Role Specifics:
Location: Office Based – Holton Heath Trading Park, Poole.
Salary: £25,000 – £28,000 Dependent on Experience.
Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 08:30 to 17:30. Friday 08:30 to 16:00 (total of 40 hours per week).
Holiday: 20 days plus the Christmas Shutdown period and UK Bank Holidays.
Facilities: Free on-site car, motorbike and bicycle parking. On-site shower and changing facilities. Tea and coffee provided to all staff.
DIS Benefit: Group life cover provided to all employees.
Cost of Living: Periodic cost of living salary reviews for all employees.
Health: Annual occupational health surveillance and monitoring for relevant staff.
Well-being: Independent employee assistance programme (EAP). Eye-care vouchers for relevant staff.
Company Profile
We are an innovative Engineering Design and Manufacturing company, based in Poole. Established in 2002, we have transformed into a leading global brand and the premium supplier within our heavy lifting specialism. Known as technical experts and a versatile supplier, we serve many key global sectors and industries such as Wind Energy, Nuclear, Construction, OEM, Marine and Offshore Oil & Gas. Our products are delivered through a number of different channels, such as: direct end user, resellers, rental partners and a strong distribution network.
The Team
We are incredibly passionate about who we are and what we do. We want to be more than just a supplier, we are a technical expert partner to our customers. The lifting industry is a complex, specialised and demanding environment to operate in, constantly driving us to be the very best we can be – it keeps things very interesting!
Our team is the essential foundation, to support the exciting growth and on-going development of the business. The success of our team is driven through our total commitment to our shared behavioural values: Cooperation, Respect, Honesty, Positivity, and Proactivity. This allows us to boast a working environment that is driven, supporting, fun and friendly.
Application:
This role is based in our office in the UK. Therefore, to be considered candidates must hold the Right to Work in the UK. We are not offering overseas visa sponsorship for this role.
We’re professional people, looking for like-minded individuals, therefore we expect a professional application. For an application to be considered, an up-to-date CV must be submitted, supported by a covering letter.
Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we receive, only candidates successful in passing to the next stages of the application process will receive further contact from us.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £25,000.00-£28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Poole BH16 6FL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Purchasing: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: Purchasing Administrator
