UK Stock Controller

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, and our presence in the US and China positions the Group well in these high-growth markets. We leverage our consumer insight and scale to provide innovative food that offers quality, choice, convenience, and freshness. Around 18,500 colleagues operate from 44 sites across our three markets supplying a portfolio of over 2,900 products across meals, pizza & bread, salads and desserts to leading grocery retailers in the UK and US, and international food brands in China.
UK Stock Controller (Engineering) - Bakkavor Spalding (Group services – Central Engineering)
We rise to challenges together.
Monday to Friday 08.30am-17.00pm
Salary: £40,000 to £45,000 depending on experience plus benefits.
Why join us? 
We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals, and succeed together.
What we do. 
We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food
- you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us. About the role.  We have a fantastic opportunity for a UK Stock Controller (Engineering) to join us in our Central Engineering team at Bakkavor Spalding.
Duties and Responsibilities will include; - Deliver the engineering inventory strategy.
- Deliver the inventory CMMS process and support the procurement team with necessary information.
- Support delivery of the digital management processes including the file structure, the ability to manage business correspondence and confidential information.
- Construct reports of food and drink inventory management activities, internal performance reports, asset management plans, reports to specific regulators and certifying bodies.
- Create and maintain engineering documentation for food and drink engineering components.
- Manage external resources, meetings, schedule appointments and document discussion content.
- Organise the logistics and support the procurement of component parts for food and drink processing and packaging assets.
- Review inventory availability and performance of maintenance components. Review the suitability and efficiency.
- Audit and feedback the engineering documentation to ensure it is current.
- Support the selection of external suppliers, contribute to performance measurement of suppliers within the context of the organisation’s asset management approach.
- Manage/respond to breakdowns of food and drink processing and packaging assets. Manage/conduct inventory interrogation to support reactive requests and develop corrective actions to resolve deviation.
- Contribute to continuous improvement projects to optimise food and drink assets or processes. For example, participate in failure investigations to ensure process effectiveness and to contribute to and implement practical engineering solutions for efficiency and profitability.
- Contribute to food and drink internal and external audits.
- Contribute to technical performance reviews in collaboration with other functions and stakeholders.
- Support the administration of maintenance and operational team members in the delivery of engineering technical competence. About you. 
The ideal successful will have; - CMMS experience (or achieve within 12 months).
- Experience reading and adhering to site SOP’s.
- Experience in Spare Parts Management
- Experience in planning works and writing reports
- Project Management and Continuous Improvement experience
- Food manufacturing / FMCG experience What you’ll receive.   
As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.   You’ll enjoy:  - Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
- Short Term Bonus Scheme upto 10% of salary
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Staff Shop
- Stakeholder Pension Scheme
- MyBargains Discount Platform
- Personal Accident Insurance
- Free Independent Mortgage Advice
- Employee Assistance Programme
- A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
- Discounted tutoring for children
- Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Free Carparking Proud to be Bakkavor.   
We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!  Find out more and apply. 
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