Technical Stockroom Supervisor

 

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POSITION SUMMARY:
The Technical Stores or Stockroom Supervisor is a key person for the factory maintenance program who owns all technical store areas and people operating in the technical store. They are responsible for all technical store routines. This person needs to have a deep understanding of the Nestlé Maintenance strategy and the maintenance foundations. The position is responsible for providing the spare parts required for maintenance: easy to find, right quality, available when needed, with the optimum inventory level and cost of management.   The Technical Stores Supervisor will ensure the following activities are established and maintained. Establish and control the right storeroom area and proper 5S storage conditions; establish and manage the right material master data (Material type, BOM, ABCZ classification, etc.); establish and control the routine of the material movements (receiving, issue, returns, reordering, scrapping); establish and manage the inventory control processes (cycle counting, storeroom access process).  This role is a key link with other stakeholders and must work seamlessly with technicians, maintenance planners, operational buyers, and finance.

 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain a clean and orderly 5S storeroom
• Plan the storeroom layout for efficient order picking and inventory care
• Organize and manage staffing levels to ensure adequate support for maintenance
• Work closely with the planning/scheduling department
• Provide inventory reporting to Finance and  Purchasing; ensure finance approval of all stock adjustments, min/max adjustments, and obsolete part write-off
• Manage the process to refine and control slow-moving parts and obsolete part removal.
• Monitor min/max levels and order point information
• Manage inventories by ABCZ classification
• Use best-practice inventory management practices
• Coordinate activities with other disciplines (purchasing, accounting, engineering, operations, management) to ensure high support of maintenance activities
• Provide monthly KPI reports to the maintenance manager
• Coordinate special parts orders with maintenance
• Provide reports to management such as inventory valuation reports, negative inventory reports, cycle count variances, scrap, and obsolescence
• Attend maintenance and planning meetings
• Become familiar with plant equipment and operational processes
• Maintain open lines of communication
• Establish and maintain "Work-Flow Process Charts" and standard operating procedures for major work systems within plant stores: Parts set-up, Parts replenishment, Parts issue, Parts return, Parts repair and re-stock, Parts Kitting, Inventory Process (Annual and Cycle Count)
• Solicit training/education, network with other sites, as necessary to become the site expert on these systems.
• Provide training systems for all affected personnel for the above work process.
• Ensure technical stores compliance to all: safety, food safety, and environmental guidelines NGA, NSAT, TPM-PM etc. and complete loss analysis to identify and develop improvements
• Budget Management. Support with technical stores data in building the zero-based maintenance budget.
• Understand and ensure that the proper segregation of duties to the Factory Engineer and Factory Controller. Undertake investigation and auditing of any variances or key controls and measures, and implement corrective actions in consultation with factory management.

 

REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM EDUCATION LEVEL:

• High School diploma or GED required.<