Stores Supervisor - Kelso

In Australia, the J.R. Simplot Company’s core operations are food manufacturing and agriculture, encompassing potato, vegetable, seafood and sauce operations. We supply a wide range of frozen, shelf-stable and chilled products to Australia and New Zealand’s major retail and foodservice customers and are part of Simplot’s Global Food business. With 17 food manufacturing and processing sites, Simplot Global Food serves retail and foodservice customers in 37 countries, and employs 8,000 people across North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

 

In Australia, we are a leading provider of quality, nourishing and sustainable food, focussed on creating food that maximises value from the best Australian-grown produce and global seafood. Our iconic brands have been an integral part of Australian life for generations, and include Leggo’s, Birds Eye, Edgell, John West and Chiko.

Culture and Benefits

At Simplot, we are fueled by our purpose: We Contribute to Feeding Our World. We imagine a better future and set goals to reach it. We are committed to working as one Simplot and are guided by our shared values:
 

• Respect for Resources
• Spirit of Innovation
• Passion for People

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. We care about creating an environment that promotes safety and wellbeing and where our people feel supported, respected and empowered. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all our team members.
 

Simplot is passionate about cultivating a future where good ideas and inspiring possibilities have the chance to grow. We want our team members to build exciting and fulfilling careers with us and offer professional and personal growth opportunities.

The Perks

 

• Bonus incentives
• Discounted health insurance options
• Income Protection Insurance
• Novated car leasing agreements
• Fully supplied & laundered uniform, boots & PPE
• Training & development opportunities
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Discount options on gym memberships, hire cars, and Microsoft Office products

About Our Role

An exciting opportunity exists for the permanent full-time position of Stores Supervisor at our Kelso manufacturing plant.  Simplot Kelso is our seafood and snacking processing plant, producing 75 SKUs for the retail and foodservice markets. The site employs about 100 people with approximately 95% of manufactured goods consisting of either Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) or Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) seafood.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, this integral Monday to Friday site based role is responsible for ensuring the reliable, efficient and cost-effective management of mechanical, electrical and production spares to our Maintenance & Production teams.

What You Will Do

 

• Ensure reliable and cost-effective sourcing of spares / materials for the engineering store.
• Manage all activities related to stock control, stock movement, inventory holdings and cataloguing.
• Managing the receipt and storage of engineering materials.
• Ensure that JDE and MEX are aligned and reflect each other.
• Participate in the site’s Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) process focusing on asset criticality and developing inventory holding policies.
• Timely and accurate stocktaking, consistent with Simplot  and procedures.
• Assist in the establishment and implementation of standard numbering and naming conventions.
• Establish and maintain parts re-order thresholds, ordering procedures, issuing procedures (parts issues at plant entity level) and stores location and bar coding controls.
• Establish and maintain stock take procedures with the intent to migrate to cycle count once best practice stores inventory accuracy is achieved.
• Establish and maintain stores security protocols and systems (e.g. access to stores, stores systems and how this is controlled i.e. Fobs.)
• Establish and maintain front of stores Kan Ban systems and auto bin replenishment by suppliers.
• Provide timely information and advice to Maintenance Planner and fellow team members on critical issues and activities.
• Keep the Engineering Manager and Maintenance Planner informed on activities, developments, issues and changes which may or do impact on the team, or the completion of the scheduled maintenance or assigned maintenance tasks.

About You

 

• Demonstrated Stores experiences within a manufacturing or industrial environment (essential)
• Mechanical / Electrical aptitude (trade certificate would be advantageous)
• Attention to detail
• LF Forklift licenced
• Intermediate leve