As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

• Monitor and analyse inventory levels to identify potential shortages or overstocks
• Conduct regular cycle counts to verify inventory accuracy
• Propose inventory control procedures to minimize losses and optimize stock levels
• Track inventory movements and transactions using existing or new inventory management systems
• Analyse stock levels and build forecasts to determine appropriate reorder points ensuring no issues are felt by production
• Generate regular inventory reports on stock levels, discrepancies, and trends
• Identify areas for improvement and implement changes to optimize inventory management
• Analyse data to identify root causes of inventory issues and propose solutions
• Ensure adherence to company inventory policies, procedures, and safety regulations
• Raising and managing MRO orders with suppliers from request to delivery
• Negotiating price and delivery terms, confirm and clarify scope of supply, take part in implementation of frame agreements
• Chasing overdue orders, working with supplier on delivery date improvements, determining root cause and a preventative action plan
• Coordinating with other departments on requests, scope clarification, delivery confirmations, problem solving, purchasing issues
• In the hire list review, consumables cost review and improvement plan, sustainable purchasing projects
• Warehousing: pick, pack, put away items in the warehouse
• Goods inwards: delivery notes, processing and booking in on the ERP system, manage named deliveries and quarantine area control, managing and processing stores requisitions