Why choose us?
Choosing to work for SMS means choosing to make a difference. We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone. Through our range of innovative energy solutions, we are delivering the future of smart energy – working closely with private and public sector partners we are playing a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK economy by 2050. 
What's in it for you?
- 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell)
- Enhanced Maternity and Adoption leave.
- 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.
- Medicash health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments like optical, dental and physio treatments. Discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.
- Share Incentive Plan.
- Life Insurance (4 x annual salary)
- Pension matching scheme (upto 5% of salary)
- Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.
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What's the role?
As a Stock Administrator you will be responsible for ensuring replenishment and stock system accuracy and stock reporting activity and you will be reporting to the Stock Team Leader. You will require good communication and close working with warehouse/transport functions to ensure timely and accurate replenishment of stock.
As the stock administrator you will create engineer orders, showing both speed and accuracy. You will work alongside operations to support engineers via email/phone.
The role also includes day to day maintenance of relevant systems and raising of documentation and reports to allow efficient processing. Including daily schedules, POD, communication to other departments, chasing up collections, dispatches, reporting any anomalies, etc. Liaising closely with the warehouse team in ensuring all requests are ready for dispatch as per the working schedule.
Key responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Stock Team Leader on site and working alongside the Warehouse Team in ensuring the full process is adhered to from start to finish.
- To update and maintain relevant systems & spreadsheets relating to the Reverse Logistics Operations (Removed Assets & Triage).
- To maintain high standards of data input, adjustments and reporting to enable system integrity relating to the Reverse Logistics Operations (Removed Assets & Triage).
- To take initiative and comfortably respond to any queries, escalating if necessary, working closely with others and using own initiative.
- Liaising daily with the Glasgow and Doncaster department on collections, 3rd parties request, storage, communications etc.
- To assist the Stock Team Leader in carry out stock checks at month end working with the warehouse team, in ensuring all data is collated and passed on accordingly.
- To complete ad-hoc duties that supports both the function and the business as and when requested
To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:
- Knowledge of Stock/Admin/ skills, working within a Warehouse environment, able to work with others and own initiative, working in accordance to daily schedules.
- Strong Microsoft and excel skills
- Ability to work in a busy and demanding environment without sacrificing quality or breaching H&S Rules and Regulations
- Ability to work with the stock team to ensure physical stockholding across all SMS locations is accurately reflected within the stock system
- Ability to maintain high standards of data accuracy in relation to stock adjustments and stock allocation.
- Ability to create picking lists for the warehouse using information from many sources.
- Experience of Ordering specialist stock items, tracking delivery dates and communicating with other business areas to minimise the impact of any stock shortages.
- Ability to take initiative and comfortably respond to any queries, working closely with other members of the stock team to resolve, and escalating if necessary
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