Job Title: Purchasing Assistant
Location: Office Based, Farnworth, Bolton, BL4 0AN
Salary: £21,000 to £25,000 per annum (dependant on experience)
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
Working Hours: 07:30 to 16:00 Monday To Thursday, 07:30 to 12:50 Friday (38 hours per week)
About the Company:
As one of the UK’s leading heating element manufacturers, Heatrod offer a wide range of products from standard straight elements through to customer bespoke equipment. Our success is built on our ability to satisfy our customers by providing quality products, outstanding customer service and delivering on time every time!
We combine a growing industrial manufacturing base with a thriving distribution business. The engineering team are at the forefront of the business in defining initial concepts with our customers and then using standard tools and processes in developing those concepts into usable products and bespoke engineered solutions.
About the Role:
As part of this role, you will:
- Place purchase orders as identified from our system, as per company requirements
- Expediate open POs to ensure on time delivery
- Communicate incoming material delays to other departments as required
- Work closely with stores to ensure they are up to date with incoming delivery schedules.
- Awareness of incoming containers.
- Monitoring delivery dates
- Support container delivery unloading and checking stock levels
- Feedback to Lead Purchaser on discrepancies
- Review and publish supplier delivery performance each day
- Review and update traded products for weekly planning review, passing discrepancies to Purchasing Lead
- Input to systems maintenance and updates (e.g. new prices, lead times, etc)
- Update stock levels on customer forecast sheets
- Work with goods inward on any incoming quality issues and resolving same
- Assisting the finance team on invoice queries
- Recording all purchase orders in the purchase order file
- Completing the order book review
- Cover for Lead Purchaser as required
About you:
- Ideally you will have some relevant purchasing experience in an engineering or manufacturing environment, but this isn’t essential
- As well as your proactive and enthusiastic attitude, you will be organised and able to multi-task effectively with a right first time approach
- We’d really like you to have Maths and English GCSE’s at Grade C/4 or equivalent. Any Purchasing qualifications will be an advantage, but they aren’t essential.
- You must be computer literate, and have great verbal and written communications skills
- Be a team player, happy to listen, and roll your sleeves up to get stuck in!
What we can offer you:
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) increasing with length of service
- Free on site parking
- Cycle to work scheme
- Learning and development opportunities
- Referral scheme
- Staff social events
- Cash Health Plan
No agencies.
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