Technical Storekeeper

**Location**: East London
**Company**:Nestlé

**Position**: Technical Storekeeper
**Qualification**: Grade 12 with Maths, Diploma in Engineering or Logistics will be advantageous

**Experience**: 3 years’ experience in technical field preferably food or FMCG industry as artisans, technician, store man or other similar positions.

**Closing Date**:09 October 2024

**Position Summary**

With a history spanning over 150 years, Nestlé didn’t become the world’s leading food and beverages brand by chance. Perfection is at the heart of what we do, and our people are always looking for the next big idea to cement our status. We are now looking for a Technical Storekeeper to be based in East London.

In this role you will be responsible to ensure that the technical store management is performed in an optimized way, while considering all the potential problem areas such as controlled/restricted access, controlled receiving of goods, control of stock items and consumables, regular inspections and counting of stock, quality control of all incoming goods, sustained 5s, understanding of the planned production schedule, safety requirements, food safety requirements, spare parts classification (ABCZ). Understanding of the Engineering stores key link to other stake holders e.g. artisans, technicians, maintenance planner, operational buyer, while being the key person responsible for all technical stores.

**A day in the life of a Technical Storekeeper**:

- World class maintenance in planning operations, through maintaining or providing the right spare parts at the right time.
- Escalate abnormal usage patterns that could lead to stock out.
- Participation in and use of TPM as the multidisciplinary approach as well as using AMM as a management tracking tool to ensure a well-managed and efficient technical store.
- Support corrective and planned maintenance activities in industrial services by ensuring correct stock holding of spare parts including extraordinary activities and special charges.
- Ensure correct technical store data to support the zero-based maintenance budget.
- Drive technical store financial KPIs to control budget.
- Utilize all available tools to control stock and eliminate losses.
- Drive through proactively the technical stores as the service provider.
- Track and mange in an open and visual way all technical stores KPIs using AMM TPM-PM guidelines having proper link with users e.g. Engineering team, Factory controller, artisans, operators etc.
- Interact with procurement team for improvement on the life cycle cost for spare parts including extraordinary activities and special charges.
- Drive direction with the project teams with regards spare parts coming/remaining from project activities.
- Ensure technical stores assets and activities are respecting constraints on safety food, safety energy/water consumption at a factory level by analyzing the potential impact of any variable e.g. lubricants stores, inflammables, chemicals, spare parts to be used in contact with products.

**What will make you successful?**
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in technical field preferably food or FMCG industry as artisans, technician, store man or other similar positions.
- Grade 12 with Maths, Diploma in Engineering or Logistics will be advantageous
- Recommendation to have participated in a basic SHE and Food safety training.
- Strongly recommend having experience with IT systems (SAP and Windows environment) as well as experience participating in or coordinating the organization of stores, technical workshops or other similar workplaces.
- Recommendation to have exposure to TPM preventative maintenance planning and maintenance execution.
- Basic exposure to supervisory experience with technical teams such as mechanical and electrical, contractors and other third parties.
- Basic exposure in coordination and planning of maintenance activities considered, SHE, food safety and other constraints.
- Basic exposure to equipment and spare parts used in the following fields instrumentation and industrial services. E&A general food and beverage industry.
- Participation in multidisciplinary teams involved in problem solving following defined KPIs/Objectives and proactively tracking them involving all required fields.