Details
1093866
University of Warwick
24/03/2025
3 Months
Full time 36.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, starting at approximately 8am each day.
Smart Casual
Pay
£12.18
£1.47
Description
Role
The stores team are responsible for managing goods inwards and the maintenance of essential stocks and provision of consumables for both undergraduate teaching and research laboratories across both the School of Life Sciences and Warwick Medical School.
As the Stores Assistant, you will maintain an effective and efficient Stores service that is appropriate for the needs of academic community. Your role will involve providing a customer-facing service for the issue and return of goods - maintaining stock records using the SAP finance system. In addition, you will oversee all goods coming into the School, including unloading and manual handling.
You will also assist the technical support team as necessary, carrying out manual handling and checking activities.
You will have good organisational skills with the ability to manage peaks of activity and be focused on customer service. Ideally, you will have previous experience in a stores or stock control environment.
To run, maintain an effective and efficient Stores facility. To ensure all goods are properly received and issue stock and materials as appropriate, complying with Health & Safety regulations and guidelines at all times.
Duties and responsibilities
- To provide a customer-facing service for the issue and return of goods - maintaining stock records using the SAP finance system where applicable.
- To oversee all goods coming into the School, including unloading and mechanical handling, ensuring that deliveries are dealt with efficiently and ensuring the secure and safe handling of goods at all times. It is essential that all activities are in accordance with all relevant health and safety guidelines.
- To check goods are received in good condition, and to check goods against delivery notes and valid purchase order to ensure that the School is only invoiced for the correct items. Includes processing of goods receipt transactions on SAP where applicable.
- Stores record- and house-keeping activities:
- To regularly check the quantities of items held in the Stores and to liaise with the Stores Manager to arrange for replenishment where necessary to ensure that all goods required by the School’s user community are available when required. To liaise with suppliers on delivery schedules.
- To maintain Stores records and stock inventories at all times, entering stock movements in a timely manner and with attention to accuracy, to ensure that stock records are up to date and true.
- To maintain records to ensure that users are appropriately charged for stock issues.
- To ensure that the stores area is kept neat and tidy so that goods and staff are safeguarded (including ensuring the stores is not left unattended whilst open) and to facilitate the safe and efficient operation of the Stores.
- To deputise appropriately for the Stores Manager if required.
- To assist the School’s technical managers with departmental and laboratory duties as required
- this may involve manual handling (e.g. moving furniture and equipment, cleaning filters on high specification equipment and freezers, daily checking of freezer temperatures etc.)
- To collect and distribute solvents and liquid Nitrogen to the School’s user community, observing Health & Safety regulations and guidelines.
Skills and experience
Essential Criteria
- Excellent customer service skills.
- The post requires a high level of computer proficiency.
- The ability to follow processes
- The ability to manage data with accuracy and demonstrate excellent attention to detail
- Good organisational skills
- The ability to prioritise to manage peaks of activity
- General H&S awareness and understanding
- A full and current driving licence that entitles you to drive in the UK without restrictions.
Desirable:
- Awareness of the H&S requirements of the stores area. In addition, an understanding of the consumables and equipment used in a life sciences environment would be helpful
- The post-holder will ideally have previous experience in a stores or stock control environment
Location
On Campus – Gibbet Hill
Additional information
Interviews will be held ASAP