Maintenance Stores Officer

Join a market leading FMCG during an exciting global growth journey
- We pride ourselves in innovation and ability to deliver
- Ingleburn location, Monday-Friday role

Real Pet Food Company (RPF) is passionate about feeding our pets the real food they deserve - filled with nutrients, free from harmful substances and full of flavour. At RPF we believe in staying real and doing the right thing by our pets, our fellow pet parents, and our planet. We strive to lead the industry through thoughtful innovation with real and recognisable ingredients, ethical and sustainable sourcing, and limiting processed food our pets consume. We want pets to live their best lives - helping them to grow up strong, healthy, and happy.

We are a fast-growing, innovative FMCG Manufacturer with strong ethics and a love for keeping it real. Our success comes from having a great team of people behind some pet favourite brands such as Ivory Coat, Farmers Market, Nature’s Gift, Trilogy & Fussy Cat

**That's where you come in...**

Responsible for the coordination of timely procurement and delivery of manufacturing equipment components at the Ingleburn manufacturing facility. Organisation and maintenance of the stores, its inventory, as well as adherence to budget and systems and processes are crucial to this position’s success.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Coordinate the Engineering stores, purchasing and receiving functions
- Control all aspects of the stores and its systems
- Gain prices and parts from supplies to meet deadlines within the department as set by the business
- Seek opportunities to minimise the number of vendors we deal with on a regular basis
- Monitor supplier performance and work with vendors to improve performance where necessary
- Ensure that store information in CMMS system is accurate and up to date
- Overview factory process and provide QAD support
- Ensure purchasing procedures are in accordance with RPFC policy
- Ensure purchasing - receiving process is efficient and cost effective
- Provision of appropriate and accurate measures for key business drivers on which operational decisions can be based on a timely basis
- Monitor compliance to supply agreements and seek opportunities to improve purchasing/stores opportunities
- Research and understand factory purchasing requirements to improve competitive position
- Monitor the adequacy of factory systems and internal controls, and identification and implementation of system improvements

**About you**:

- Previous experience with FMCG company/industrial food production environment preferable.
- Proven ability to stock control
- Previous experience in engineering stock control
- Highly organized with excellent attention to detail and a systematic approach
- Good written and communication skills
- Ability to cope with pressure and still deliver results with shifting priorities
- Ability to negotiate and manage new existing supplier contracts
- Be customer focused (both internal and external)
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to deal effectively with people of all levels of the organization
- Intermediate Excel and experience using purchasing software such as QAD, SAP or similar
- Computer literate, CMMS knowledge/experience such as MEX

**Our offer**:
When you join Real Pet Food Company you have an opportunity to make a significant contribution while developing your career within an expanding FMCG company. We offer great opportunities for career development and the autonomy to drive your own progression. With the continued growth of our business, this is an exciting time to _join the RPF pack_.
- Please note: NO agencies will be considered during this process. We advise you to refrain from submitting unsolicited profiles_