Controller Inventory

With over 60 years of experience, Macmahon is a mining contractor with a unique capability of offering its clients surface, underground and mining support services.

Macmahon has an exciting opportunity for an Inventory Controller to join the Inventory team. Reporting to the Inventory Manager, this role is responsible for continuously monitoring stock levels to ensure optimum stock holding levels are maintained with a particular focus on identifying obsolete/excess inventory and redistributing/disposing it to minimise costs to the company. This role is also responsible for training stores personnel on the inventory related processes and procedures, and conducting regular audits to ensure compliance.

The Perth office is strategically located at the Airport (T1/T2) and boasts an impressive staff gym with personal and group training, free secure undercover parking, and electric vehicle charging stations.

**Responsibilities**
- Provide constructive feedback to operational stores personnel on performance
- Ensure physical arrangement of receivables, storage and dispatch areas at the sites are adequate for the process to operate safely and efficiently
- Review procedures and enforce/coach employees on processes for the physical receipt of goods from suppliers, ad-hoc issues, picking parts and sending goods off site
- Assist with investigations into variances with a view to identify process improvements and drive implementation
- Lead project start-ups from an inventory perspective, including the set-up of the physical facilities
- Comply with and ensures team compliance with Inventory and related policies and procedures
- Oversee stocktake process and investigates variances
- Identify areas of improvement to process and implement
- For stock no longer required, determine how to reduce its value
- In consultation with the sites, implement changes to items being stocked
- Review warehouse procedures to ensure they continuously improve
- Review warehouse layouts to ensure it is optimum and meets all statutory requirements
- Develop procedures/processes to ensure stocked items do not deteriorate or expire
- Lead bi-annual stock takes
- Review catalogue to keep data clean

**Qualifications and attributes**
- 5 years’ experience as a store person
- Advanced computer skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Safety and housekeeping training
- Forklift license
- Team management training
- Formal auditing qualification
- At least 1 year warehouse supervisory/management experience
- Interpersonal skills
- At least 2 years’ experience managing a team of more than 4 people

**Macmahon offers**
- Competitive salary and rewards
- Career development pathways and opportunities
- Award-winning lifestyle, financial and mental health support
- Salary sacrifice options including novated leases
- Secure on-site parking with EV charging stations
- Exceptional staff gym + group fitness classes
- Employee discounts: groceries, petrol, fashion, entertainment + more

Macmahon is a diversified contractor with leading capabilities in surface and underground mining, civil construction, and resources engineering. Our end-to-end mining services encompass mine development and materials delivery, engineering, civil construction, on-site mining services, rehabilitation, and site remediation. As an ASX-listed company, with headquarters in Perth, we work for resource companies across various commodity sectors in Australia and Southeast Asia.

Macmahon offers our people the ability to work in diverse roles, in different locations and realise new opportunities within the Company over time. Macmahon is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages suitably qualified women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to apply.

As part of the recruitment process for the role, you will be required to complete a pre-employment medical, including a laboratory drug and alcohol screen and criminal history and qualification checks. Additionally, you will have to provide proof of working rights in Australia, i.e., a copy of a valid Australian passport, birth certificate, citizenship certificate or current visa grant notification.