Material Controller

Material Controller (12 month contract)

**Location**:Wacol, QLD, AU, 4076**Position Type**:Graduate- Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport solutions for the future? If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.**What you will do**
Please note this position is on a full-time 12 month contract period.
Key Responsibilities
- Action the Material control processes
- Raise purchase orders and call-offs
- Liaise with Logistics Parts co-ordinator to support decision ranges sorting lot sizes, stocking levels and policies for area of responsibility
- Monitor the MRP generated order recommendations;
- Expediting of orders to meet customer requirements
- Follow up on Late Orders from Suppliers
- Support production during core business hours
- Manage inventory of parts to minimise risk of obsolescence.
- Inform Production Planner in a timely manner of potential shortages of Build critical Parts.
- Liaise with Quality and Purchasing teams with regard to product quality issues and returns
- Give regular, accurate and timely feedback to relevant stakeholders on delivery issues through escalation process
- Participate and encourage team members.
- Manage additional workload requirements to accommodate New Product Introductions or major changes to the product.
- Ensure compliance with VCVA's Environmental Policy, Workplace Health & Safety requirements, and in general take any reasonable steps and precautions to protect or minimise harm to the workplace, its employees and the environment
Other Responsibilities
Health & Safety
- Ensure a culture of safe working and a safe work environment for all staff
- Raise concerns or actively address any health & safety issue identified
- Follow all instructions given for working safely
- Identify and report all hazards, incidents, injuries & near misses immediately
- Report for work in a safe manner, unaffected by drugs and/or alcohol
- Protect own safety and health and not adversely affect the safety and health of others
- At all times wear safety equipment provided for the job task or area
- Do not misuse or tamper with the safe use of equipment
- Promote wellbeing and health in your team by supporting positive work/life choices, having an awareness of mental health and other health issues, and understanding support networks
Risk Management and Compliance
- Manage risk and compliance in area, including ongoing identification of material risks
- Monitor and ensure adequate risk management and compliance processes are in place
- Contribute to strategic risk management and compliance activities, including ongoing risk identification and mitigation
- Ensure that senior management and your team have a good understanding of the material risks
- Implement and monitor controls to manage risk
- Maintain and oversee all systems of internal control in risk management and compliance systems
- Ensure key legislative requirements are met and changes to legislation are communicated
- Promote a company-wide risk aware culture

**Who are you?**
Qualifications & Experience
- Working knowledge of material control including MRP and JIT systems
- Sound computer skills, in particular Microsoft Office
- Strong planning and organisational skills
- Demonstrated ability of initiative
- Sound analytical and evaluation skills**Who we are and what we believe in**-
**Group Trucks Operations** encompasses all production of the Group's manufacturing of Volvo, Renault and Mack trucks, as well as engines and transmissions. We also orchestrate the spare parts distribution for Volvo Group's customers globally and design, operate and optimize logistics and supply chains for all brands. We count 30,000 employees at 30 plants and 50 distribution centers across the globe. Our global footprint offers an opportunity for an international career in a state-of-the-art industrial environment, where continuous improvement is the foundation. As our planet is facing great challenges, we - one of the largest industrial organizations in the world - stand at the forefront of innovation. We are ready to rise to the challenge. Would you like to join us?**Job Category**:Supply Chain & Logistics**Organization**:Group Trucks Operations**Travel Required**:Occasional Travel**Requisition ID**:7000**View All Jobs**

**Do we share the same aspirations?**

Every day, Volvo Group products and services ensure that people have food on the table, children arrive safely at school and roads and buildings can be constructed. Looking ahead, we are committed to driving the transition to sustainable and safe transport, mobility and infrastructure solutions toward a net-zero society.

Joining Volvo Group, you will work with some of the world's most iconic brands and be part of a global and leading industrial company that is harnessing automated driving, electromobility and co