Job Description

You will play a major part in the development of cost-effective purchasing of new and alternatively sourced parts and materials, effectively managing and growing your own cost Centre within this vital area of our business. Extensive product knowledge and their application within the heating industry is an essential element of this role. An understanding of green technologies and a practical background in the gas heating industry would be advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for:

• Identifying parts from information sent through our engineer’s hand-held devices from site
• Managing an end-to-end process from the identification and validation of parts required to the provision of value sourced financial information to our finance controller such as price, client order number and purchase/cost reconciliation
• Ordering parts in a timely and cost-effective manner and ensuring that order numbers are property inputted into company’s property management system
• Raising purchase order numbers and inputting onto job information to ensure accurate costing
• Support management in the negotiation of agreements and act as liaison between manufacturers, suppliers
• Support our customer services team to ensure purchase orders are reconciled and parts are received/collected within key performance deadlines for our site engineers
• Where necessary, provide the relevant financial information to company’s finance controller in order to ensure chargeable parts are invoiced in good time
• Ensure that van stock is ordered, inventoried and replenished to maintain van stocks for our reactive repair teams
• Support our customer services team in the planning, resourcing and allocation of jobs to engineers via our property management system, Callsys

Additional pay:

• Performance bonus
• Yearly bonus

Benefits:

• Company events
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19

COVID-19 precaution(s):

• Remote interview process
• Plastic shield at work stations
• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Virtual meetings
• Sanitization, disinfection or cleaning procedures in place

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

A minimum of 5 year’s experience in the gas heating or parts industry, ideally with practical experience at a supervisory level. A full, largely clean, drivers license. Have at least two recent good references, one from a recent employer. Preferably hold ACS or have C or above certificates in English and Math (GCSE / O Levels) or equivalent, depending upon training/educational background. Full computer literacy with good administrative and numerical skills. Hard working, innovative, mature minded and professional in their commitment to the success of our company. Ambitious with a commitment to exceptional customer service. Capable of working to deadlines under pressure. Competent at multi-tasking and good at problem solving. Willing to periodically work outside of normal working hours (Mon- Fri). Experience: administrative: 5 years (Preferred). Education: Bachelor's (Required).