Materials Stores Controller

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

12/23/2024

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Role - Material Stores Controller

Location - Crawley

Job ID: R0272214

Our Opportunity

We are looking for a dedicated Materials Store Controller to play a key role at our Thales Crawley location. This position is vital in ensuring governance and process compliance with Customer Funded Equipment (CFE) requirements, as well as overseeing all activities related to the receiving, shipping, transacting, and embodiment of CFE assets. As our volumes increase, you will be heavily involved in developing and enhancing processes to maintain efficiency and accuracy in managing CFE on-site, ensuring that we meet our operational objectives while upholding the highest standards of compliance and accountability.

As a Materials Store Controller, you will be:

• Primary contact for the control of CFE assets within the end to end supply chain.
• Representing the company in CFE audits and any other relevant customer material audits.
• Developing improved solutions within the CFE supply chain including developing the interface with key internal customers
  
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Apply a methodical, disciplined approach to Inventory Management and CFE accountability.
• Support improvements in process & transactional accountability
• Support a self-audit process to improve CFE/GFE compliance.
• Responsible for the presentation of data relating to CFE
• Take Supporting role in customer audits for CFE
• Build relationships with all stakeholders e.g. internal functions and customer reporting requirements.
• Participate in the development of solutions to process issues in line with company objective
• Experienced, with a demonstrated record in delivering compliant processes and upholding Quality Assurance in all aspects of the supply chain
• Capable of managing and growing improved efficiency with the customer interface
• Be an effective communicator – to include presentation skills - and able to prioritise tasks and understand need to escalate issues.
• Be able to demonstrate skill & a level of competency in the use of:
• PC, Laptop & Peripherals
• MS office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Teams)
• Adobe PDF Writer
  
  
  

About You

You will:

• Demonstrated experience in delivering customer satisfaction
• Understanding of Defense industry supply chain standards is desirable
• Experience in working across varied functions
• Recognised Supply Chain qualification is desirable. Personality / Behaviours
• Commercially aware – with an emphasis in delivering customer satisfaction
• Demonstrate a right first time attitude.
• Have the necessary drive, enthusiasm and interpersonal skills to communicate with multiple stakeholders in problem solving. An understanding of the principals of 5 Why/Root Cause Analysis would be an advantage.
• Ability to work to deadlines.
• Be able to assess and manage workload
  
  
  

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry.

We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the assigned recruiter.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

Benefits At Thales

• Hybrid work model
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover
• Progression and Development Opportunities
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Development focused targets and relocation support can be provided if required along with a variety of learning, development and career enhancement opportunities.
  
  
  

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a Non-ITAR country may be considered. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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