Warehouse Officer will be responsible for coordinating storage, monitoring stock and adhering to the stock management systems with the view of increasing efficiency and minimizing cost.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Determine re-order points and maximum stock levels in conjunction with users.
• Monitor stock usage of all materials and notify user/ procurement when stock balances run low.
• Daily update of the stock items tracker to aid monitoring of the stock levels.
• Daily monitoring of finished goods transfer process from production and ensuring that accompanying transfer records tally with the physical goods transferred.
• Timely completion of finished goods transfer forms and verification of finished goods before entering in stores and into the SAP system.
• Regular stock reconciliation to ensure that all the anomalies are dealt with.
• Ensuring store records following receipt, returns and issue of items are duly and timely captured in the SAP system.
• Timely and accurate counting of goods/products or materials while offloading and loading to ensure
• that right quantities have been delivered or dispatched.
• Timely offloading of materials and products.
• Timely and accurate report on dispatched products.
• Daily and accurate capture of all products and materials entering store.
• Optimize the stacking of items to effectively use the available storage space.
• Maintaining clear walkways in store to facilitate easy movement and location of items within the management system.
• Monitor inventory and damaged stock sorted for grinding following management approval.
• Ensure Production assistants attached to stores meet their daily targets of arranging, organizing and cleaning stores.
• Physical supervision to ensure daily cleaning of stores.
• Ensure that for all products dispatched from stores for sale should have corresponding LPO from the customer.
• Continuous follow up with the customer to ensure more orders are obtained and also to collect feedback.
• Ensuring that feedback obtained from the customer is fully acted upon and well documented.
• Ensure timely delivery of customer orders.
• Ensure proper tracking of customer LPO’s and earlier communication made to them in case one is exhausted.
• Proactively support in sale of finished products to our customer and ensure that the sales target is met
• Perform any other duties as assigned to you by your supervisor.

Financial Management

• Monitor and ensure zero waste across the different manufacturing processes.

Risk Management

• Identify the department’s risks, their various mitigations and keep track of them.

Compliance

• Ensure regulatory compliance regarding product certification.
• Adherence to all SPS Policies and Procedures.

Qualifications, Skills andExperience:

• • UDBS or higher Diploma in Accounting/ Finance or Business studies, Procurement and Logistics Management or Supply Chain  Management.
  • Minimum of 2 years employment experience preferably in a manufacturing setting.

Competencies Required

Behavioural

• Must be of unquestionable integrity, Honesty, Trustworthiness and Professionalism.

Leadership

• Must be a team player.
• Strong Leadership potential to effectively drive a business agenda and operational coordination of activities.

Knowledge.

• Advanced experience with MS Office.
• Risk-based thinking and decision making.
• Good understanding of GMP.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills (both oral & written).
• Good analytical skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.

Attributes include:

• • Good at trouble shooting.
  • Self-starter & team working skills.
  • confidence and impartial in decision making.
  • Strong interpersonal skills.
  • Good time management and organizational skills.
  • Ability to work under minimal supervision.

Physical Requirements and Environmental Conditions

• Frequency of travel: Occasional travel is required for meetings; location may vary and may require overnight stays.
• Light physical activities and efforts required working in an office environment.

Key Performance Indicators for Evaluation

Quality: Adherence to inventory practices 100%

Speed: Improve sales target to 100%

Cost: Adherence to set minimum and maximum stock levels.

Sustainability: 100% identified and closed safety observations.

People: Ensure teamwork 100%.

Interested candidates are invited to apply through our email hr@simplastics.co.ug, copy support@rcsconsult.net. Indicate the Job Title in the subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.