Vacancies at Costarchem Nigeria Limited

Warehouse Officer

Reporting to: Operations Manager

Job Brief

• As Warehouse Officer, you will maintain inventory and supplies by receiving, storing, and delivering items while also securing warehouse.
• Maintains inventory by conducting monthly physical counts; reconciling variances; inputting data; developing and maintaining adequate systems of work such that warehouse utilization data, stocktaking records are kept up to date.
• Organizing and managing all storage and distribution activities for the company.
• Achieve high levels of customer satisfaction through excellence in receiving, identifying, dispatching and assuring quality of goods.
• Organizing and maintaining inventory and storage area; improved square meter utilization opportunities
• Ensuring shipments’ and inventory transactions’ accuracy, maintaining records and generating receiving, issuance, inventory, and order requests reports; ensuring accuracy and completeness of purchase order processing.
• Interfacing with customers to answer questions or solve problems.
• Maintaining items record, documenting necessary information and utilizing reports to project warehouse status.
• Identifying areas of improvement and establishing innovative or adjusting existing work procedures and practices; driving cost improvement activities by identifying system improvements.
• Conferring and coordinating activities with other departments.
• Coordinating and tracking shipments; managing the pulling and packing of materials.
• Tracking shipments to ensure they arrive on time and that shipment and delivery processes adhere to any pertinent regulations.
• Ensuring goods are loaded onto delivery trucks (in-house, outsourced or customers’ owned) according to service level determined by the executive management team and with an absolute compliance for rules and regulations.

Requirements

• First degree in any relevant discipline
• 3– 5 years experience as a Store officer in a manufacturing plant
• Ability to work independently without supervision
• Must pay close attention to details
• High organizational skills is a must have

Job Overview
The Operations Manager will be responsible for planning, organizing, developing and controlling all activities of the warehousing and logistics within the business unit’s strategies and guidelines in order to realize short, medium and long term operational goals, whilst complying with customer requirements, rules, laws and regulations.
Job Description

• Participates in setting the overall operations strategy of the warehouse and the logistics department.
• Ensures the full implementation of the Quality Management System procedures related to warehousing and logistic and communicates proposed changes to the Management. This includes the documentation and approval of procedures and work instructions, process forms etc as appropriate.
• Continuously analyses the capacity of the warehouse and logistic, optimizes its organization and makes proposals for new investments if necessary.
• Ensures that subordinates realize their activities and related objectives, as expressed in volumes, timeliness, quality and customer satisfaction.
• Co-ordinates warehousing and Logistic support activities with the other departments of the company to ensure a harmoniously functioning organization.
• Manages his team in consultation with the Human Resources Department to ensure that staff are motivated, trained and ready to achieve objectives.
• Ensures that managed activities comply with technical rules and regulations, as well as rules and regulations on safety, health, hygiene and environmental requirements.
• Proposes and, after approval, ensures efficiency and effectiveness in managing the operations budget and utilization of resources.
• Produces timely and accurate management information and reports.
• Ensures the smooth general day-to-day running the Operation Department
• Sets and defines Key performance indicators for subordinates.
• Ensure all the operations documentation, both on paper and electronic are well maintained.

Requirements

• First degree in Business Administration, Operations Management or any related filed
• Prior experience (05 years) of working in Warehousing/logistics/supply chain/ function with a comprehensive knowledge of supply-chain processes and procedures
• Expert knowledge of technical regulations related to supply-chain such as warehousing, import/export and customs regulations in Nigeria
• Advanced Excel user
• Commercial and financial acumen with a full understanding of the impact of failure in terms of business cost, production schedules and customer order fulfilment Excellent attention to detail skills
• Strong people management skills
• Time management ability