Engineering Team Leader Stores
Engineering Team Leader - Stores
- 📍 Location: Spalding
- 🕒 Full Time ¦ Permanent
- Lead Our Engineering Stores Function
We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineering Team Leader - Stores to take ownership of our Engineering Stores operation, ensuring engineers have the right parts, materials, and services available to support a world-class manufacturing environment.
This role combines stores leadership, stock control, purchasing, budget management, and engineering administration, making it ideal for a proactive individual who thrives on organisation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading the day-to-day operation of the Engineering Stores function.
- Managing engineering stock levels, purchasing activities, and inventory accuracy.
- Controlling and reporting engineering spend against departmental budgets.
- Ensuring all engineering parts, consumables, and services are ordered efficiently through SAP.
- Maintaining accurate stock records within Holistech and other site systems.
- Coordinating daily, monthly, and annual stock counts while ensuring KPI targets are achieved.
- Receiving, checking, and processing deliveries to agreed specifications and quality standards.
- Supporting engineering reliability by ensuring parts are available for planned maintenance activities.
- Monitoring and reporting key stores KPIs including stock accuracy, OTIF, stock value, and stores performance.
- Driving 5S standards and continuous improvement initiatives throughout the stores environment.
- Investigating and resolving stock discrepancies through effective root cause analysis.
- Providing administrative support to the Engineering Department and supporting wider site objectives.
About You
We're looking for a highly organised and self-motivated individual with excellent attention to detail and strong leadership capabilities.
You'll ideally have
- Experience managing engineering stores, inventory, or maintenance-related operations
- Strong knowledge of stock control, purchasing, and budget management
- Experience using SAP, Holistech, or similar CMMS systems
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- A proactive, can-do attitude with strong problem-solving abilities
- The ability to work independently while leading and supporting others
Desirable Experience & Qualifications
- Engineering qualification (Level 3 desirable).
- Experience within FMCG, manufacturing, or food production environments.
- Knowledge of PPM planning and engineering maintenance activities.
- Understanding of BRC, HACCP, Food Safety, and SOX compliance requirements.
- Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, or Six Sigma awareness.
- IOSH, ROSPA, COSHH, Manual Handling, or Fire Warden training.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- FLT Licence desirable but not essential, as training can be provided.
Why Join Us?
You'll be joining a fast-paced manufacturing operation where you'll play a critical role in keeping engineering activities running smoothly and efficiently. This is an opportunity to lead the stores function, influence site performance, drive continuous improvement, and make a tangible impact on operational success.
