Balfour Beatty plc
Stores Coordinator
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty UKCS Living Places has an exciting opportunity for a Stores Coordinator to join our team based in Aylesbury.
This role will be key to supporting the smooth running of depot and stores operations, ensuring that plant, equipment, stock, PPE and consumables are effectively managed, maintained and available to support operational delivery.
As Stores Coordinator, you will act as a central point of contact for depot stores and yard activities, helping to maintain a safe, organised and compliant working environment. You will work closely with operational teams, suppliers, contractors and internal stakeholders to make sure materials and equipment are in place when needed, while supporting accurate stock control and efficient depot processes.
What you'll be doing
As a Stores Coordinator, Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Coordinating and managing plant, equipment, materials and stock across operational workstreams.
- Ensuring stock management processes and administration are completed accurately and efficiently.
- Ordering, issuing and monitoring materials, PPE and consumables.
- Checking deliveries against advice notes, including quality, quantities and any damage.
- Liaising with suppliers regarding faulty, damaged or replacement stock.
- Supporting the hiring, acceptance and off-hiring of plant and equipment.
- Ensuring tools and equipment are appropriately managed, including calibration requirements.
- Maintaining high standards of housekeeping across the yard and stores areas.
- Supporting compliance activities within the depot, including routine facilities checks.
- Liaising with contractors in relation to facilities maintenance.
- Working with operational teams to ensure materials required for site are arranged and accessible.
- Loading and unloading service and delivery vehicles as required.
- Helping to ensure yard and stores access is controlled and limited to authorised personnel.
- Reviewing supply options to help support best value and continuous improvement.
- Supporting depot operations to remain safe, efficient and compliant at all times.
Who we're looking for
We are looking for someone who is organised, proactive and confident working in a busy depot or operational environment.
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The Ideal Candidate Will Have
- Experience in stock control, stores, depot, logistics, plant, materials or a similar operational role.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Good attention to detail and the ability to maintain accurate records.
- Confidence using IT systems to support stock management and administration.
- A quality-focused approach with a commitment to maintaining high standards.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work with operational teams, suppliers and contractors.
- A practical, hands-on approach and willingness to support depot activity where required.
- The ability to identify improvements and support more efficient ways of working.
- A good understanding of safe working practices.
It Would Also Be Beneficial If You Have
- Experience within the highways, construction, industrial or depot operations environment.
- Knowledge of 5S principles.
- Telehandler or forklift truck experience or training.
- Experience working within an environmentally permitted facility.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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