Stores & Inspection Assistant - Bury St Edmunds

We are seeking a reliable Stores & Inspection Assistant to join our client, an electronics component company at their site near Thurston, Bury St Edmunds.

This is a full-time, permanent position working 34 work hours each week, from 9am-5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am-4pm each Friday. The hourly rate is between £14.00-£15.00 per hour and this is a lovely chance to join a brilliant, friendly, busy and growing business.

The Company

Our client is a well-established business sourcing and supplying hard-to-find and obsolete electronic components for a wide range of markets, working to ISO 9001 standards. They’re a friendly team of around 10 and are ideally seeking somebody to join them for the long-term and become a much-valued member of their growing business.

The Job

As part of a small team, you’ll be working in a dual role – working in stores and on goods in and goods out, as well as inspecting parts and components for defects, and reporting on these as appropriate. This is a hands-on role, where you will be giving training to IDEA STD1010.

Duties involve:

• Counting in stock manually and digitally, using the company’s stock management system to book goods in
• Unpacking goods in, repacking and storing appropriately
• Visual and digital quality inspection of parts and components, looking for defects, oxidisation, and counterfeit goods
• Using test equipment as part of the quality inspection process, such as multi-meters, oscilloscopes, microscopes, x-ray systems, AOI
• Compiling reports of tests and product data
• Packing orders ready for dispatch and organising shipping/courier collection
• Working as part of a small team, maintaining good communication and liaising with the office when required.

Essential Requirements

The successful individual will need to be team-orientated and have good communication skills. They must be organised, proactive, and comfortable working to deadlines to ensure deliveries are on time and orders are processed to meet customer demand.

Other requirements:

• Considerable experience in a similar shipping/stores/packing/quality inspection position is essential
• Ideally, experience or an interest in electronics
• Ideally, previous experience using inspection tools
• The ability to work to deadlines and prioritise effectively with a proactive and organised approach
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Strong teamwork ethos – ability to work collaboratively
• A friendly, professional attitude
• Eligible to work in the UK with no visa restrictions
• Living within a reasonably commutable distance from Thurston, Suffolk
• Access to vehicle and own driving licence required due to rural location

How to Apply

Please apply to Kate Howes through our website or alternatively, you can email a copy of your CV to kate@horizoneast.co.uk To improve your application, it would be beneficial to provide a covering letter with your application explaining why you feel you would enjoy this role, and why you think you’d be a good match for the position. This can be emailed to Kate directly at the time of, or after your application.

We aim to respond with specific feedback to every applicant via email within 14 days. However, as we are a small two-person independent agency, if we are extremely busy this may take longer. If you would like feedback sooner, then feel free to contact us via email and we will come back to you ASAP.

About Horizon

Horizon Search and Selection Ltd is owned and run by Gemma and Kate from our private offices in Bury St Edmunds. We’ve been in business since 2012 and are friendly recruitment folks and love what we do. Here, we are acting as an employment agency on behalf of our client, the employer. We act as the ‘introducers’, so if you are successful, you will be directly employed by our client. We never share your details with anyone (including our client) without your consent. Any questions? Get in touch!

GDPR

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