Lead Stores Technician

Ceres Power is a global leader in solid oxide technology, driving the clean energy revolution. Our steel-supported fuel cell and electrolyser technology gives partners a decade of development advantage-accelerating innovation in power generation, green hydrogen, and distributed power solutions for data centre's. Trusted by some of the world's most progressive companies, our proven designs deliver efficient, low-cost solutions backed by over 5 million test hours. At Ceres, innovation is in our DNA. Join us and be part of a world-class team making a positive impact on the planet.

Purpose of the role

As Lead Stores Technician, you'll help manage the day-to-day running of our warehouse operations at the Horsham site. This is a hands-on role, combining the duties of a Stores Technician with supporting the Warehouse Manager as their operational deputy. Working closely with the Warehouse Manager, you'll agree daily priorities, organise the stores team's workload, allocate tasks and monitor progress, workloads and service levels, ensuring operational requirements and deadlines are met safely, accurately and on time.

The role involves providing practical guidance and support to the team, communicating material constraints, risks and handover information to the Warehouse Manager and relevant internal stakeholders, and acting as the operational point of contact to maintain continuity across day-to-day warehouse operations. Responsibilities also include loading and unloading delivery vehicles, either using a forklift truck or by hand, as well as receiving, counting, inspecting, sorting, locating and moving stock throughout the warehouses. All receipts and stock movements must be accurately recorded within the MRP system.

You'll also be responsible for ensuring materials are correctly kitted for internal production orders and maintaining an efficient flow of materials to production, including servicing Kanban deliveries to production areas. This includes following the relevant Work Instructions to ensure materials are stored correctly, as well as preparing, packaging and despatching finished goods for customer shipment and export in line with applicable Work Instructions. Maintaining full compliance with health and safety requirements is essential, alongside promoting 5S standards to keep working areas clean, tidy, safe and well organised. The role is primarily based at our Horsham site, although there may also be a requirement to work at our Redhill warehouse, so the ability to travel between both sites is essential.

Knowledge and skills required for the role

• Experience of coordinating colleagues, allocating work or acting as a lead point of contact in an operational team.
• Full UK driving licence
• Computer literate, with experience of accurate MRP system data entry and stock transactions
• Ability to work to deadlines with excellent attention to detail.
• Clear communication skills and the confidence to coordinate a team and raise issues appropriately.
• Strong Awareness of HSE requirements and reporting issues where required.