Job Description

Stores and Logistics Manager

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Stores Manager to lead the stores function at our Waste Treatment Plant in Milton Keynes. You'll be responsible for ensuring our engineers have the right materials, parts, and consumables, available when needed, accurately controlled, and cost-effective.

This is a hands-on role that combines stock control, procurement coordination, systems-based tracking, and team leadership. You'll work closely with Engineering, Operations, and Procurement to keep the site running efficiently and to minimise downtime caused by missing or delayed materials.

Working Hours: Monday - Friday 8am-4pm

Key responsibilities

Manage stores operations end-to-end: goods-in, receipt checking, put-away, issuing, returns, and housekeeping. Coordinate ordering and replenishment of parts, PPE, consumables, and engineering materials to support planned and reactive maintenance. Use stock systems/technology to track inventory levels, movement, and usage, ensuring accuracy and auditability. Maintain min/max stock levels, investigate variances, and reduce stockouts, obsolete stock, and unnecessary spend. Liaise with suppliers and internal teams to ensure on-time delivery, resolve discrepancies, and manage substitutions where appropriate. Produce and interpret basic reporting on stock value, usage, costs, and savings opportunities. Promote safe working practices across the stores area, ensuring compliance with site procedures. Lead, coach, and organise the stores team (where applicable), setting clear priorities and service standards.

The Person

Proven experience as a Stores Manager / Inventory Manager in a complex operational environment (e.g., waste, utilities, heavy engineering, manufacturing, energy, logistics). Full driver's license (essential) Strong working knowledge of stock control and procurement processes, including goods-in, issuing, and supplier coordination. Confident using inventory/ERP/CMMS systems (and able to maintain high data accuracy). Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, able to manage urgent requests without losing control of stock integrity. Strong communicator who can build effective relationships with engineers, operations, and suppliers. Comfortable working with numbers: able to interpret financial/spend data and support cost control. Understanding of the types of materials required to maintain an industrial operation (mechanical/electrical consumables, spares, etc.).

Benefits

Entry into Company bonus scheme - up to 5% Contributory pension up to 6% 24 days annual leave Annual opportunity to buy additional annual leave (up to 5 days) Life assurance: 4 x annual salary Flexible benefits: Access to a wide range of flexible benefits through Bravo Benefits, allowing you to tailor your package to suit your individual needs, including health, wellbeing, and lifestyle options. Free parking

Our Business

At Thalia Waste Management, we are creating a future to be proud of. We think differently, questioning everything, enabling us to develop progressive waste into energy solutions and services. Being motivated, tackling problems together, inspiring others to take responsibility, making a difference, being ambitious and contributing value.

We operate the best technology available across our four strategic sites in North Yorkshire, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Wight. Our technology includes everything from mechanical and biological treatment, traditional mass-burn energy from waste and material recycling technologies to in-vessel composting, advanced thermal treatment, innovative small-scale energy from waste and anaerobic digestion. In a single year we process 300,000 tonnes of waste that is turned into energy. This generates the same amount of energy as approximately 600 million solar panels. Similarly we recycle circa 95,000 tonnes of waste.



Inclusion

At Thalia Waste Management, we work hard to make sure we are an inclusive and diverse place to work. This means we don't just look at your CV, we're focused on who you are, your skills and passion that can be brought to Thalia Waste Management. We know and understand the everyone is different and has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working and any adjustments that could be needed! We'll do all that we can to support everyone from their first contact with us. For any support or adjustments needed through our recruitment process, please speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. As a Disability Confident Employer, we will make sure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.