Logistics Controller - Templecombe, United Kingdom - Thales

Thales

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Templecombe, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Location:
Templecombe, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission.

Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air.

Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.

At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer.

We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.

Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Logistics Controller

Location:

Templecombe

Are you a proactive individual that has passion for Logistics? Do you have experience in Warehousing and Inventory Practice? Are you looking for a challenging role that could be a great stepping stone in your career? Then this position could be for you.

Our Opportunity:

Thales is a leading global organisation focused on enabling civil and military customers to effectively perform complex tasks in critical environments.

The services we provide to customers are dependent directly and indirectly on exchange of goods and documents, both within Thales and with its customers or service partners.

Logistics plays an important role in supporting manufacturing, enabling support functions and Thales' service delivery.

Thales UK is looking for an innovative, enthusiastic and professional to assist with co-ordinating all logístical resources in a timely and efficient manner in support of its Belfast product delivery ensuring compliance with all security and legislative constraints.

Primary Purpose of the Role:

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

Ensure the 4PL solution is executing business priorities.
Be the point of escalation to and drive collaborative improvement with the 4PL provider.
Manage process compliance and improvements within the logistics delivery cycle.
Support Stock Reconciliation activities with the 4PL provider.
Support the efforts in controlling and managing Customer Assets.
Develop and provide information and management reports as required.
Support the Logistics Manager as and when required in the execution of their duties.

About You:

Essential

Knowledge of Logistics, Warehousing and Inventory practices.
Experience in management and use of large ERP Systems (ideally Oracle).
Able to prioritise tasks and understand when to escalate issues.
Manage complex priorities, able to deliver key goals and objectives.
Effective communicator and confident in dealing with all levels of management.
Eligible to obtain SC security clearance.
Ability to work alone or within a team environment.

Desirable:

Detailed knowledge and experience of the Oracle ERP system, particularly the Manufacturing and/or Inventory Management areas of the system.
Experience in continuous improvement, problem solving and change management in an Industrial environment.
Awareness of ITAR/EAR Trade Compliance.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

What We Can Offer
We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best.

We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry.

We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Company Story

The future is full of excitement and change; each new change and technology will create situations no one has had to deal with before or even anticipated and it will happen at an even faster pace than today.

Our 3 priorities throughout the crisis remain constant:

To continue to protect all our employees' health and financial wellbeing.
To safeguard the business and continue to deliver for our customers as best we can.
And, to ensure that Thales is best placed to recover quickly.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 coun