Stores Assistant

What will you be doing?

Working within the Business and Supply Team, you will be based at the Council’s Depot’s at Fleming Road, Corby and Robinson Way, Kettering  in our multi-trade stores. You will be responsible for receiving deliveries, issuing goods and materials to staff and monitoring and managing stock levels in a professional and efficient manner.

Responsible for the receipt and issuing of goods and materials to staff to assist in the delivery of excellent customer service

Ensuring accurate stock levels and control measures

Provide a high level professional service to aid colleagues in the efficient delivery of their provision

About you

You should possess experience of multi trade stores environment including knowledge of materials supplies and trade operations.

You will interact with a wide variety of people, and will need to be enthusiastic, methodical, self-motivated and possess excellent customer service skills along with PC skills. 

The role entails a certain amount of physical activity and you must be flexible in your approach to work and be able to work on your own initiative as well as part of a key team.

A Full driving licence is required for this role. 

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)