Logistics Squadron Fuels & Lubricants Senior Storekeeper

UK Ministry of Defence; Albrighton; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job description

Logistics Sqn, RAF Cosford, Albrighton, Wolverhampton, W Mids, WV7 3EX.

Job Summary

The RAF’s success depends on their people including regular and reservist military, civilians, and contractors all working together as one Whole Force. Our civil servants are a central part of this undertaking essential work and contributing to the RAF’s mission and values. The role of civil servants in Defence is more vital than ever – now and for the future.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for either an experienced Fuels & Lubricants specialist practitioner, or someone wanting to take their first or next step on the development ladder within the logistics profession in what is a safety critical role.

RAF Cosford is a large and diverse station with a transient population home to a diverse range of station support elements supporting the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering and all other resident and parented units to achieve their defence output delivery.

The role is part of a team within the Logistics Sqn which is part of the Operational Support Wing (OSW) at RAF Cosford, and it provides a pivotal function to the Station Commander as Head of Establishment with assurance of regulatory and legislative compliance.

We are looking for someone with good communication and organisational skills, with an attention to detail and the drive to see tasks through. Using proficient IT and organisational experience you will engage with a wide range of stakeholders and build relationships with colleagues across multiple TLBs to ensure smooth operational delivery and high-quality service in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Whilst experience within or an understanding of the Fuels & Lubricants environment would be advantageous, the candidate will ideally have recent experience in a logistics environment with transferable organisational and communication skills. Support is available to someone willing to take advantage of development opportunities including completing mandatory training requirements associated with the role.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job Description

As an integral part of the Logs Sqn, the Fuels & Lubricants Senior Storekeeper is an interesting and challenging role responsible for the receipt, and issue of fuels and associated supplies and consumables, providing the technical expertise as the interface between Logs Sqn and its extensive customer base located over multiple sites. The duties and responsibilities include:

1. Management of the materiel account and integrity of physical stock and storage regulations, conducting quality assurance activities.
2. Management of Fuels & Lubricant products, Bulk Fuel Stocks and Hazardous Waste materials of various Fuels & Lubricant Products, including paperwork, handling, quality and batch control, storage, issue, disposal and receipt.
3. Stocktaking and disposal of non-movement items.
4. Liaise with inventory holders and nominated suppliers for transactions.
5. Act as the supervisor and operator for the Fuels & Lubricants Section, ensuring to meet legislation & regulatory requirements.
6. Management of transportation documentation and reports, packaging requirements and raising discrepancy reports and claims against carriers.
7. Unloading and unpacking of equipment received from external sources.
8. Management of hazardous waste and salvageable scrap commodities, ensuring adherence to environmental regulations and legislation.
9. Act as a team member within the site Spillage Response Team.
10. Undertake driving duties of the section vehicle and forklift truck, operating mechanical handling equipment where required.

Additionally, there will be supervisory responsibility of a team of Skill Zone 2 Storekeepers.

Person specification

We Are Looking For:

1. A dynamic and enthusiastic individual with the ability to balance changing priorities and work with autonomy.
2. A clear communicator, who is comfortable with advising personnel from top to bottom.
3. A self-motivator who looks to solve problems within their responsibility level.
4. Someone with positive interpersonal skills, who can build good connections, relationships, and networks.

The candidate will ideally have recent experience in the Fuels & Lubricants environment and/or transferable organisational and communication skills with a willingness to learn, including completion of mandatory training requirements associated with the role.

Essential Criteria:

1. Full UK Driving license
2. The minimum colour perception standard for Installation Operators is CP2 for duties including driving on active airfields. This is to be assessed during an Airfield Medical Assessment alongside Pre-Employment Checks.

Desirable Criteria:

1. Previous experience of working in a logistics and/or warehouse environment.
2. Knowledge & Experience of working in a Fuels & Lubricants Environment.
3. Previous experience of supervising employees and/or delegating workload.
4. Forklift operator (training will be provided if not already held).
5. Material Handling Equipment training (training will be provided if not already held).

Qualifications:

1. Appropriate Fuels & Lubricants or Logistics qualification - if not already held the successful candidate must obtain this within 6 months of entering the post.
2. Dangerous Goods Knowledge & Experience - if not already held the successful candidate must obtain this within 6 months of entering the post.

Licences

Full UK driving Licence.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

1. Communicating and Influencing
2. Managing a Quality Service
3. Working Together
4. Delivering at Pace

Alongside your salary of £25,180, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,294 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

1. Learning and development tailored to your role
2. An environment with flexible working options
3. A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
4. Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
5. Professional and Personal Development of skills
6. 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 Days upon completion of 5 years service
7. In addition to 8 public holidays per year you will also receive leave for HM The King's birthday
8. Minimum of 15 days Special paid leave in a rolling 12-month period for volunteer reserve commitments
9. Improved maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
10. Easily accessible road and rail links
11. On-site Shop/Café facilities
12. Access to gymnasium, swimming pool and outdoor sports facilities
13. Free on-site car parking

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – We may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience.

Candidates will be required to provide a Personal Statement to draw out any specific, relatable, and transferable skills. (500 Word count)

At sift, you will be assessed against your CV, Personal Statement and the following:

1. Communicating and Influencing
2. Managing a Quality Service
3. Working Together
4. Delivering at Pace

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

At interview, You Will Be Assessed Against The Following:

1. Communicating and Influencing
2. Managing a Quality Service
3. Working Together
4. Delivering at Pace

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: [e-mail].

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:

1. UK nationals
2. nationals of the Republic of Ireland
3. nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
4. nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
5. nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
6. individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
7. Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

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Contact point for applicants

• Name : Mark Flint
• Email : [e-mail]
• Telephone : Tel [phone]

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]

Further information

Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: [e-mail].