Materials Management Coordinator (12 month, part-time)

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About the opportunity

We have an exciting and unique opportunity for a dynamic professional with a background in Supply Chain, Operations, Maintenance and/or Engineering to drive strategic improvements in Materials Management for our WA Operations (WAO) Workshop and the Repairables process for our Refining locations in Australia.

Reporting to the WAO Workshop Manager at Pinjarra, this position is offered on a part-time basis working an average 21.6 hours per week! This position will be a fixed term contract for 12 months.

Alcoa’s three Refineries in WAO spend approx $44M each year on the repair and replacement of Inventory Items which have been identified as Repairable.

The Materials Management Co-ordinator will work at a strategic level with the WAO Workshop, Engineering, Maintenance, Stores and Procurement staff, across multiple sites, to drive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reductions and the competitive advantage for Alcoa by aligning requirements of the area with strategies, and with the overall business requirements.  Two specific strategic expectations in concert with the core activities have been highlighted for the duration of the fixed term contract, these are:


* Enabling the reduction of unplanned break in work for the WAO Workshop by at least 50%.

This will be accomplished by the identification of stock out repairable items directly contributing to unplanned break in work and implementing strategies to prioritise achieving and sustaining min stock of these items. 


* Actively working to reduce WAO Workshop maintenance parts costs by 2% in 2025.

Core activities of this role will include:


* Accountability for the overall operation of the Repairable Item Management System (RIMS) process and execution of agreed strategies


* Monitoring of Materials Management activities for the workshop including critical spares management, item returns incl.

return of repairable items, lost goods, mini stores, consignment stock, direct purchase items reviews, facilitation of continuous review of min max recommendations, slow moving & obsolete reviews


* Supporting and working with Procurement to identify opportunities and develop/implement strategies for cost reduction and supplier performance improvement, and ensure contractual obligations are met,


* Leading supply chain improvement activities, including transition of any new or changed supplier arrangements within the Commerc...