Stores Controller

Role Details:

Opportunity for an experienced Stores Manager keen to join our innovate Visy Yatala Glass site. This is a full-time, permanent DAY shift role 7:00am – 3.30pm Monday to Friday.   As Stores Manager, you’ll be reporting to the Engineering & Reliability Manager. Your role will be overseeing inventory management and storage optimisation, ensuring optimal stock levels while promoting safe and efficient store operations.

What you’ll do:

• Maintain accurate and optimal inventory levels of consumables, spare parts, and maintenance materials to support production and maintenance.
• Promote a strong culture of safety and efficiency and compliant working environment.
• Maintain stock integrity through regular counts, reconciliations and discrepancy resolution and development and tracking of KPIs to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Maintenance, Engineering, Production, and Procurement teams to forecast inventory needs, plan replenishment strategies, and support operational reliability.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience and enjoyment of creating a large parts store from scratch (approx. $12M of parts and $1M of consumables)
• Previous experience (preferably in FMCG) of overseeing warehouse operations, ensuring materials are received, stored, handled, and issued safely and efficiently.
• Experience of building team capability in inventory management, safety, continuous improvement, and SAP.
• Skills in managing supplier performance to ensure timely, cost-effective supply of critical materials, spare parts, and consumables.
• Ability to work autonomously while motivating and developing a high-performing lean stores team.
• Forklift licence highly desirable.

What you’ll love when you join us:

• Career Growth: Opportunities to advance your career in an exciting highly automated new manufacturing site.
• Work-Life Balance: Enjoy day shift hours in a friendly, collaborative team.
• Perks: Employee Assistance Program, discounted health insurance and salary sacrifice options.
• Visy: You’ll be joining a team that values you!

About Visy

Visy is powering the circular economy, closing the loop between packaging, remanufacturing and recycling. Over 75 years, we've grown to 7,000 employees and 150 global operations – predominately in Australia and New Zealand.

We believe materials are not recycled until they’ve been made into new products. We collect and sort recyclable materials like paper, cardboard, glass, plastics and metals from households and businesses, and remanufacture them back into new, sustainable packaging. From cardboard boxes, water bottles and jam jars to food and beverage cans, we are using recycled content to power Australia and New Zealand’s food and beverage packaging industry.

Apply now or contact Mireille Gaches on [email protected] to arrange a confidential discussion.

You will be required to meet Visy’s employment criteria which will include a criminal history check and pre-employment medical (including drug & alcohol testing)

Visy is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.

Please note that only applications with the right to live and work in Australia will be considered for this position.