Opportunity with Rio Tinto - Bell Bay
Locally Based Role
Join our team as a Storesperson at Rio Tinto - Bell Bay. This is a newly created casual role responsible for the day-to-day management of inventory control and warehouse support at the aluminium smelter. The successful candidate will take ownership of establishing and maintaining best-practice stores processes while ensuring the efficient operation of a well-structured stores/warehouse environment.
This role will suit someone who enjoys working autonomously, takes pride in organisation and accuracy, and has experience within spare parts, maintenance, warehouse, or industrial inventory environments.
Key Responsibilities Stores & Inventory Managemen t
- Manage and maintain maintenance spare parts inventory
- Ensure accurate real-time inventory control for all stock movements
- Conduct regular stocktakes, cycle counts, and reconciliations
- Ensure all stock is correctly stored, labelled, and easily identifiable
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organised stores area
- Monitor stock levels and proactively identify shortages
- Pick, pack, and dispatch maintenance spare parts
- Coordinate incoming deliveries and stock receipting
- Organise outgoing freight and shipments
- Conduct quality checks on incoming and outgoing goods
- Unload and store deliveries safely and efficiently
- Raise and manage purchase orders
- Liaise with suppliers regarding pricing, availability, and delivery schedules
- Coordinate urgent parts procurement where required
- Provide accurate costing and delivery information to internal stakeholders
- Ensure critical spare parts are available to support production uptime
General Duties
- Conduct safety walks and support compliance activities
- Utilisation of SAP (Experience preferred but not essential)
- Operate warehouse equipment including reach forklift
- Assist with maintaining high housekeeping and safety standards
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have previous experience within maintenance stores, spare parts, warehouse administration, inventory control, or industrial warehousing environments.
Essential Requirements
- Current LF Forklift Licence
- Current Tasmanian Driver’s Licence
- Previous experience in a similar role
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Drug & Alcohol Screening
- Pre-Employment Medical Assessment
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