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OpenWorks Engineering

Counter-drone systems with optical sensing

Inventory and Materials Manager

Inventory ManagementPosted on Nov 13
Full-timePrudhoe, UK£55k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Previous Material or Inventory Control Manager experience in a high-tech, low- to medium-volume environment.
  • Extensive experience developing and maintaining controls and internal processes in conjunction with an ERP system to improve operating efficiencies and inventory accuracy.
  • Experience with external and internal audits, stock counts, and cycle counts.
  • Line management experience.
  • Ability to create and execute plans, motivate staff, provide strong people leadership, and manage budget accountability.
  • NVQ or similar qualification in Inventory Management or Material Handling is desirable.
  • Ability to communicate at all company levels is desirable.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Production Planning and Stores Departments, ensuring staff are appropriately trained, motivated, and performing their responsibilities to the required standard.
  • Create inventory reports and analyze inventory-control performance, suggesting areas for improvement.
  • Develop and maintain an operational inventory model with the Operations Management Team that defines current liabilities and future known capacity requirements.
  • Develop and report key performance indicators to monitor performance in line with the operational strategy and annual budget.
  • Monitor job management in the system to ensure relevant departments complete tasks on time, and report performance weekly and monthly.
  • Maintain appropriate stock levels while minimizing excess, obsolete, and slow-moving stock.
  • Maintain data integrity and report issues to relevant team members.
  • Ensure materials and components are available to production in line with manufacturing schedules.
  • Maintain effective stock-location and identification systems.
  • Manage goods-in, storage, picking, issuing, and movement of materials.
  • Monitor stock levels and identify shortages or potential supply issues.
  • Work with Production, Purchasing, Planning, and other manufacturing departments.
  • Collaborate with Purchasing to establish and maintain reorder points and minimum safety-stock levels, ensuring material availability while minimizing excess inventory and working capital.
  • Plan, lead, and manage annual stocktakes, cycle counts, and inventory reconciliation.
  • Investigate and resolve stock discrepancies.
  • Ensure materials are stored safely and appropriately.
  • Maintain high standards of housekeeping and organization.
  • Follow company health and safety policies, procedures, and safe systems of work; take responsibility for personal health and welfare and work with colleagues to maintain a safe working environment, including participating in training to ensure compliance and best practice.

Desired Qualifications

  • A qualification such as an NVQ in Inventory Management or Material Handling.
  • Ability to communicate at all company levels.

About the Company

OpenWorks Engineering

Counter-drone systems with optical sensing

OpenWorks Engineering develops UK-based counter-drone technology that protects security and critical infrastructure. It combines autonomous optical sensing with AI to detect, track, and identify aerial threats, using Vision Flex, Vision Pace, and Vision Guard to provide real-time threat information that can feed into larger command-and-control systems. The SkyWall family uses net-based, kinetic capture to physically neutralize drones, offering safer alternatives to jamming, while SkyAI coordinates detection, classification, and engagement across multiple sensors and countermeasures. The company differentiates itself by pairing autonomous sensing with a physical capture capability in modular, deployable packages for vehicles, fixed sites, and large infrastructures, aiming for practical, field-ready counter-UAS solutions for law enforcement, defense, and critical infrastructure operators worldwide.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$2M
Headquarters
Prudhoe, United Kingdom
Founded
2015

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