Incap Electronics UK Ltd is part of Incap Corporation, a trusted and established full-service provider of Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS). Incap supports customers ranging from global multinational organisations and mid-sized businesses to innovative start-ups, across the complete electronics manufacturing value chain.
Incap combines state-of-the-art manufacturing technology with an entrepreneurial culture and highly skilled people. The company operates across Finland, Estonia, India, Slovakia, the UK, the United States, Germany, Romania and Hong Kong, employing approximately 1,300 people worldwide.
Our Values: Honesty – Trust – Integrity – Quality – Clarity
Our sites offer advanced manufacturing capabilities including prototyping, printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), box build, testing, cable assembly, and maintenance and repair services.
About the Role
As a Stores Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing all stores activities, ensuring materials, components, and finished goods are received, stored, controlled, kitted, and dispatched efficiently and accurately.
Working within a fast-paced Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) environment, you will be responsible for maintaining inventory accuracy, supporting production requirements, leading the stores team, and ensuring compliance with company procedures, customer requirements, and health and safety standards.
Main Responsibilities
- Manage all day-to-day warehouse/stores operations, ensuring materials are received, stored, controlled, and issued efficiently and accurately.
- Maintain robust stock control processes to ensure inventory accuracy within both the physical stores environment and the ERP system.
- Oversee the identification, picking, kitting, and delivery of materials to production in accordance with manufacturing schedules and customer requirements.
- Manage goods-in and goods-out activities, ensuring all deliveries, receipts, dispatches, and associated documentation are accurately processed and recorded.
- Lead, motivate, develop, and support stores personnel to achieve departmental objectives and business targets.
- Monitor inventory levels and storage capacity, ensuring effective warehouse organisation and utilisation of available space.
- Ensure materials are stored appropriately to prevent damage, deterioration, obsolescence, or contamination.
- Support operational teams with material availability, stock investigations, deliveries, waste collection arrangements, pallet management, and other shared operational activities.
- Establish and maintain departmental KPIs covering inventory accuracy, stock availability, delivery performance, and operational efficiency.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance stores processes, productivity, stock accuracy, and material flow throughout the business.
- Maintain accurate records for all stock transactions, deliveries, receipts, and dispatch activities.
- Ensure stores and warehouse areas are maintained to high standards of housekeeping and 5S.
- Monitor compliance with health and safety requirements, security procedures, and company policies within all warehouse operations.
- Support internal and external audits relating to inventory management, traceability, quality systems, and operational controls.
This list is not exhaustive. Duties shall be carried out in accordance with local work instructions and procedures, with flexibility required to meet business needs.
About You
Essential
- Proven experience in a management or supervisor role.
- Strong understanding of stock control principles, inventory management, and stores best practices.
- Experience managing inventory within an ERP/MRP system.
- Demonstrable experience leading, developing, and managing teams.
- Strong understanding of warehouse/stores health and safety requirements.
- Ability to analyse inventory data and implement corrective actions to improve stock accuracy and operational performance.
- Excellent organisational and planning skills with the ability to prioritise workload effectively.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
- Good numerical, analytical, and IT skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively across production, purchasing, planning, quality, and operational functions.
- Results-driven with a continuous improvement mindset.
Desirable
- Previous experience working within an Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) environment.
- Knowledge of electronic component management, traceability, and ESD requirements.
- Experience supporting AS9100, ISO 9001, or similar quality management systems.
- Understanding of stores KPI development and performance reporting.
- Experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI) and mixed-volume manufacturing environments.
Job Details
Location: Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK
Hours: 39 hours per week
Monday to Thursday: 7:00am – 4:00pm
Friday: 7:00am – 12:00pm
Salary: £30,000 - £38,000
Holidays: 26 days plus Bank Holidays
Benefits
Bonus scheme based on company performance
Company sick pay
Workplace pension scheme enrolment from day one
On-site parking
Summer and Christmas social events
Pay: £30,000.00-£38,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Work Location: In person
