Logistics Assistant

**Company Description**
John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.
**Job Description** Job Summary**
The Logistics Assistant is responsible in a wide variety of logistics activities including shipping and receiving raw materials and/or finished goods and maintaining inventory and associated records.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Receiving of incoming shipment, checking, repacking and put away (binning to shelves)
- Ensuring inventory transactions are accurately logged in SAP.
- Handle daily logistics and shipping activities including: Filing and shipping customer orders, satisfying internal shipping requirements (Transporter, Forwarders, etc.), ensuring accuracy of shipments and supporting documentation, receiving incoming material and routing to appropriate area.
- Process of orders thru SAP transaction including pick & pack for shipment, issue to Service department, workshop and sub-con/fabricator.
- Handle filing of documents, e.g. Assembly orders, Production orders, Picking list, shipping documents.
- Carry out cycle counts activities as specify in the cycle count policy.
- Sorting of Picking Lists, Production/Assembly orders, Service orders for picking.
- Packing of returned seals from Service to put back to customer stock.
- Developing, documenting, and maintaining departmental work instructions for all tasks. E.g. SAP work flow process and procedure.
- Establishing or adjusting work procedures to meet logistics demands as dictated by production schedules and workflow.
- Enforcing safety regulations at all times. Understand Risk assessment, safe work procedure and Tool box meeting topics.
- Continuously improve logistics operations and processes through the use of Continuous Improvement initiatives/practices. Example: 5 S, eliminate 7 wastes and visual management.
- Collaboration with other departments to coordinate activities e.g. Supplier issue, rush order request and quality issue.
- Communicate matter to the Logistics manager in order to keep him/her updated.
- Address issue and use problem solving tools to resolve the problem.
- Job rotation.
- SAP added advantage.
- Perform other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

**Qualifications**
- Any diploma with 2 plus years of experience in the similar field.
- Working with SAP will be an added advantage.
- Forklift license is a plus.

**Additional Information**

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.