Materials Specialist

Overview

The Materials Specialist coaches and works as a team with storekeepers to execute all warehouse activities within the assigned segment or location, ensuring goods are received, stored and issued accurately and on time, with a strong focus on safety, efficiency and compliance with company standards.

What you'll do

• Ensure warehouse stock accuracy and compliance with SLB procedures for reception, storage, issuance, return and disposal.
• Ensure compliance with established procedures and company standards to maintain effective control over physical product flow and storage.
• Implement required documentation and labelling per company standards and local requirements.
• Maintain timely input to the Warehouse Management System and ensure accurate stock transaction records.
• Support or directly execute specific processes such as disposals/junk/scrap, field material transfers to and from other SLB locations, tracking financial inventory to rig sites or remote locations, and consumption of financial inventory.
• Perform cycle counts and physical counts as needed.
• Carry out bin creation and assignment, and new part creation requests.
• Input requisition orders in the Warehouse Management and Procurement systems.
• Manage exceptions in physical count, goods reception and outbound delivery postings in non-barcode enabled environments.
• Perform mass uploads for large cards or part information updates.
• Proactively monitor and implement local strategies to reduce excess and ageing stock, aiming to reduce Days on Hand (DSOH) and slow-moving indicators for assigned segments.
• Execute periodical replenishment of MNS stock in alignment with each segment's demand planning strategy, in cooperation with the Materials Supervisor and the respective Area Planner.
• Be responsible for purchase order closure until reception in the Warehouse Management System, monitoring open PO and invoiced-not-received reports.
• Execute cycle counts and periodical physical counts, including plan creation, posting of adjustments, root cause analysis and reporting per global procedure.
• Perform periodical reviews of exception reports to maintain data integrity, including discrepancies between systems, unit price, aged open, failed, pending-approval or unmatched transactions, and inactive parts.
• Proactively promote, execute and follow up internal field material transfers until final closure, ensuring quality controls meet segment quality standards.
• Optimize warehouse bin locations to improve efficiency and safety.
• Implement, as applicable, advanced techniques such as kitting and Kanban to improve local material management efficiency.
• Drive continuous improvement using LEAN tools such as 5S to improve warehouse efficiency and reduce waste.
• Conduct periodical self-assessments and audits as dictated by Schlumberger global processes.
• Communicate warehousing failures (such as damaged or lost goods) to management and participate in investigations and actions to prevent recurrence.
• Comply with applicable company policies including finance, personnel and QHSE.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What you'll need

• Fresh hires for introductory level: a bachelor's degree in economics or any branch of supply chain.
• Mid-career hires: previous experience in warehouse operations.
• Ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels of the organization with operations, finance and SSO functions.
• Understanding of the financial impact of inventory transactions.
• Ability to lead by example in rigorously applying company standards and procedures.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and comfort performing in an evolving work environment.

Details

• Reports to the Materials Supervisor.
• Location of assignment: Kakinada, India.