Farm Stores Officer
- Bura Tana, Kenya
- Full-Time
- On-Site
Job Description:
1. Inventory Management & Stock Control: Receive, inspect, record, store, issue, and monitor all farm inventory in accordance with approved procedures while maintaining optimum stock levels, ensuring stock accuracy, preventing stock losses, and safeguarding Company assets through effective inventory control systems.
2. Goods Receiving & Inspection: Verify all incoming deliveries against purchase orders, delivery notes, and technical specifications by conducting quantity and quality inspections, documenting discrepancies, coordinating with Procurement and user departments, and ensuring only approved materials are accepted into the stores.
3. Materials Issuance & Distribution: Issue agricultural inputs, engineering spares, irrigation materials, fuel, tools, PPE, chemicals, fertilizers, and general consumables to authorized users against approved requisitions while maintaining complete issuance records and ensuring timely availability of materials to support operational activities.
4. Stock Monitoring & Replenishment: Continuously monitor inventory levels, establish minimum and maximum stock levels, identify slow-moving, obsolete, and fast-moving items, prepare replenishment reports, and initiate timely stock re-order recommendations to prevent stock-outs and operational interruptions.
5. Storekeeping & Warehouse Management: Maintain orderly, clean, secure, and well-organized stores through proper shelving, labelling, stacking, stock rotation (FIFO/FEFO where applicable), housekeeping, and storage practices that preserve the quality and integrity of all inventory items.
6. Inventory Verification & Reporting: Conduct routine stock counts, cycle counts, and periodic physical inventory verification, investigate stock variances, reconcile inventory records, prepare stock reports, and provide accurate inventory information to management for operational and financial decision-making.
7. Documentation & Systems Management: Maintain accurate stores records including Goods Received Notes (GRNs), Stores Requisition Vouchers (SRVs), bin cards, stock registers, inventory ledgers, stock adjustment records, disposal records, and computerized inventory management systems while ensuring complete audit trails.
8. Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Compliance: Ensure safe storage and handling of fertilizers, pesticides, chemicals, fuel, lubricants, and other hazardous materials by enforcing PPE usage, maintaining appropriate safety signage, complying with Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), supporting fire prevention measures, and ensuring environmentally responsible waste management and disposal practices.