Make your mark with Thiess
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About The Role
Thiess seeks a highly motivated and experienced Senior Inventory Management Specialist to join our Operational Support team based in our newly renovated office in South Bank, Brisbane.
As Senior Inventory Management Specialist, you will ensure effective inventory management through high-level data analysis and reporting. You will be primarily responsible for ensuring MRO inventory is effectively managed within the group’s governance framework whilst meeting the operational needs of our Australian projects and facilities.
Key responsibilities of this role include:
- Drive the optimisation of inventory to meet operational requirements while managing the risk of excess and non-moving inventory
- Provide high quality and timely inventory reporting and analysis
- Lead inventory management improvement projects
- Lead inventory planning and utilization of existing inventory through DRP
- Lead inventory cataloguing and maintenance of master data
- Maintain inventory ledger integrity and item costing
- Develop and review inventory management procedures and guidelines
- Make informed, data driven, recommendations to improve service levels and best practice inventory management
The role may require domestic travel to support inventory management and improvement projects.
Key projects:
- New inventory item number: Implementing new inventory item numbers, including data mapping and process development.
- MRP (Materials Resource Planning): Overseeing MRP implementation, including change management, data mapping, and process development.
- Inventory Optimisation Analysis: Conducting analysis to optimise inventory levels and improve efficiency.
- Master Data Management: Ensuring accurate and up-to-date master data for inventory.
About You
This role will best suit someone who has:
- Tertiary qualification, preferably in supply chain or warehouse operations
- Advanced Excel and data analysis (Experience developing PowerBI reports is highly regarded)
- Advanced understanding of MRO inventory and warehouse management systems and processes
- Proficient in inventory management software (JDE highly regarded) and optimisation software
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills to drive strategic outcomes
Please note that this role will be a permanent position and applications for this role will close at midnight on Monday 12 January 2026.
What Thiess Can Do for You
- Help to build on your career, offering diverse opportunities to expand your skill set
- Flexible working arrangements
- Recently renovated corporate head office located in South Bank, Brisbane
- Health & wellbeing programs
- On-site gymnasium
- A range of corporate discounts, including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products
About Us
Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.
The pioneering spirit of our founders – the legendary Thiess brothers – is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.
At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining.
We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning – supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining.
We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers.
We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of everyone matters always. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included and empowered.
Learn more http://thiess.com/makeyourmark
Should you require assistance applying for this opportunity, please contact us at hiring@thiess.com
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