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BM Steel represents the quintessential British steel stockholder from a heritage of more than 135 years here in the UK. As a supplier of carbon steel plates, sections, hollow sections and seamless/ welded tubulars as well as a multitude of steel processing capabilities including steel plate profiling, cutting, drilling, painting and delivery. From 15 stock holding locations in the UK, a global hub in Antwerp, Belgium and an international office in Dubai, UAE we have become an integral supplier to the oil and gas industry, construction engineering, offshore wind and general fabrication.

With UK group sales exceeding 160,000 tonnes per year, we offer a comprehensive supply solution pulling together our own stock and 135 years of mill trade relationships to meet and exceed any project size, on time and within budget.

We’re always looking for excellent talent to join our team, so if you can’t see any position available, please email your CV and covering letter to hr@bmsteel.co.uk


Administration Assistant (Liverpool Depot)

Established in 1955 BM Steel have been competitively serving the steel industry for nearly 70 years.

We are one of the largest steel stockholders and processors in the UK, with just over 450 employees, offering a wide range of products for the construction and engineering industries. Our growing range of steel processing services includes cut to length, drilling, shot blasting and profiling, ensuring we can meet a varied range of customer specifications.

B&M group pride itself in being a fast paced and consistently improving company where our employees are our most valuable assets, embedding our core values of Innovation, Inspiration, Collaboration, Integrity and Excellence in everything we do. With 15 depots and 2 service centres nationwide, we’re always looking for people to join us.

Our Values

Innovation, Inspiration, Collaboration, Integrity, and Excellence.

Role and responsibilities

  • Handling of all Goods Inwards administration – data entry of stock, processing & storage of Test Certificates, processing of Supplier Invoices.
  • Performing Quality Assurance & Customer Service tasks – assisting customers with invoice queries, providing certificates and supporting with general queries.
  • Stock Control Tasks – updating stock locations, processing stock movements, handling ‘in-system’ stock production.
  • General administration duties – answering telephones, filing, drafting letters and other ad-hoc tasks as required.
  • Providing support answering Sales telephone calls and taking messages.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Competent in using Microsoft office programs (Outlook, word, excel etc.)
  • Good communicative skills
  • Friendly and confident when speaking with customers
  • Self-motivated
  • Team player
  • Able to work under pressure
  • Experience working within a busy office environment is preferred.
  • Experience working in a data entry role would be advantageous
  • Handling of all Goods Inwards administration – data entry of stock, processing & storage of Test Certificates, processing of Supplier Invoices.
  • Performing Quality Assurance & Customer Service tasks – assisting customers with invoice queries, providing certificates and supporting with general queries.
  • Stock Control Tasks – updating stock locations, processing stock movements, handling stock ‘n-system’ stock production.
  • General administration duties – answering telephones, filing, drafting letters and other ad-hoc tasks.
  • Providing support answering Sales telephone calls and taking messages.

Package

  • Annual bonus based on performance
  • Enhanced maternity and maternity pay
  • Taste Card
  • Free mortgage, legal and health advice
  • Annual health screenings
  • Free eye tests
  • Pension
  • Development opportunities
  • Access to mental health first aiders
  • Employee Referral Programme
  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays.

Sales Executive (Sheffield Depot)

Established in 1955 BM Steel have been competitively serving the steel industry for nearly 70 years. We are one of the largest steel stockholders and processors in the UK, with just over 450 employees, offering a wide range of products for the construction and engineering industries. Our growing range of steel processing services includes cut to length, drilling, shot blasting and profiling, ensuring we can meet a varied range of customer specifications.

B&M group pride itself in being a fast paced and consistently improving company where our employees are our most valuable assets, embedding our core values of Innovation, Inspiration, Collaboration, Integrity and Excellence in everything we do. With 15 depots and 2 service centres nationwide, we’re always looking for people to join us.

Our Values

Innovation, Inspiration, Collaboration, Integrity, and Excellence.

Role and responsibilities

  • Drives new business by identification and research into new sales opportunities.
  • Builds and maintains contact databases.
  • Establish contact and develop relationships with prospects; recommend solutions.
  • Maintains relationships with existing clients
  • Provide regular, ongoing information on new products and services.
  • Actively following up all quotations raised and providing feedback
  • Gathering general customer feedback, market activities and competitor information
  • Contributes to sales team effort by meeting individual and team sales targets & gross margin targets.
  • Promotion of all products along with added value services such as fabrication and processing
  • Processing orders on the system and following orders through from start to completion.
  • Responding to internal & external emails in a timely manner.
  • Support administration function by helping with transfers and booking in goods.
  • Organizing transport bookings for various couriers
  • Occasionally visit customers when necessary to promote bm steel and its products.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Be confident on telephone with new contacts
  • Build client relations
  • Promote excellence
  • Be enthusiastic and energetic
  • Be motivated to sell and be driven to meet personal and team targets
  • Able to work independently
  • Ideally experience of dealing with Fabricators / Engineers

Package

  • Annual bonus based on performance
  • Enhanced maternity and maternity pay Taste Card
  • Free mortgage, legal and health advice
  • Annual health screenings
  • Free eye tests
  • Pension
  • Development opportunities
  • Access to mental health first aiders
  • Employee Referral Programme

Sales Executive/Business Development Executive (Aberdeen Depot)

Due to site upgrades, overhaul and redevelopment, including major investment in new product lines and our increased stockholding capacity in Aberdeen since our acquisition by Marubeni Itochu Steel in October 2022, we are looking for a superstar to join our sales team!

As a part of the team in Aberdeen, you will excel at creating and closing new opportunities in a steel sales environment. By using a consultative approach to selling, you will use your expertise to identify and qualify leads, leading to sales opportunities with both new and existing customers. On this occasion we are only looking for exceptional talent with technical/ steel sales experience; selling to and targeting Oil & Gas, Offshore Engineering, Power-Gen, Defense and Renewable Energy industries.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Meet and exceed agreed sales targets.
  • Business development within a defined sales territory.
  • Understand our product range and services to promote them in the best possible way.
  • Successfully create business from new and existing customer accounts.
  • Consider and report new business ventures, ideas and opportunities suited to our business.
  • Contribute to our sales and marketing strategy within a defined sales territory.
  • Manage complex negotiations with mid/ senior-level executives.
  • Build rapport and establish long term relationships with customers.
  • Integrate as part of a team success, for a common goal.
  • Support our local, national and international sales ventures on project bids.
  • Diversify sales with a technical approach to applications.
  • Recognize and introduce opportunities for value-added sales.
  • Project management and administration of sales to achieve a successful outcome.
  • Meet/ greet customers and attend trade fairs as a part of the business promotion.

 

Qualifications

  • Minimum 2-5 years' quota carrying sales experience.
  • Minimum 2 Years of Steel Sales experience (this is mandatory).
  • Experience and working knowledge of CRM systems.
  • Demonstrable track record of over-achieving quota, in a steel sales environment.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Good understanding of sales process lifeline.
  • Workable knowledge of steel grades, qualities and applications.
  • Technical mindset to value product applications to offer products, services and alternatives.

 

This role is office-based from our modern, fresh and comfortable offices in Aberdeen and welcome enquiries from persons whom are in a commutable distance, or prepared to relocate.

An exceptional opportunity is available for the right candidate with all the benefits of working for a major steel stockholder. We are at a fundamental period of change for BM Steel and we genuinely believe that as we experience the rise in steel prices globally, this is an exciting time to join an experienced steel stockholder competing on a local, national and international level. You will have all of the resources necessary to meet and exceed your targets, coupled with the opportunity to commence further training via the newly installed Training Academy, for ongoing learning and development.

If you feel that you have the right knowledge, drive and experience to contribute to BM Steel, we would encourage you to contact us to discuss the position further, or by submitting your application with a covering letter to explain why you fit the role we are looking for. We would not consider any application without a covering letter.

 

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Production Nights Machine Operator (Shoeburyness Depot)

Role And Responsibilities 
To operate Production Machinery efficiently in order to complete job tickets as metered out by Team Leaders in a timely fashion. To achieve agreed operational and output KPI’s whilst at the same time maintaining a high quality and standard of workmanship and customer service.

Main Job Accountabilities

  • To load and efficiently operate machinery you have been trained in and to maintain operational efficiency as agreed with the Production Manager. 
  • To ensure the quality of production work is in line with the standards set out by the Quality Manager. 

Job Content

  • To ensure the T Card (or alternative) progress system is kept up to date in real time, so the Sales Department, Production Department and the Management team can monitor tickets in progress throughout the facility for all shifts. 
  • To ensure T Cards are moved in a timely and orderly fashion in accordance with the processing order defined by the Team Leader/Production Manager. 
  • To ensure all production processes and paperwork are completed legibly and accurately consistently and handed in to the correct departmental personnel in a timely manner. 
  • To time manage the material presented to the machine so as to ensure that work flows through each stage of the production processes in the most efficient manner. 
  • To complete the machine job accurately and prepare for dispatch in accordance with delivery requirements i.e. Banded, Labeled, & Stacked appropriately for loading. 
  • To ensure that any Technical and/or Safety bulletins for Processing Machinery distributed to each machine operative is adhered to. 
  • To ensure that data for OEE reports are completed and handed to the Team Leader/ Production Administrator so that OEE statistics can be produced accurately on a daily basis. 
  • To fully complete material quality checks 
  • To act on information produced by OEE statistics to ensure that workflow efficiencies are maximized at every opportunity. 
  • To ensure machinery is operated in line with published SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) at all times. 
  • To ensure good housekeeping is maintained throughout the Production work areas and machinery on a daily basis. This will include timely TPM (Total Preventative Maintenance) schedules are adhered to. 
  • To comply with the dress code, HSE and quality standards agreed within the company and to have personal responsibilities for the application of policies and procedures established for the department. 
  • Ensure adequate information detailing issues on the shift, machine issues, jobs in progress are relayed to the Team Leader, and Day Shift Operator. 
  • Adhere to our environmental policy by ensuring all waste is disposed of in the correct skips (wood, metal, general). 
  • To uphold our company values, Innovation, Inspiration, Collaboration, Integrity and Excellence. 
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Night Warehouse (Shoeburyness Depot)

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Generate (break down) rack locations to create space for new stock.
  • Maintain inventory controls by stowing stock away in the relevant location.
  • Prepare production orders by processing T-Cards (Material Requested); pulling materials, made ready for collection, delivered by side loader.
  • Prepare customer orders by processing delivery ticket requests; pulling materials, banding and labelling consignments, ready for vehicle loading on the night shift.
  • Prepare customer orders by processing delivery ticket requests; finding material location and preparing (writing up) all tickets, ready for pulling on the night shift.
  • Correctly complete delivery tickets and return to the ticket holding area.
  • Ensure all stock discrepancies are reported to the warehouse supervisor or the stock checker.
  • Attend the weekly Warehouse Manager’s meeting.
  • Ensure PPE is worn at all times in the warehouse.
  • Maintain equipment by performing ‘Before Use Checks’ and reporting any faults, via management, to the maintenance team.
  • Maintain a safe and clean work environment by keeping all racking and floor areas free from waste.
  • Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing other tasks as specified by your line managers.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

  • Capable of working on your own initiative as well as within a team
  • Organised
  • Time management
  • Reporting skills
  • Inventory control
  • Documentation Skills
  • Dependability
  • Equipment maintenance
  • Hours: 18:00 to 04:00

Package: 

  • Annual bonus based on performance
  • Enhanced maternity and maternity pay 
  • Taste Card
  • Free mortgage, legal and health advice
  • Annual health screenings
  • Free eye tests
  • Pension 
  • Development opportunities
  • Access to mental health first aiders
  • 20 days holiday, plus bank holidays. 
  • Life assurance 
  • Food incentives
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