Maintenance Procurement Assistant
Job Summary
As a Maintenance Procurement Assistant, you will manage purchase orders, inventory control, and maintenance scheduling to support local manufacturing and maintenance crews. Your role involves building repeatable admin processes, standardising data entry in Excel, and ensuring technicians receive the right parts at the right time. Success in this position means reduced emergency orders, cleaner maintenance logs, and smoother coordination between field teams and suppliers.
Responsibilities
- Manage purchase orders from request to receipt and track deliveries.
- Maintain maintenance schedules, log parts consumption, and reconcile invoices.
- Use Excel and work order systems to prepare reports and stock movement logs.
- Communicate with technicians, supervisors, and vendors to confirm specifications and delivery dates.
Required Skills
- Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (fresh graduates welcome)
- Proficient in Excel and comfortable with data entry
- Familiarity with work order systems and basic SQL (optional)
- Clear communication skills in English and Bahasa Malaysia
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
Job Details
Maintenance Administration
- Keep maintenance logs, work orders and schedules current in Excel and our work order system so teams have clear, up-to-date task lists.
- Record completion status, parts used and labour notes for each job to improve handovers between shifts and reduce missed steps.
- Support periodic stock counts and reconcile variances to maintain accurate records and reduce admin delays.
- Produce concise weekly status notes that highlight bottlenecks, upcoming material needs and pending actions for supervisors.
Procurement & Inventory
- Process purchase requests into purchase orders and track deliveries from request to receipt so technicians get parts on time.
- Monitor supplier lead times, follow up on delayed shipments and flag urgent orders to cut emergency purchases.
- Maintain reorder lists and basic reorder points to prevent stockouts for spare parts and consumables.
- Match invoices to purchase orders and receipts to keep records clean and support timely invoice reconciliation.
Coordination & Process Improvement
- Communicate with technicians, supervisors and vendors to confirm specifications, quantities and delivery dates.
- Translate field requirements into clear procurement actions so orders arrive correctly and reduce repeat orders.
- Document standard operating procedures and simple templates to scale administrative work as the team grows.
- Suggest small process changes based on weekly reports to reduce lead time and lower emergency order frequency.
Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum high school diploma or equivalent.
- Entry-level role; 1 to 2 years in administrative support, inventory control or maintenance coordination preferred, but fresh graduates are welcome.
- Experience in maintenance departments, facility management, warehouse or logistics is an advantage.
- Any office administration, supply chain or facility maintenance certification is a plus but not required.
Hard Skills & Knowledge
- Comfortable with Excel for logs, reorder lists and basic data work, with accurate and fast data entry.
- Familiarity with work order systems; ability to update tasks, parts and completion status reliably.
- Basic SQL knowledge is welcome but optional for the role.
- Practical understanding of maintenance terminology and spare parts naming helps reduce errors.
Soft Skills & Qualities
- Clear communicator in English and Bahasa Malaysia who can translate field needs into procurement actions.
- Organised, reliable and able to reprioritise when schedules change to keep work flowing.
- Strong attention to detail to prevent order mistakes and maintain clean records.
- Collaborative team player who works well with technicians, supervisors and vendors to speed up repairs and deliveries.