Are you an automotive parts interpreter or purchasing officer with warehouse experience?
We seek a person experienced in the automotive industry to undertake the following new role:
- Assist with developing and implementing procurement and warehouse systems and procedures, and then run them.
- Support our project managers and supervisors by sourcing and procuring often 'unobtanium' components for 1900s to 1980s vehicles.
- Manage goods inwards, and despatch goods inter-workshop and to sub-contractors.
- Catalogue, store, and retrieve from storage components from vehicles disassembled in our workshops.
- Pick items from storage for work-orders.
About the Business
Finch Restorations is Australia's oldest car restoration business and is still growing. We have four workshop sites in Mount Barker where we carry out restorations. In Woodside we have a fifth site where we undertake automotive repairs and servicing. Mount Barker and Woodside are both in the Adelaide Hills just 20 minutes up the South-Eastern Freeway from the Old Tollgate.
About you
Your skills and experience will include:
- Experience as an automotive parts interpreter and/or purchasing officer with warehouse or logistics experience.
- Good understanding of procurement and warehouse systems and procedures.
- Be accurate, diligent, and systems-focussed.
- Have good computer literacy.
- Have experience with classic and/or vintage cars, trucks or motorcycles.
Why work for Finch?
- Opportunities: With over two dozen personnel, we can offer great opportunities for people with the right experience, skills, and attitude to make their marks in the professional restoration and remanufacturing of classic and historical vehicles.
- Multi-skilled team: Our team is multi-skilled and has a passion for preserving and restoring classic and historic vehicles and knowledge sharing allows you to grow your own skill set.
- Crafts-based environment: We work on a broad range of vehicles in a diverse, skilled, crafts-based environment.
- Work-life balance: we offer a good work-life balance and flexible work arrangements with options of early/late starts/finishes and 9-day fortnights.
Personal Attributes
If you are passionate about veteran to classic era vehicles, are systems-oriented, accurate and diligent in your work, can work as part of a team, and have a positive “can do” attitude with appropriate experience, then we are keen to hear from you.
To Apply
Please submit your Resume via email to
Applications close Monday, 25 July 2022.
New Role
This is a new role but the second time advertised. The role was first advertised in late 2021 but deferred due to COVID issues and real-estate constraints.
