Warehouse Team Leader – Late Shift

Warehouse Team Leader – Late Shift
Crawley
£30,000 – £31,500pa
Monday to Friday 3pm – 12am (Midnight)

KHR are pleased to be partnered with a leading supplier of essential equipment, who have a fantastic opportunity for a Warehouse Team Leader to join their team on a permanent contract overseeing their late shift operation.

The ideal candidate will have excellent leadership qualities to enable you to lead a team of warehouse operatives safely and efficiently to ensure tasks are completed effectively including ensuring all goods are received accurately and are correctly stored.

Responsibilities:

1. Manage the Shift team to ensure all goods are received in and correctly stored, and that all orders are picked, checked and loaded accurately to meet the required van departure times.
2. Monitor the activities of the shift to ensure quality work and productive use of resources.
3. Print any emergency (missed) sales orders after the cut-off time as required or arrange a different date with Customer Services.
4. Conduct and record physical stock-takes as requested.
5. Provide a daily accurate handover report.
6. Resolve day-to-day operational issues/problems.
7. Regularly review the performance of the team and develop the team through cross-training and coaching including PDRs.
8. Ensure all staff wear safety equipment and work in a safe manner complying with all health and safety, training and environmental regulations.
9. Keep a clean and safe working environment (warehouse/office) to ensure operational efficiency.
10. Oversee critical ops report for missed shipments/unplanned orders and report to Customer Services as required.
11. Support Warehouse Supervisor in daily functions and suggest solutions to problems.
12. Work closely with the Warehouse Supervisor, Transport Supervisor and Depot Manager.
13. Ensure staff are rotated to roles where necessary to support the business.
14. Responsible for the safety of others and ensuring all H&S procedures are followed.
15. Work on occasion at other sites within the business.

Candidate Profile:

1. Proven work experience of a team leader/Supervisor for a warehousing team.
2. Teamwork skills and willing to participate as a full member of the team.
3. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
4. Good analytical and reasoning skills.
5. Knowledge in health and safety, manual handling and hazardous substances.
6. Ideally previous experience in the use of counterbalance and high-reach forklift trucks, and powered pallet truck equipment (external licence holder preferred).
7. Full driving licence.

Benefits: 33 days holiday including bank and public holidays, a discretionary bonus scheme, auto-enrolment into the pension scheme, Death in Service benefit, access to the Medicash scheme, and access to an employee assistance program.

KH Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.