Depot Manager

Civils & Lintels; Braintree; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave allowance

Performance bonus scheme

Contributory pension scheme

Life Assurance

Colleague discount scheme

Training and development programmes

Job summary

Civils & Lintels in Braintree is seeking a Depot Manager to lead and develop the depot team, ensure high service standards, and drive stock and vehicle utilisation. You will be responsible for training staff, maintaining safety, and delivering strong sales and profits for the depot.

The role requires hands-on leadership, effective communication with customers, and a focus on continuous improvement to support local communities.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring your customers receive brilliant customer service
• Managing your team well to get the best out of each person
• Building on depot sales and profits
• Having overall accountability for making sure that the depot maintains high operating standards
• Training your team, and ensuring their product knowledge is relevant and up to date
• Managing your stock effectively and properly utilizing your vehicles
• Ensuring all mandatory training is completed and your depot is a safe place to work
• Manging and co-ordinating the depot stocktake twice a year

Job description

We're looking for a Depot Manager to join us at Civils & Lintelsin Braintree

Civils & Lintels main aim is to consistently exceed our customers expectations, we know our people are at the heart of ensuring this happens which is why we are always on the lookout to recruit the best around. Whether it's civils engineering or lintels, our customers rely on the in-depth knowledge of our depot teams so we make it our priority to provide the best training to ensure our colleagues are able to offer their expert advice and support.

Tomorrow's construction projects will be more planet-friendly and people-friendly than ever before. Civils & Lintels exists to help achieve that mission with the latest products and the best advice, delivered exactly where and when needed. Every day, we're proud to be part of a better tomorrow.

Your role, as a Depot Manager, will be to ensureyour customers receive a brilliant service when using your depot. You will need to not only manage but also motivate your team to ensure that they are able to help meet depot targets. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to build on sales and profits, whilst also generating new customers. You will also need to make sure that the depot is running effectively, by managing stock, properly utilizing your vehicles and making sure all employees have completed the mandatory training to make sure it is a safe place to work.

Here's what you can expect to do as a Depot Manager with Civils & Lintels:

• Ensuring your customers receive brilliant customer service
• Managing your team well to get the best out of each person
• Building on depot sales and profits
• Having overall accountability for making sure that the depot maintains high operating standards
• Training your team, and ensuring their product knowledge is relevant and up to date
• Managing your stock effectively and properly utilizing your vehicles
• Ensuring all mandatory training is completed and your depot is a safe place to work
• Manging and co-ordinating the depot stocktake twice a year

We realise that you are more than just a CV and embracing everyone’s individuality is what makes us great as a team. We can give you plenty of training and equip you with the tools that you'll need to succeed as a Depot Manager but you will need to be someone with previous experience ofmanaging and developing people and be great at it.

We know you're thinking ‘this sounds great, but what's in it for me?’ Let us tell you:

• A strong annual leave allowance, alongside your bank holidays
• Company performance bonus scheme
• A contributory pension scheme
• Company funded Life Assurance
• A generous colleague discount scheme
• A range of training and development programmes to help you progress your career

If you're in the trade or have ever tackled a home improvement project, you've probably heard of us. We're the Huws Gray Group and we're made up of a number of brands, including Huws Gray, Huws Gray Plant & Tool Hire, Civils & Lintels, The Timber Group, PDM, NDI and Anglia Tool Centre to name a few. Up and down the UK, our branches are serving and supporting our local communities with all their building material needs, but we couldn't do this without the right people, so why not join us?

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