Depot Manager

Octane Recruitment; Tyseley; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Depot Manager based in Birmingham to oversee depot operations. The successful candidate will have experience with materials handling equipment, strong management skills, and a focus on customer service and profitability. Responsibilities include managing staff, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and achieving depot profitability. This position offers a negotiable salary and is primarily on-site.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing a depot or similar operational environment.
• Commercial acumen with a focus on profitability and customer satisfaction.
• Ability to maintain high standards of health and safety.

Responsibilities

• Manage the depot facilities, staff, and operations.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, and service standards.
• Drive profitability and customer service excellence.
• Maintain effective planning and forecasting across functions.

Skills

Experience with materials handling equipment

Management and leadership experience

Motivating and organizing teams

Customer-focused

Financial planning and forecasting

Job description

Depot Manager – Material Handling – Forklift Trucks

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Negotiable DOE

Hours: Monday to Friday days

Reference: 29461

Job Description Summary

We are actively recruiting for a Depot Manager to work within a busy depot environment. You will ideally have experience working with materials handling equipment or similar. You will be responsible for the depot, its facilities, people, customers and profit. You will look after health, safety, environment, service, after sales, rental, administration, reporting, compliance and budgets. You will be an experienced manager from a similar engineering field who has as a minimum service manager experience but preferably senior management experience.

Your time will predominantly be spent at the depot and within the region, you will have interactions with customers, engineers, sales, service management and inter-company colleagues. You will be commercially minded and focused on achieving profitability while offering first class service.

Core Accountabilities

• A background within Materials Handling or similar and experience of managing a remote workforce
• Organised and driven individual with previous management and leadership experience
• Ability to motivate and organise teams and individuals while promoting communication and performance
• A focus on customer requirements and expectations with the ability to meet or exceed these from an individual and team perspective
• Commercial outlook and mindset which facilitates profitable growth of the depot and wider company/group
• Planning and forecasting from a number of perspectives. Financial, workforce, aftersales and service
• Maintaining high levels of health and safety within the depot and for your teams. Keeping out staff safe is important to us and you will be a key member of the leadership team.

How to Apply

If you are interested in applying for this vacancy, please submit your CV and I will contact you on receipt. All applications will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.