Early Shift Team Leader – Operations & Safety

Royal Mail; Crick; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family friendly support

Sick pay

Funded Dental

Health Assessment

Benefits Account

Wellbeing

Job summary

Royal Mail is seeking an engaging Team Manager for the Early Shift at our Midlands Super Hub. In this frontline leadership role you'll guide a team, ensure safety, performance against plans, and deliver on customer commitments. Reporting to the Shift Manager, you will use data to drive decisions, coach staff, manage attendance, and support continuous improvement.

The role offers a pension, 25 days leave, and up to 10% bonus potential. Shift pattern: Tuesday to Saturday, 5:48am–2:00pm.

Qualifications

• Experience leading or supervising a team in an operational/logistics environment.
• Strong coaching, communication and colleague engagement skills.
• Experience delivering operational targets and managing team performance.
• Ability to analyse performance information, identify trends and solve problems.
• Knowledge of health and safety responsibilities and continuous improvement principles.
• Good IT skills and confidence learning systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead a safe, compliant work area and promote colleague wellbeing.
• Manage performance against workplans and scorecard targets.
• Coach and develop colleagues; provide regular feedback.
• Use performance data and CI tools to identify issues and improvements.
• Manage first-line people processes, including attendance and conduct.
• Maintain clear team communication through briefings and 1:1s.

Skills

Team leadership

Coaching

Data-driven decisions

Performance management

Health & safety

IT skills

Job description

Royal Mail is seeking an engaging Team Manager for the Early Shift at our Midlands Super Hub. In this frontline leadership role you'll guide a team, ensure safety, performance against plans, and deliver on customer commitments. Reporting to the Shift Manager, you will use data to drive decisions, coach staff, manage attendance, and support continuous improvement.

The role offers a pension, 25 days leave, and up to 10% bonus potential. Shift pattern: Tuesday to Saturday, 5:48am–2:00pm.