Shift Manager

Culina; Harworth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private medical cover

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Employee discounts

Wellness/EAP

Job summary

Culina Group is seeking a Shift Manager for the Great Bear site to support the Operations Manager in running the warehouse efficiently. You will ensure health and safety compliance, drive KPI performance, and lead a shift team in a fast-paced distribution environment.

You will manage goods inwards, uphold quality standards, deliver clear briefings, and help develop team members while maintaining strong communication with suppliers and customers.

Qualifications

• Experience leading shift teams.
• Strong health, safety and hygiene awareness.
• Good written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate the shift team to meet productivity and service KPIs.
• Ensure health, safety and quality standards are maintained and paperwork is kept.
• Oversee Goods Inwards to ensure quick, damage-free receipts.
• Support management with ad-hoc warehouse tasks and staff development.
• Monitor attendance, conduct return-to-work interviews and address performance.

Skills

Team leadership

Health & Safety

Communication

Tools

MS Word/Excel

WMS systems

Job description

As a Shift Manager you will contribute to the success of the site by supporting the Operations Manager in the day-to-day running of the warehouse, ensuring all aspects of Health & Safety within the Warehouse are maintained and product is picked and dispatched to the highest standard in order to meet contractual KPI's.

• Manage and motivate the shift team in order to ensure that productivity and service KPI's are achieved or exceeded.
• Ensure the highest possible levels of health, safety and hygiene are upheld so that legislative and quality requirements can be complied with, ensuring relevant paperwork is completed and retained.
• Ensuring the highest levels of Quality and compliance are maintained and that the site operates to the Audit standard required.
• Deliver communication briefings so that all shifts are aware of all Company and local issues and employees are able to offer input / improvements and feel involved.
• Manage Goods Inwards area to ensure that receipts are made quickly and without damaging goods so that stock is available to satisfy orders.
• Develop all team members so that their contributions to the Warehouse can be maximised and succession plan.
• Carry out disciplinary / grievance interviews and investigations in line with Company procedure.
• Monitor and control sickness absence levels in line with Company policy and carry out return to work interviews effectively and efficiently.
• Monitor and control time and attendance system.
• To offer regular feedback, formal and informal, on team and individual performance, including behavioural issues and highlighting good performance and areas for further development.
• Man power planning, by ensuring the appropriate levels of overtime and agency workers to efficiently and cost effectively run the shift.
• Enforce and adhere all Company policies and procedures.
• Monitor and control training for teams, ensuring the correct amount of health & safety representation on shift, i.e. First Aiders, Fire Marshalls etc.
• Support Management in any ad-hoc duties within the Warehouse function.
  Able to demonstrate a high level of attention to detail.
• Should have good oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the capacity to network with suppliers and customers.
• Ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure.
• Effectively prioritise work load in order to meet set deadlines.
• Ability to efficiently lead a team, delegate, supervise functions and keep staff motivated.
• Able to work as part of a team or individually.
• Must be flexible in approach to work and shift patterns.
• PC Literate in MS Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Working knowledge of WMS systems would be useful but not essential.
  Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.

At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive… A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!
Working hours: 40 hours per week Monday - Friday (nights) with shifts 22:00 - 06:00, As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers. Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives. Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Annual Leave - Competitive holiday entitlement of 25 Days + Bank Holidays
• Company Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When we achieve our goals you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
• Private Medical Cover - This gives you peace of mind, you have choice, flexibility and speed of access to the most clinically appropriate care via Bupa
• Pension scheme - we want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirements so we offer a great contribution of 5% employee and 8% employer
• Life Assurance - x4 your annual salary
• Wellness - Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year
• Eye Care Vouchers - We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses
• Reward & Recognition - We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the month and year, special recognition and long service awards.
• Everyday discounts - via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!