Supervisor

Staffline; Peacehaven; On-site; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company is seeking a Supervisor in Edinburgh, offering a salary of £35,000 per annum. This full-time role (Monday-Friday) involves maintaining performance standards, managing a multi-skilled team, and ensuring adherence to health and safety regulations. Ideal candidates will have strong leadership skills and experience in a warehouse environment, alongside good knowledge of Microsoft applications. The position offers benefits such as free car parking and full training provided.

Benefits

Free car parking on site

PPE provided

Full training provided

Canteen on site

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
• Ability to work as part of a team and manage individual workload.
• Experience managing a multi-skilled team in a fast-paced warehouse environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain KPIs and performance levels to meet SLAs.
• Recruit and train staff to the required standard.
• Field internal enquiries and respond to discrepancies.

Skills

Leadership skills

Motivation and drive

Knowledge of Microsoft Excel

Knowledge of health & safety practices

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

Great opportunity to work as a Supervisor for our client's big logistics company!

Staffline is recruiting a Supervisor in Edinburgh.

The rate of pay is £35000 per annum.

This is a full time role working Monday-Friday and the hours of work are:

• 8am - 4:15 pm

Your Time at Work

As a Supervisor your duties include:

• Working with the cluster manager maintaining and part of the required on call support rota.
• Closely monitor KPIs and performance levels, ensuring that we're always meeting or exceeding our SLAs.
• Implement and monitor individual and team objectives and targets.
• Ensure colleagues are recruited and trained to the correct standard.
• Ensuring PPE is available at all times and colleagues are adhering to wearing PPE at all times in operational areas.
• Manage team performance ensuring all employee issues are addressed in a timely manner.
• Work closely with the inventory team to eradicate stock discrepancies and errors.
• Field and respond to internal enquires / discrepancies and elevate to the relevant stakeholders accordingly.
• Adhere to H&S policies & procedures across your area of responsibility.
• Ensure that staff are only deployed onto activities which they have been trained on.
• Be aware of the customers product range and its impact on receiving, locating and dispatching its product combined with specific transport requirements for the customers.
• Evaluate the impact of volumes on labour planning and take necessary steps to meet labour demand by working in close liaison with cluster manager and agency suppliers.
• Provide effective leadership to the team to encourage positive employee relations through clear communications with colleagues.
• Monitor operational absence levels and site tolerance levels to liaise with HR Department/management team.
• Support with disciplinary and grievance hearings / fact‑finding investigations.

Our Perfect Worker

Our perfect worker will have good working knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.

You will be able to work as part of the team but also be able to manage your own work.

Applicants will be able to demonstrate skills in leadership, motivation and drive.

Previous experience in managing a multi‑skilled team in a fast‑paced warehouse environment and working knowledge of the warehousing process is essential, you would also need experience of health & safety in the workplace.

Key Information and Benefits

• £35000 per annum
• Monday - Friday
• Temp to perm opportunity
• Free car parking on site
• PPE provided
• Full training provided
• Canteen on site

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