Team Leader

DP World; Burton Hastings CP; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

DP World is seeking a Warehouse Team Leader in Burton upon Trent to lead a team of up to 30 colleagues, drive productivity, and uphold safety and quality standards. You will link warehouse operatives with management and support continuous improvement across the operation.

The role emphasizes people development, absence management, and ensuring service levels for customers. A proactive approach to operational excellence is required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams in warehouse/logistics.
• Strong people management and absence management skills.
• Knowledge of health and safety legislation and quality standards.
• Experience conducting investigations and disciplinary processes.
• Familiar with warehouse management systems and Excel.
• Good organisation and workload planning in a fast-paced setting.
• Ability to build positive relationships with customers and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead, motivate, and support a warehouse team to meet daily targets.
• Organise workloads and allocate resources to maintain productivity.
• Carry out absence management and return-to-work meetings.
• Monitor performance and ensure tasks are completed on time.
• Maintain health, safety, quality and compliance standards.
• Coach team members on processes and best practices.
• Collaborate with other departments to meet operational needs.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and act as deputy when needed.

Skills

Team leadership

People management

Health and safety

WMS familiarity

Excel proficiency

Organisational skills

Stakeholder engagement

Continuous improvement

Tools

WMS

Excel

Job description

Job Description

Looking to take the next step in your leadership career? Join DP World as a Warehouse Team Leader in Burton upon Trent, where you’ll lead and develop high-performing warehouse teams, drive operational excellence, and play a key role in delivering outstanding service for our customers.

Working Pattern

Weekly rotation shifts: Week 1: 0600-1430hrs Week 2: 1400–2230hrs

About The Role

As a Warehouse Team Leader, you will support the day-to-day management of our warehouse operation, ensuring productivity, quality, safety, and customer service standards are achieved. Leading a team of up to 30 colleagues, you will act as a key link between warehouse operatives and management, helping to create an engaged, high-performing, and safety-focused working environment. This role offers the opportunity to develop your people management skills while driving continuous improvement across the operation.

How You Will Contribute

• Lead, motivate, and support a team of warehouse operatives to achieve daily operational targets.
• Organise workloads and allocate resources effectively to ensure productivity and service levels are maintained.
• Conduct absence management activities, return-to-work meetings, investigations, and disciplinary processes in line with company procedures.
• Monitor operational performance, ensuring all tasks are completed accurately and on time.
• Maintain high standards of health and safety, quality, and compliance throughout the warehouse operation.
• Coach and develop team members on warehouse processes, procedures, and best practices.
• Liaise with colleagues across multiple departments to ensure operational requirements are met.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, service, and team performance.
• Deputise for the Supervisor when required, providing leadership and operational support.

What You Will Bring

• Previous experience leading or supervising teams within a warehouse, logistics, or distribution environment.
• Strong people management experience, including performance management, absence management, and employee engagement.
• Good understanding of health and safety legislation, quality standards, and warehouse operational processes.
• Experience conducting investigations and supporting disciplinary processes.
• Knowledge of warehouse management systems and confidence using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Strong organisational and workload planning skills with the ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to build positive working relationships across teams and with customers.
• A proactive approach to continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally. With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 103,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future. We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades. The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O. What’s more, we’re reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW