Warehouse & Logistics Team Leader

KNDS UK; Stockport; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence technology firm in Stockport seeks a Warehouse & Logistics Team Leader to manage the efficient flow of materials and components. The role requires prior team leadership experience and a current Forklift Truck licence. This exciting opportunity offers a competitive salary, additional holidays, and a focus on employee wellbeing. Apply now to contribute to our thriving workplace environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Attractive pension

Half-day Friday

Life assurance scheme

Company sick pay scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional Holidays & Long Service rewards

Free Fruit on Tuesdays

Cycle to work Scheme

Free on-site car parking

On-site electric vehicle charging points

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct activities towards achieving common goals.
• Report deviations and take corrective actions.
• Supply production departments with materials.
• Organise production components delivery.
• Ensure optimisation of material flow.
• Maintain safety policies and a tidy working environment.
• Schedule resources to meet delivery plans.
• Conduct inventory counts.
• Propose efficiency improvements.
• Engage with quality teams for component delivery.

Skills

Current driving licence

Previous experience in leading teams

Current Forklift Truck licence

Health and Safety at Work training

First aider

SAP – working experience of warehouse module

General computer skills (MS Office)

Previous experience in Warehouse Operations

Basic knowledge of MRP2

Component metrology and quality improvement tools

Job description

Overview

We are currently looking for a Warehouse & Logistics Team Leader. A Little About Us: With over a century of engineering expertise and innovation, KNDS UK is a renowned world leader in rapidly deployable military bridging systems and a key partner in the UK MoD’s Boxer armoured vehicle programme. We are proud of our heritage and our reputation of providing the highest quality engineering solutions for over 100 years. As a trusted partner to military customers around the world, our employees are the very heart of our company. We have a skilled and experienced workforce dedicated to achieving excellence in all areas of the business from Engineering to Project Management, Business Support to Operations.

About The Role: As our business evolves, we are looking to strengthen our workforce with talented and motivated individuals across a range of disciplines to work from our Northwest Engineering Centre of Excellence. This opportunity is available now. The primary purpose of this role is to be responsible for receiving and organising vehicle components, kits, and supplies across all manufacturing areas, ensuring safety and efficiency at all times.

Responsibilities

• Planning, organising, and conducting activities in an effective manner towards achieving common goals and objectives.
• Reporting deviations from the standard working processes and taking corrective actions.
• Take action to achieve KPIs.
• Responsible for supplying the production departments with materials / components by: agreeing with logistics representatives about the escalation of logistics issues to find solutions; organisation of internal production logistics.
• Provide shipping to our internal customer by: organisation of production components in accordance with the instructions of the internal customer / department; organisation of production components delivery throughout the designated site locations.
• Ensuring optimisation of material flow in the production process by: applying Lean Manufacturing methods (e.g., 5S, Kanban); co-operation with the manufacturing departments to ensure correct material flow.
• Ensuring that safety policies are understood and respected within the area of responsibilities.
• Maintaining an organised tidy, safe and clean yard, dispatch, receiving and warehouse areas.
• Ensuring resources are scheduled to meet the internal customer delivery plans.
• Realise inventory counts in relation to Inventory control measures.
• Propose new ways of working to the Warehouse Operations Manager and Supervisor that improve efficiency.
• Supporting the Warehouse customer focus – presentation of image and working standards to internal customers and external visitors.
• Engaging with Warehouse, Quality teams to ensure that all components are delivered to the required company expectations.

What We’re Looking For

• Current driving licence
• Previous experience in leading teams
• Current Forklift Truck licence
• Health and Safety at Work training
• First aider
• SAP – working experience of warehouse module
• General computer skills (MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Previous experience in Warehouse Operations
• Basic knowledge of MRP2, interactions with other stakeholders
• Safety in a Logistical/ Manufacturing environment
• Component metrology and quality improvement tools is advantageous.

Why You Should Join Us

• Competitive salary
• Attractive pension (4% employee contribution, 7% employer contribution)
• Half-day Friday
• Life assurance scheme
• Company sick pay scheme which increases with service
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Additional Holidays & other Long Service rewards
• Wellbeing initiatives, such as Free Fruit on Tuesday’s
• Cycle to work Scheme
• Free on-site car parking
• On-site electric vehicle charging points

We’re also very proud to be part of the Armed Forces Covenant since 2018, achieving their Silver Award in 2020 and Gold Award in 2024. We actively support and encourage service leavers, reservists and cadets to join our team, recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process.

If you are passionate about Warehousing and Logistics and eager to contribute to a thriving workplace environment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. We look forward to receiving your application!

Recruiters please note that we have a list of approved recruitment agency partners in place and we will contact agencies directly should we require support. Any unsolicited CV’s received via an agency will be accepted with thanks but without fee.