Warehouse Ops Chief — Scale, Safety & Performance

DFYNE

Uddingston

On-site

GBP 52,000 - 70,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Bereavement leave
Casual dress
Company events
Employee discount
Flexitime
Free parking
On-site parking
Sick pay
Unlimited paid holidays
Free on-site gym

Job summary

DFYNE is seeking a Head of Warehouse Operations to lead our warehouse and fulfilment function end to end. You will own safety, stock integrity, operational performance, and team leadership to deliver accuracy, speed, safety, and reliability across all warehouse processes.

You will manage throughput, capacity and labour planning for peak trading periods, drive Lean improvements, optimise the WMS, and lead large multi-functional teams in a high growth environment at the Uddingston facility.

Qualifications

  • Operational leadership mindset required for high growth warehouse environments.
  • Ability to turn complex warehouse operations into scalable, high-performance processes.
  • Experience with safety governance, stock control, and throughput improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Own warehouse operations strategy, safety, efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
  • Lead daily operations across receiving, put-away, storage, picking, packing, dispatch, returns, and replenishment.
  • Manage throughput, capacity and labour planning to meet service levels and peak periods.
  • Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation and warehouse regulations.
  • Own inventory accuracy, cycle counts, and shrinkage reduction.
  • Build and lead high-performance warehouse teams and future leaders.
  • Optimise WMS usage, data accuracy, and workflow configuration.
  • Drive Lean, 5S, and continuous improvement methodologies.
  • Partner with Supply Chain, Commercial and Customer teams to ensure stock flow and delivery performance.
  • Oversee equipment, automation, and layout optimisation; deliver operational reporting.
  • Maintain audit ready documentation and compliance records.

Skills

Operational strategy
Safety governance
Inventory accuracy
WMS optimisation
Continuous improvement
People leadership
Capacity planning

Tools

WMS

Job description

DFYNE is seeking a Head of Warehouse Operations to lead our warehouse and fulfilment function end to end. You will own safety, stock integrity, operational performance, and team leadership to deliver accuracy, speed, safety, and reliability across all warehouse processes.

You will manage throughput, capacity and labour planning for peak trading periods, drive Lean improvements, optimise the WMS, and lead large multi-functional teams in a high growth environment at the Uddingston facility.

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