Warehouse Shift Manager

Culina Group; Rugby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in Rugby is looking for a Warehouse Shift Manager to oversee daily operations, motivate teams, and ensure performance meets customer specifications. The ideal candidate will have management experience in warehouse operations, excellent communication skills, and a strong understanding of health and safety procedures. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits, including annual leave and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive holiday entitlement of 33 days

Pension scheme with 5% employee and 8% employer contributions

Qualifications

• Proven experience in warehouse management is essential.
• Experience in managing, motivating, and supporting teams required.
• Must understand HR processes related to management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate Team Leaders and General Warehouse Operatives.
• Manage team performance, attendance, and productivity levels.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety policies and procedures.

Skills

People Management

Health and Safety Knowledge

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

PC Literacy

Efficiency Under Pressure

Tools

MS Office

WMS

Job description

Company Description

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!

Job Description

Joining the team as a Warehouse Shift Manager, you will be responsible for proactively managing the day to day aspects of the operation whilst focusing on delivering consistent performance. You will also work alongside the Senior Shift Manager and Depot Manager to fine tune the current operation as well as manage and motivate the large team of employees.

Working hours: Monday to Friday rotating, 06.00-14.00/14.00-22.00

Key Duties of a Warehouse Shift Manager:

• Leading and motivating a team of Team Leaders and General Warehouse Operatives in their daily workload.
• Managing team attendance, performance, productivity and accuracy levels.
• Ensuring that orders are picked, marshalled, unloaded and loaded in line with customer specifications.
• Carrying out daily inspections to ensure full compliance with policies and procedures, and KPI’s are being achieved.
• Driving continuous improvement within the warehouse and implementing plans to consistently improve the performance.
• Maintaining a good working knowledge of warehouse operational areas including returns, inventory control, co-pack, delivery schedules along with Health & Safety procedures.
• Communicating effectively regularly with staff, customers and other areas of the business to maintain and develop positive relationships.
• Controlling labour costs whilst ensuring a flow of work is maintained throughout the warehouse without any disruption to the business.
• Completing and carrying out Personal Development Plans for all members of the team.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a similar management position within Warehouse Operations.
• People Management experience - Manage, motivate and support a large team.
• Understanding and experience with HR processes in relation to people management.
• Knowledge and understanding of Health and Safety.
• Ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships.
• PC literate including good working knowledge of MS packages and WMS.

Additional Information

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 33 days inclusive of bank holidays.
• Pension scheme-We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirements so we offer agreat contribution of 5%employee and 8%employer.

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