warehouse supervisor

Coventry Recycling of Waste; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A social enterprise organization in Coventry seeks a dedicated supervisor to oversee operations in a busy warehouse. The role involves supervising individuals with learning difficulties and ensuring the smooth operation of recycling activities. Ideal candidates will have experience in care work and general machinery operation. This is a full-time position requiring excellent interpersonal skills and a commitment to providing support for those in need. The successful applicant will play a crucial role in a charity dedicated to community support.

Qualifications

• Experience in supervising individuals with learning difficulties.
• Ability to operate shredding and baling machinery safely.
• Willingness to learn and undergo first aid training.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day operations in the warehouse.
• Supervise adults and teenagers with learning difficulties.
• Ensure smooth running of social enterprises.

Skills

Experience of caring for a disabled adult

Experience of operating machinery

Willingness to learn forklift operation

Ability to provide first aid

Manual handling training

Job description

We’re a charity providing supported volunteering and we need someone to oversee day to day operations in our warehouse in Hillfields, Coventry.

In this job you’ll be supervising people with learning difficulties working in our recycling and reuse social enterprises. That includes the operation of shredding and baling machinery.

The people you’ll be supervising are mainly adults with learning difficulties along with a smaller number of school aged teenagers, also with learning difficulties, on work experience. Occasionally you’ll be helping show school pupils on educational visits around the warehouse.

You’ll also be ensuring our social enterprises run smoothly including serving customers and working with our van driver to schedule collections and deliveries.

You’ll be one of the organisation’s first aiders and play a key role in minimising everyday risks in the warehouse. You’ll have responsibility for unlocking the building in the morning and locking up at the end of the day.

This role includes a small amount of admin – mainly answering the phone when the office manager isn’t around, checking e‑mails in the mornings and a limited amount of paperwork to log waste paper destruction.

The hours are 34.5 per week, all day times weekdays.

Person specification

• Essential – experience of caring for a disabled adult. This could be through paid care work or through informal experience such as caring for a relative
• Essential – experience of operating machinery and willingness to learn including forklift truck operation
• Essential – willingness to complete a first at work course and provide first aid cover
• Essential – able to undertake manual handling training and carry out safe lifting in the warehouse
• Desirable – Driving licence