Warehouse Team Leader

I10333 GE Energy (UK) Limited; North East; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Private health insurance

Income protection

Life assurance

Holiday entitlement

Flexible benefits

Job summary

GE Vernova operates a large-scale offshore wind warehousing hub. The role leads daily warehouse and inventory activities, coaches the team, and ensures safe, efficient operations in a structured environment near Dogger Bank Wind Farm.

You will receive, store, track and issue tools and materials, align with planning, and support audits and continuous improvement efforts in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• Experience leading warehouse teams and coordinating workflows.
• Strong stock management, inventory accuracy, and daily warehouse processes.
• Experience coordinating goods receipt, storage, picking, packing, and dispatch.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day warehouse and inventory activities in line with EHS guidelines and site standards.
• Allocate workloads across goods receipt, storage, picking, packing, and dispatch.
• Receive, store, track, and issue tools, materials, and specialist parts.
• Physically receive items from suppliers and forwarders and move them to stock locations.
• Prepare material orders to support maintenance activities.
• Update ERP and stock systems, maintaining stock location clarity.
• Maintain stock accuracy through cycle counts and physical inventory.
• Support discrepancy investigations and non-conformance logging.
• Organise storage to support safe and efficient warehouse operations.
• Coordinate deliveries, stock movements, and material availability with planning teams.
• Support audit counts and stock reporting.
• Carry out area safety inspections and risk assessments.
• Support calibration or re-certification of tools and equipment.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and safe warehouse environment.

Skills

Warehouse leadership

Inventory control

ERP/WMS

SAP experience

Cycle counts

Stock availability

Safety compliance

Team coaching

Forklift licence

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Oracle ERP

Job description

Job Description Summary Based At Dogger Bank Wind Farm’s onshore base, you will play an important part in supporting the maintenance of GE’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbines. The warehouse is central to keeping operations running smoothly, ensuring specialist parts, tools, and materials are received, controlled, and made available when needed for planned preventative and reactive maintenance. Working in a modern, large-scale, port-centric warehouse environment, you will lead day-to-day warehouse and inventory activities, coach and support your team, and help maintain safe, efficient, and well-organised operations. This is a hands-on leadership role, suited to someone who enjoys being close to the operation, solving practical problems, and keeping materials flowing to support critical offshore activity.

Job Description Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day warehouse and inventory activities in line with EHS guidelines and site standards
• Allocate workloads across goods receipt, storage, picking, packing, and dispatch
• Receive, store, track, and issue tools, materials, and specialist parts
• Physically receive items from suppliers and forwarders and move them to the correct stock locations
• Prepare material orders to support planned preventative and reactive maintenance activities
• Update ERP and stock systems, maintaining clear control of material locations and stock availability
• Maintain stock accuracy through cycle counts, stock checks, and physical inventory activities
• Support discrepancy investigation, non-conformance logging, and resolution through the relevant business systems
• Organise and optimise the storage of tools, parts, and materials to support safe and efficient warehouse operations
• Coordinate deliveries, stock movements, and material availability with planning and sourcing teams
• Support audit counts, stock reporting, and general warehouse performance activities
• Carry out regular area safety inspections and help ensure warehouse activities are covered by suitable risk assessments
• Support the calibration, verification, or re-certification of tools and equipment where required
• Contribute to continuous improvement and help maintain a safe and efficient warehouse environment

Candidate Essentials

• Previous experience in a Warehouse Team Leader or Supervisor role
• Strong background in a warehouse, stores, or material control environment, with a good understanding of stock management, inventory accuracy, and day-to-day warehouse processes
• Experience allocating or coordinating warehouse activity across goods receipt, storage, picking, packing, and dispatch
• Experience with cycle counts, stock checks, wall-to-wall counts, and discrepancy investigation
• Experience supporting non-conformance logging, investigation, and resolution
• Experience coordinating carrier bookings, third-party logistics activity, or offsite storage
• Experience supporting audit counts and completing stock-related reports
• SAP experience or experience using a similar ERP, inventory management, or Warehouse Management System (WMS) and good MS Office skills
• Knowledge of 5S, Lean, Kaizen, or continuous improvement principles
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with teams and stakeholders
• Organised, with a practical approach to prioritising workload, problem-solving, and attention to detail
• Forklift and Stacker licence, with experience operating in a warehouse, logistics, or manufacturing environment
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• Physical capability to carry out manual handling and heavy lifting tasks where required

Desirable

• Experience working with technical parts, tools, or engineering-related materials
• Electrical or mechanical background, qualification, or practical experience
• Dangerous goods storage experience
• Experience in offshore, engineering, manufacturing, or heavy industrial environments
• Oracle ERP knowledge and experience

What We Offer

At GE Vernova, we invest in your long-term success and wellbeing through a comprehensive, flexible benefits package designed to support what matters most to you.

• Total Reward: Competitive compensation including performance-related bonus, flexible pension, employer-funded private health insurance, income protection, and life assurance.
• Time to Recharge: 26 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Flex Choice: Offers you the opportunity to take advantage of competitive corporate benefits that offer the option to buy and sell holiday, cycle to work scheme, financial planning, critical illness insurance, personal accident cover, dental cover, option to add family to private health scheme, childcare vouchers, travel insurance and gadget cover
• Career Growth: We provide a platform for continuous development. Through mentorship, open dialogue, and support for professional qualifications, we help you map a career path that evolves with your ambitions.

Why Join Us?

Joining Dogger Bank means becoming part of a major offshore wind operation where your work has a direct impact on keeping critical maintenance activity moving. This is an opportunity to take on a hands-on leadership role in a modern, purpose-built warehouse environment working with experienced colleagues and contributing to a function that is essential to site performance and operational readiness.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different...we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, "GE", in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. "Ver" / "verde" signal Earth's verdant and lush ecosystems. "Nova", from the Latin "novus", nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World. www.gevernova.com