Warehouse Team Leader – Late Shift

KHR - Recruitment Specialists; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in Crawley is seeking a Warehouse Team Leader for the late shift (3pm - midnight). The role involves managing a team, ensuring efficient operation, and maintaining safety standards. Qualifications include team leadership experience, strong communication skills, and ideally, experience with forklift operation. The position offers 33 days holiday and various benefits.

Benefits

33 days holiday

Discretionary bonus scheme

Auto-enrolment into pension scheme

Death in Service benefit

Access to Medicash scheme

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Proven work experience of a team leader/Supervisor for a warehousing team.
• Ideally previous experience in the use of counterbalance and high-reach forklift trucks.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Shift team to ensure all goods are received in and correctly stored.
• Monitor the activities of the shift to ensure quality work and productive use of resources.
• Provide a daily accurate handover report.

Skills

Teamwork skills

Excellent communication skills

Good analytical and reasoning skills

Knowledge in health and safety

Education

Full driving licence

Tools

Counterbalance forklift truck

High-reach forklift truck

Powered pallet truck equipment

Job description

Overview

Warehouse Team Leader – Late Shift, Crawley. £30,000 – £31,500pa. Monday to Friday 3pm – 12am (Midnight).

Responsibilities

• Manage the Shift team to ensure all goods are received in and correctly stored, and that all orders are picked, checked and loaded accurately to meet the required van departure times
• Monitor the activities of the shift to ensure quality work and productive use of resources
• Print any emergency (missed) sales orders after the cut-off time as required or arrange a different date with Customer Services
• Conduct and record physical stock-takes as requested
• Provide a daily accurate handover report
• Resolve day to day operational issues/problems – service
• Regularly review the performance of the team and develop the team through cross-training and coaching including PDRs
• Ensure all staff wear safety equipment and work in a safe manner complying with all health and safety, training and environmental regulations
• Keep a clean and safe working environment (warehouse/office) to ensure operational efficiency
• Oversee critical ops report for missed shipments/unplanned orders and report to Customer Services as required
• Support Warehouse Supervisor in daily functions and suggest solutions to problems
• Work closely with the Warehouse Supervisor, Transport Supervisor and Depot Manager
• Ensure staff are rotated to roles where necessary to support the business
• Responsible for the safety of others and ensuring all H&S procedures are followed
• Work on occasion at other sites within the business

Candidate Profile (Qualifications)

• Proven work experience of a team leader/Supervisor for a warehousing team
• Teamwork skills and willing to participate as a full member of the team
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Good analytical and reasoning skills
• Knowledge in health and safety, manual handling and hazardous substances
• Ideally previous experience in the use of counterbalance and high-reach forklift trucks, and powered pallet truck equipment (external licence holder preferred)
• Full driving licence

Benefits

• 33 days holiday including bank and public holidays, a discretionary bonus scheme, auto-enrolment into the pension scheme, Death in Service benefit, access to the Medicash scheme, and access to an employee assistance program

About KH Recruitment

KH Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. KHR – Recruitment Specialists is a trading name of KH Recruitment Ltd