Warehouse Team Leader - Nights

Culina; Evesham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plan

Life Insurance

Competitive pension

£100 voucher recognition

Job summary

Fowler Welch in Evesham is seeking a hands-on Warehouse Team Leader to support day-to-day operations in a chilled distribution environment. You will motivate colleagues, drive loading accuracy, and ensure service standards align with customer and company expectations.

With previous supervisory experience in a similar setting, you will manage holidays, timekeeping, and performance while maintaining high discipline and productivity.

Qualifications

• Previous warehouse leadership in a fast-paced operation.
• Experience in a chilled environment is advantageous.
• Strong communication and people-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and motivate the warehouse team to meet despatch deadlines and KPIs.
• Ensure health & safety, reporting hazards and incidents.
• Oversee training, compliance, and holiday/shift cover management.
• Coordinate with operations and HR to maintain efficient service.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Time management

Motivation

Tools

Forklift license

PPT license

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Warehouse Team Leader to join our chilled distribution operation based in Evesham. This is a hands-on role where you will play a key role in supporting the Yday-to-day running of the warehouse, motivate colleagues and ensure productivity, loading accuracy and service standards consistently meet customer and company expectations.,

• Lead and motivate the warehouse team, maintaining high standards of discipline, productivity, accuracy and performance.
• Deliver daily operational targets, including despatch deadlines, delivery requirements, loading accuracy and agreed KPIs.
• Coordinate training and compliance, ensuring colleagues remain qualified in loading procedures, FLT, PPT and manual handling, with retraining arranged when required.
• Champion health and safety by enforcing procedures, reporting hazards, incidents, accidents and near misses, and ensuring defective MHE is isolated and reported correctly.
• Maintain quality and hygiene standards, including housekeeping, inbound trailer temperature checks and compliance with BRC and HACCP processes.
• Control warehouse activity by following outbound load plans, escalating issues promptly and identifying improvements that reduce errors and increase productivity.
• Manage day-to-day people matters, including holiday approvals, shift cover, timekeeping, absence monitoring, timesheets, conduct and performance concerns.
• Build effective working relationships with operations, HR, other departments and sites to support a joined-up, efficient service.
  Previous warehouse experience, ideally within a fast-paced operation. Experience in chilled environment is advantageous
• Previous team leader or supervisory experience in a similar environment.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to share information clearly and confidently.
• Able to prioritise workloads effectively and meet deadlines in a busy operational environment.
• MHE / PPT licence or experience
• A proven ability to motivate teams and help deliver or exceed targets and KPIs.
• Confident using IT systems and standard computer applications.
• Professional, approachable and supportive in the way you work with others.
  Fowler Welch - a multi-award winning logistics provider who deliver a range of products and services to retailers and wholesalers across the nation. We live by a simple set of values: to delight our customers, maximise our efficiency, be socially responsible and promote being an employer of choice., When our staff have passion for what they do they work with more care and attention which is reflected to our clients
  Fowler Welch 'Collision Free Year' awards and associated yearly prize draws
• Free Fowler Welch Healthcare Cash Plan
• Free Life Insurance as a Fowler Welch employee equal to three times your basic salary
• Competitive Pension Scheme
• Recognition schemes for our exceptional employees - monthly winners receive £100 of shopping vouchers