Team Lead Logistics Operations

CEVA Logistics; Bleiswijk; On-site; EUR 33,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary €2,946–€4,187 per month

Holiday pay 8%

Contract for one year with permanent-?

200 vacation hours per year

Travel allowance

CEVAfit program

CEVA Academy

Job summary

CEVA Logistics in Bleiswijk, Netherlands, seeks a Logistics Team Leader to lead a 20-strong operator team and 2–4 coordinators in a highly automated distribution center. You will drive KPI achievement, optimize overall processes, and report to the Control Room Manager from the Bleiswijk base.

You will manage performance, develop staff, and coordinate with Control Room to balance numbers, ratios, and planning. English proficiency required; full-time with two shifts (potentially three).

Qualifications

• Must have at least 3 years of work experience in a dynamic logistics environment.
• Experience leading a team in a warehouse/Control Room setting.
• Full-time availability and flexible shifts (2 or 3 shifts).
• Proficient in English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Managing, coaching, developing, and evaluating employees in your team.
• Leading the daily operation and responsible for achieving KPI’s and plans.
• Making the right decisions for an optimal overall process in collaboration with your colleagues and the Control Room.
• Optimizing the efficiency of people, resources, and machines.
• Making improvement proposals with regard to the logistics process.
• Conducting measurements, making reports and analyses.
• Conducting performance and appraisal interviews, absenteeism guidance.
• Ensuring a clean and safe working environment.

Skills

People management

Team leadership

Shift planning

English proficiency

Job description

As a Logistics Team Leader, you are the center of our logistics operation. Together with your team, you determine the success of one of the largest and most automated distribution centers in the Netherlands. In the role of Logistics Team Leader, you will successfully lead a sub-process on unloading/receiving, stowing/picking or packing/expedition.

Your team consists of approximately 20 operators and 2 to 4 team coordinators who are specialized in the process. You motivate and inspire your team to achieve goals and work constructively on the development of your people. You scan the process, but also the people in the process, with a focus on individual and team development.

This is possible because you have daily contact with your colleagues in the Control Room. This is the control tower of our warehouse, which advises you on numbers, ratios, and planning. In the role of Logistics Team Leader, you report to the Operations Manager.

• Managing, coaching, developing, and evaluating employees in your team;
• Leading the daily operation and responsible for achieving KPI’s and plans;
• Making the right decisions for an optimal overall process in collaboration with your colleagues and the Control Room;
• Optimizing the efficiency of people, resources, and machines;
• Making improvement proposals with regard to the logistics process;
• Conducting measurements, making reports and analyses;
• Conducting performance and appraisal interviews, absenteeism guidance;
• Ensuring a clean and safe working environment.

WHERE WILL YOU WORK?

As Team Leader Control Room, you are responsible for a team of 10 employees, including Equipment Controlroom Specialists, Operational Controlroom Specialists, and Process Controlroom Specialists. You report to the Control Room Manager from your base in Bleiswijk. You will work in shifts:

• Day shift from 06:15 AM till 14:45 PM;
• Evening shift from 14:45 PM till 23:15 PM;
• Night shift from 23:15 PM till 06:15 AM;
• Alternating per week, you work in the day and evening shift;
• Every 3 weeks approximately, you work on a Sunday shift;
• Every 10 weeks approximately, you work on a night shift;

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

• By nature, you are a people manager and have previously managed a team in a similar work environment;
• You are ambitious, a go-getter, and able to handle stress;
• You have gained at least 3 years of work experience in a dynamic work environment;
• You are inventive in your solutions and have a proactive work attitude;
• Full-time available and flexible, 2 shifts, which may be divided into 3 shifts;
• Proficient in English, in writing and speaking.

WHAT DO WE OFFER YOU?

At CEVA Logistics, there are plenty of opportunities to get the best out of yourself and your career. In addition to a dynamic environment in which we achieve our goals together at a high pace and in a results-oriented manner, we offer a position with room for fun and connection. This role can be the first step of a broad career path within our organization. The possibilities to follow your own path are endless!

In addition, we offer you the following:

• A gross monthly salary between € 2.946 and € 4.187 plus 8% holiday pay (classification depending on, among other things, your work experience and level of education);
• A one-year contract with the prospect of permanent employment;
• Allowances for evening and night shifts;
• 200 vacation hours per year and the option to purchase or sell additional leave;
• Travel allowance from a 10 km home-work distance;
• Access to our CEVAfit program; and
• Opportunity to develop yourself using a variety of tools in our CEVA Academy.

We look forward to welcoming you to CEVA Logistics for an exciting career!