Warehouse Team Leader

Neptune; Polokwane; On-site; ZAR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Neptune is seeking a warehouse logistic specialist to oversee inbound and outbound movement, ensuring accurate picking, staging, loading and receiving processes. The role focuses on stock control, rotation, and maintaining production flow with proper sign-off between warehouse and manufacturing.

The position requires daily stock counts and adherence to FEFO principles, with emphasis on reducing stockouts and improving overall efficiency in the distribution center.

Responsibilities

• Inbound and outbound movement: ensure accurate picking, staging and loading for on-time outbound movement, and accurate counting, receiving and unloading for inbound movement, maintaining optimal site turnaround time.
• Full product, containers, and support materials managed within model stock levels, with adherence to stacking requirements per bin.
• Execute daily decisions and prioritisation to minimise out of stock scenarios.
• Ensure stock is removed from production lines and containers are fed to production lines to avoid disruptions, with accurate sign-off between Warehouse and Manufacturing.
• Ensure daily stock counts are executed accurately, with corrective action for non-compliance and forward/reverse count validity.
• Maintain high product quality through effective rework within the team and proper stock rotation (FEFO) to protect quality, including recording breakages and decanting for corrective action.

Job description

Inbound and Outbound Movement

• In support of the daily load plan, ensure the accurate and picking, staging and loading of product for the purposes of on-time outbound movement, and the accurate counting, receiving and unloading of product for the purposes of inbound movement, whilst ensuring optimal site turnaround time.
• Ensure on-time replenishment of picking areas.
• Actively work to identify and remove obstacles to improve operational efficiency.

Model Stock adherence

• Full product, containers, and support materials managed within model stock levels, and adherence to stacking requirements per dedicated bin is enforced.
• Execute daily decisions and prioritisation to minimise out of stock scenarios.

Production Interface Management

• Ensure stock is removed from the production lines / containers are fed to the production lines in such a way that there are no disruptions to the production process, and that all items issued and received are accurately signed off between Warehouse and Manufacturing.

Stock Management

• Ensure daily stock counts are executed within the team in an accurate and prompt manner, and corrective action where non-compliance is detected.
• Ensure the validity of an independent forward and reverse count.

Product Quality Management

• Ensure high product quality by executing an effective rework function within the team and adhering to the company guidelines in terms of stock rotation and First Expiry, First Out, principles.
• Ensure team members handle product in a manner that does not impact the quality of the product.
• Drive a strong focus within the team with regards to effective stock rotation and stock age management.
• Record all breakages and decanting for the purpose of corrective action and improvement