Selwood are looking to welcome a Warehouse Team Leader to establish, lead and continuously improve a warehouse operation that supports manufacturing, inventory management, production kitting, service, spares and external sales activities.
As Warehouse Team Leader you'll be a confident self starter, with proven experience of leading warehouse, stores or inventory operations within a manufacturing, engineering or assembly environment.
Main responsibilities:
- Lead and manage all warehouse operations, ensuring the safe, efficient and effective flow of materials from receipt through to production kitting, service spares and sales order dispatch.
- Develop, implement and sustain warehouse processes, procedures and controls that improve operational performance, stock accuracy and service levels.
- Lead, coach and develop the warehouse team, creating a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and high performance.
- Ensure inventory accuracy through robust transaction control, ownership of cycle counting, investigation of variances and effective warehouse governance.
- Drive the effective use of ERP/MRP/WMS systems, ensuring accurate data, transaction compliance and operational visibility.
- Create and maintain operational KPI's, reporting and performance measures to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
- Partner with Production, Procurement, Engineering and other internal stakeholders to ensure warehouse activities support business and customer requirements.
- Identify operational risks, inefficiencies and improvement opportunities, implementing sustainable solutions that enhance performance and customer service.
- Manage warehouse resources, workload priorities and capacity to ensure departmental objectives are achieved.
- Promote and maintain high standards of housekeeping, organisation and operational discipline throughout the warehouse.
- Ensure compliance with all Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality requirements, maintaining a safe and compliant working environment.
- Maintain employee records for direct reports, conduct return to work interviews, absence reviews, performance discussions and other people management activities.
Qualifications and experience:
- Proven experience leading warehouse, stores or inventory operations within a manufacturing, engineering or assembly environment.
- Experience supporting spare parts, service or aftermarket fulfilment operations.
- Understanding of replenishment systems, Kanban principles an manufacturing material control processes.
- Experience implementing warehouse processes, controls and standard ways of working.
- Strong understanding of inventory management, stock accuracy, kitting and material flow.
- Experience supporting manufacturing or production operations through effective inventory and material management.
- Experience developing team capability through coaching, training and skills development
- Experience using ERP/MRP/WMS systems to manage inventory and operational performance.
- Experience managing departmental costs, resources and operational expenditure to achieve business objectives
- Experience developing KPI reporting and driving operational improvements through data and performance management.
- Experience applying Lean, 5S or similar continuous improvement techniques to improve warehouse and material flow performance
- Proven ability to identify operational issues and implement practical, sustainable solutions.
- Experience leading and developing operational teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Good understanding of warehouse Health & Safety requirements and safe working practices.