Warehouse Manager - Bristol

Lucid Recruitment are working with a global provider within the used and new telecom and data equipment industry. Due to growth, they are looking for an experienced Warehouse Manager to join their team.

Reporting to the Operations Manager the Warehouse Manager is responsible for overseeing the daily operations within the warehouse and its staff. You will be responsible for all the warehouse functions and be the main point of contact as an essential part of the supply chain process.

This means that you will have to be experienced in warehousing, managing warehouse staff, processes, and a warehouse management system. You will be in charge of maintaining safety standards to ensure that products are receipted, handled, despatched, and delivered safely and efficiently.

The role will require you to train new and existing staff in line with job expectancies and capabilities and ensure their performance is adequate for any role within the operational structure.

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership, coaching and management of staff and their job functions with an understanding of details, to ensure execution and processing of daily work and equipment movement and management.
• Organise the recruitment and training of staff, as well as monitoring staff performance and progress
• Motivate, organise, and encourage teamwork within the workforce to ensure productivity targets are met or exceeded
• Review incoming inventory schedule daily and coordinate with various functions to make sure that goods are available and on time.
• Maintain an equipment structure and level to accomplish the operational requirements of Order Management and Receiving in a safe, effective manner.
• Ensure all operational teams accurately support the business requirements effectively.
• Manage the daily operations and provide help and guidance when discrepancies arise.
• Ensure a safe work environment in all areas of responsibility and mitigate any unsafe scenario with priority aligned with business procedures.
• Ensure timely compliance with workplace policies and procedures, including HR policies and Health & Safety standards.
• Work closely with operational supervisors and stakeholders to ensure that workload tasks are completed according to schedule.
• Measure and report the effectiveness of warehousing activities and employee’s performance.
• Interface with stakeholders to answer questions or solve problems.
• Identify areas of improvement and adjust existing work procedures and practices.

Requirements and skills:

• 1-3 years’ experience managing direct reports.
• Highly motivated, persistent, and able to cope with requirements of a fast-paced environment.
• Motivate and support staff in achieving agreed goals.
• Ability to multitask and keep multiple tasks moving forward.
• Proven ability to work well with others.
• Professional communication and strong organisational skills.
• Knowledge of planning, inventory levels and equipment movement.
• Ability to use material handling.
• Ability to maintain a high level of physical repetitive tasks working with others when assistance is required.
• Professional communication and strong organisational skills.
• Knowledge of planning, inventory levels and equipment movement.
• Oversee training and evaluating the performance standards for assigned warehouse staff.
• Assign work to staff to do their best while completing all tasks properly with efficiency.
• Report to Operations Manager with updates on the state of operations, identifying state of current and forecasted workload.
• Quality expectations overseeing the completion of a task or responsibility in manner that meets all required standards.
• Timeliness of tasks at hand, being responsible in meeting requirements on or before the stated deadline using the allocate resource available.

Benefit Package

• Competitive salary with annual bonus and pension
• Working week of Monday to Friday 08:00 -17:00 (1 hour for lunch)
• Friendly and supportive working environment
• Free on-site parking