The Company & The Opportunity
We’re a small but rapidly growing business with an ever-expanding range of innovative products.

We’re looking for an experienced and energetic Warehouse Team Leader to join us at this exciting time in the company’s growth. Supervising the assembly line team, you’ll be responsible for ensuring all orders and assembled, packed and dispatched on time.


Main tasks and responsibilities

Reporting to the Warehouse Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

Packing/assembly operations:
- You’ll supervise our busy production line which assembles and packs thousands of consumer products every day, with anywhere between 10 and 30 staff at any one time
- You’ll work with the Warehouse Manager to produce daily & weekly workload/production planning schedules, ensuring all orders are fulfilled on time
- You’ll supervise the production line team (including a mix of full time, part time and zero-hours team members) and two forklift truck drivers
- You’ll be responsible for training new members of the production line team
- You’ll help to recruit team members and manage agency workers as required
- You’ll implement measures to increase efficiency and reduce cost on the production line
- You’ll be responsible for Quality Assurance, ensuring that all goods coming in and going out are of the highest quality and meet our customers specifications

Stock Control
- You and your team will be responsible for the entire Goods In and Goods Out process
- You and your team will conduct weekly and monthly stock takes, reconciling any differences
- You’ll use your warehouse experience to maximise our storage space and ensure we are storing goods safely and efficiently

Other responsibilities
- Deputising for the Warehouse Manager as and when required
- Key holder for the building
- Contribute towards site and process improvement initiatives
- Set high standards of behaviour and performance within the warehouse team
- Ensure compliance with all issues relating to Health & Safety, the environment and security

The Applicant
You will have the following skills and experiences:

Essential:
- Good standard of English language
- Experience of supervising production/assembly lines
- Good people management skills
- High degree of attention to detail
- Knowledge of health and safety legislation

Beneficial (but not essential):
- Licence to operate forklift truck
- First aid qualified

Please note that this role will sometimes require working evenings, weekends and the occasional overnight shift.

As we’re one of the fastest growing companies in the South East, there are significant promotion opportunities with this role – so if you’re ambitious and want to go places, this role could be just what you’re looking for.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.