Warehouse Manager
Salary:
30-40k
Location:
South East
Position: Warehouse Manager
Area: Kent
Salary: £30k – £35k
The Company: Packaging Company
Hours: 8:30am – 5pm
The Role:
- The client are seeking a warehouse manager to join their team and manage operations within their warehouse.
- This professional multitasker will manage and oversee the receiving, handling, storing, picking, and packing activities within the warehouse, ensuring quality standards are met.
- The ideal candidate is exceptionally detail oriented, and able to track multiple facets of the warehouse at any given time.
- You must achieve inventory accuracy, coordinate orders, and track shipping times, ultimately overseeing the fulfilment of thousands of product orders every year.
- Ensure the warehouse operates at peak efficiency, with customer satisfaction being the primary goal, by supervising, organizing, directing, and training warehouse employees and establishing, monitoring, and managing operation goals.
- Develop warehouse operational systems by determining product handling and storage requirements, equipment utilization, inventory management, gate processes, and shipping.
- Oversee daily operations, while controlling and managing inventory and logistics.
- Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures and complying with legal regulations.
- Accomplish warehouse Human Resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counselling and disciplining employees.
- Communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions; adhering to policies and procedures.
- Meet warehouse operational standards by contributing warehouse information to strategic plans and reviews: implementing production, productivity, quality and customer service standards, resolving problems, identifying warehouse system improvements.
- Moves inventory by scheduling materials to be moved to and from the warehouse, coordinating inventory transfers with related departments.
- Delivers Supplies and equipment to departments by receiving and transferring items.
- Maintains storage area by organising floor space, adhering to storage design principles and recommending improvements.
- Maintains inventory by conducting monthly physical counts, reconciling variances, inputting data
- Secures warehouse, alarms and ensuring testing protocol followed.
- Keeps equipment operating by enforcing operating instructions troubleshooting breakdowns and requiring preventative maintenance, calling for engineer if necessary.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading technical publications
- Supervise and participate in daily activities of the warehouse (to include loading and unloading of vehicles and moving stock between warehouse and production), quality assurance, inventory control, space management, logistics, floor productivity, shipping, and customer service
- Schedule and oversee warehouse team to meet the demands, and manage the flow and quality of work to maximize efficiency and minimize overtime
- Inspect equipment, tools, and machinery regularly, and oversee general maintenance as needed
- Meet regularly with Production to review, analyse, and develop actionable plans for productivity and loss prevention
- Arrange with suppliers the disposal of reject material and monitor receipt of credit
- Manage logistics utilised to transport products to customers and internal facilities, communicating with drivers and air partners to ensure efficient delivery of packages
- Reconcile raw picking sheet with daily production schedule. Highlight and resolve raw material issues that affect same day production plans with Production Manager and
- Leadership Team
- Review inbound delivery schedule and plan receipts/storage and paperwork requirements.
- Stocktake one section of warehouse per week recording information for monthly stocktakes
- Compile prestart and end of day checks
- Maintain warehouse housekeeping standards
- Ensure that warehouse and all equipment (including Forklifts) is secure at all times.
- Attend daily production meeting – note changes in plans for the day/week and revise plans if necessary
- Coordinate, check off and liaise with accounts for all transportation costs and requirements. Coordinate and book transportation for client deliveries
- Allocate daily supplier delivery slots
- Manage preventative maintenance schedules
- Maintain warehouse and logistics health and safety procedures
- Coordinate and resolve late supplier delivery issues, advising office and production where necessary
- Coordinate and managed importation and exportation of raw and finished materials
- Arrange daily transfer of goods in paperwork to the office and accounts
- Maintain QC standards and procedures. Repacking damaged materials
Requirements:
- 3+ years’ experience in a warehouse lead role managing hourly employees
- Current Forklift License
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft products
- Experience dealing with stock management and inputting data onto the internal
- WMS/ERP
- Proficient knowledge of warehouse procedure and policy
- Excellent problem-solving skills and leadership qualities
- Ability to work with all levels of company staff
- Comfortable delivering frequent direct written and oral feedback
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