Team Manager (Night Shift)
Salary starting at GBP 36,353 plus GBP 906.12 per month shift allowance, 10 bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and generous pension scheme
Full timePermanent
Midlands Super Hub, Dirft Drive, Crick, NN6 7GZ
We have an exciting opportunity for a Night Shift Team Manager to join us at our Midlands Super Hub in Crick to help us continue to improve and deliver the best service. You could be part of an experienced, inclusive, and effective team within a busy and secure environment with plenty of development opportunity.
About Us
At Royal Mail, we're committed to being the best delivery service in the UK.As the world continues to develop, we develop too; keeping up with the times and providing the best for our colleagues and customers; creating a Royal Mail they can rely on, now and in the future.
As part of our strategy, Royal Mail has created a network of new and exciting automated Parcel Hubs, the largest of its kind in the Royal Mail network being the Midlands Super Hub. These Hubs will be world:class; providing state:of:the:art automation sortation solutions helping us to ensure we continue to excel at providing a great service to all our customers and the communities we deliver to. We are looking for a passionate, motivated, and experienced Team Manager who is looking for a new challenge to join the Hubs leadership team and be part of our future. You will play an instrumental part in the fast:paced environment of the Hub, managing and leading our Hub teams to build trusted relationships and delivering a world class automated operation with the capability to process 40,000 parcels an hour.
Could you be a key part of this amazing transformation?
What does the role involve?
This is a role where you can take control and make a difference. During the night shift, employees and engineers will look to you to lead the way. You'll motivate them to achieve their best every day and work with them over time to help them develop and reach their potential. It'll be up to you to help the team to meet a range of operational targets, each one critical to improving our offering to customers, saving them money on a fast, high:quality service.
The Team Manager is responsible for daily work plan clearance to achieve performance and budgetary targets through participation, motivation, and cross functional workings and in:flight decision making. It is vital as a Team Manager to create and support the environment in which trust between colleagues both frontline and managerial, underpins our focus to achieve excellence. This role must have the ability to provide systematic and organised approach to day:to:day operation clearance. Furthermore, the role will be responsible for pursuing achievement of safety, quality, financial, customer, automation, and employee targets and objectives.
The Team Manager is responsible for first line HR processes, such as Conduct and Attendance, Engagement, Performance, and more, and for measurement and display of key metrics for the work area, and the analysis, and continuous improvement of them. You will be managing up to 50 staff in your work area, requiring management of complex systems, and also matrix management of additional staff across the unit.
Other responsibilities include:
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:Managing the movement of mail on a structured workplan, such as arrivals to dispatches.
:Ensuring quality of service for long distance mail, critical time trailers, and demanding containers, requiring a high level of focus.
:Engage and coordinating a team of people, driving performance, and identifying improvement.
:Supervising manual operations of containers and other systems.
It's an important time in our history as we make tech a bigger part of our operation and you'll be essential in helping our people to adapt and us to grow and evolve.
What skills and experience are we looking for?
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