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All About the Role
Reporting to the MD, we require an experienced and hands on Warehouse Manager for our Goodman Steel, Reading site; in this key role you will be central to developing a customer-focused culture throughout the business, driving an ethos of continuous improvement and implementing a strategy that maximises the output of assets in a safe and efficient environment with a well-trained and empowered workforce; ensuring all orders are despatched OTIF. You will manage operations including transport and quality.
Duties and responsibilities will involve:
Specific tasks include, but not limited to:
* Developing a "safety first" approach that ensures operations are conducted in manner which fully complies with our high standards of Health and Safety, Quality, Environmental processes.
* Leading the Operations Team to continually maximise our assets.
* Embedding a strong and sustainable culture of customer focus and continuous improvement through collaboration and teamwork.
* All orders are picked and despatched OTIF.
* Esuring that all goods inwards are received and comply with the company goods in policy and all returned goods are checked on return and never scrapped without approval of the MD.
* Working alongside HR colleagues to recruit, train and develop the site team, managing performance and reward, maintaining engaged employees capable of meeting current and projected objectives.
* Ensure effective communication between operations, planning, and commercial functions to align customer demands with the constraints of operational capacity.
* Make sure your team understand their shift objectives and targets – picking, loading cutting etc
* Having a proactive and strategic mindset, recommending, and implementing improvements and developments and managing growth and change effectively with positive results.
* As part of the operations team, you will assist with the picking and despatch of orders when needed
* Ensuring that all Health & Safety guidelines are adhered to and our people are working in a safe and positive environment.
* Ensuring that all transport issues are supervised
All About You
You will have the passion, drive, and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way.
Essential Skills for the role:
* A safety focused attitude and experience of managing safety, quality, and group policies, ideally NEBOSH trained
* You'll have demonstrable experience of managing an operational function with a proven track record of delivering results ideally in a manufacturing, heavy industry or steel business.
* Excellent leadership and motivational skills, having the ability to engage and manage colleagues at all levels
* Ability to add value, reduce costs and make business improvements
* Results oriented with an ability to drive profitability in the short and longer terms
* Strong inter-personal skills, able to positively resolve issues and motivate the workforce
* Live within a reasonable daily commute to the Reading site
* Able to be hands on and assist with processing orders when needed.
We offer you
* Highly competitive management salary
* Bonus Potential
* Pension & Life Assurance
* Discounts on retail and leisure
* Access to health and wellbeing services
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays