Are you an experienced Warehouse professional with the skills to lead, supervise, and motivate warehouse operatives to achieve operational targets?
Are you comfortable working in a chilled environment?
GMP Recruitment are proud to be partnered with a family run food manufacturing business located in Tewkesbury. We are currently recruiting for a Warehouse Team Leader to join their team on a full-time, permanent basis. The successful candidate will oversee daily operations in a chilled warehouse, ensuring accurate receiving, picking, packing, and dispatch of chilled products. You will lead and motivate a team of warehouse operatives, maintaining high standards of efficiency, health and safety, and product quality.
You will be working a minimum of 37.5 hours per week, 5 days over 7 on a rotating shift pattern (various start times from 06:00am) please only apply of you can commit to this.
Hourly pay of £15.42 p/h plus overtime enhancements after 40 hours.
This hands-on role involves coordinating stock movements, managing manual handling tasks, and meeting tight deadlines in a fast-moving logistics and distribution setting.
Warehouse Team Leader main duties:
· Lead, supervise, and motivate warehouse operatives to achieve operational targets
· Manage stock movements, ensuring product codes match picking tickets
· Oversee safe and efficient loading and unloading of delivery vehicles
· Ensure safe manual handling procedures are always followed
· Maintain a clean, safe, and organised chilled warehouse environment
· Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and food hygiene standards
· Provide training, coaching, and support to team members
Warehouse Team Leader required skills and experience:
· Proven experience in a busy warehouse environment – ideally in food manufacturing, FMCG, chilled distribution, or logistics
· Strong leadership and communication skills with a solutions-focused approach
· Ability to thrive under pressure and adapt to changing priorities
· Flexibility to work different shifts, including early starts from 06:00
· Knowledge of safe working practices and strong attention to detail
· Ideally a current Counterbalance Forklift Licence or Powered Pallet Truck (PPT) licence – training available for suitable candidates
An immediate start can be available for the successful candidate.
If the above role sounds perfect for you, or you require more information, please click apply or contact GMP Recruitment for more information.
GMP Recruitment are recruiting for this role on behalf of their client and are acting as an Employment Agency