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Warehouse Supervisor - Northampton, Northampton
Location: Northampton, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 264a69c72a64
Job Views: 3
Posted: 24.08.2025
Expiry Date: 08.10.2025
Job Description:
PIP Global Safety is a leading global supplier and manufacturer of personal protective equipment (PPE), trusted by workers and safety professionals across industries and continents. With a 40-year legacy of innovation, quality, and responsiveness, we deliver comprehensive, head-to-toe protection through a powerful portfolio of brands.
We are united by a shared goal: to protect workers around the world by delivering solutions that ensure safety, empower performance, and promote well-being. Guided by our core values—integrity, innovation, accountability, tenacity, and customer centricity—we’re building a safer, more sustainable future. At PIP Global Safety, we’re protecting people and the planet, one innovation at a time.
We’re doubling our global footprint through the transformative acquisition of legacy brands like North, Howard Leight, Miller, Fibre-Metal, Oliver, Salisbury, and more—bringing even greater innovation, expertise, and reach to our customers worldwide.
Join a growing global organization where protection is more than a product—it’s our purpose and our passion.
Job Summary
Utilize your logistics expertise and supervisory skills in a buy-to-sell warehousing environment. You will leverage your team's experience and skills to support supply chain services, inventory control, critical parts availability, material handling, import-export licensing, shipment of products, and inspection and refurbishment of rental products. You will evaluate customer support and field service commitments to ensure customer requirements are met. You will provide data analysis for delivery performance and other relevant KPIs. You will lead process improvement efforts and lean tool implementation in your warehouse. As a team supervisor, you will coach your team members in technical and behavioral competencies to deliver high impact to business results.
Responsibilities
* Manage direct reports and warehouse operations, ensuring safety and efficiency.
* Supervise and support a team of warehouse operators.
* Mentor employees and develop individual and succession plans.
* Define, document, and develop relevant processes related to warehousing and logistics operations.
* Manage inbound, outbound, and rental return processes daily.
* Establish relationships with key stakeholders across Europe, including order management, sales, procurement, demand planning, logistics, marketing, and business leadership.
Safety, Quality, and Lean Tool Development
* Identify and manage projects to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and working capital.
* Ensure change management with emphasis on safety and quality.
* Drive process improvements using Kaizen, RPS, and 5S methodologies.
* Develop and improve standard operating procedures and risk assessments.
KPI Development and Improvement
* Establish, implement, and report high-level KPIs; analyze deviations and drive corrective actions.
* Maintain visual management tools like the Tier Meeting Board.
Qualifications
* 5+ years of warehouse management experience in a low-volume, high-mix environment.
* Customer-oriented and safety-focused.
Skills
* Knowledge of lean principles, 5S, RPS, Kaizen, Tiered Accountability.
* Effective communication skills.
* Advanced Excel skills.
* ERP experience, specifically SAP R3.
* Problem-solving attitude and Six Sigma qualifications.
* Experience driving cultural change.
Protective Industrial Products (PIP) is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind and base employment decisions on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive workplace where all individuals are respected and valued.
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