Location: Tewkesbury
Hours: Minimum 37.5 hrs/week, 5 days over 7 on a shift rota (multiple start times from 06:00)
Temp to Perm
About The Role
Are you a dynamic warehouse professional with Food Manufacturing or FMCG experience? Ready to thrive in a high-octane, fast-paced environment?
As a Chilled Warehouse Team Leader, you will oversee daily operations in our chilled warehouse, ensuring accurate receiving, picking, packing, and dispatch of chilled dairy products. You will lead and motivate a team of warehouse operatives, maintaining high standards of efficiency, health and safety, and product quality. This hands-on role involves coordinating stock movements, managing manual handling tasks, and meeting tight deadlines in a fast-moving logistics and distribution setting.
What You'll Be Doing
* 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 followed at all times
* 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
* Cover for the Warehouse Supervisor as required
What We're Looking For
* 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
Training Provided
* Level 2 Food Safety
* Level 2 HACCP
* Level 2 COSHH
What You'll Get
* Competitive salary with overtime enhancements above 40 hours
* Comprehensive training and development - build your leadership career
* Pension, holiday entitlement and staff-discounted dairy products
* Be part of a supportive, community-focused team at the heart of sustainable dairy
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