Job Title: Warehouse Lead Location: Skelmersdale (Full-time, On-site) Contract: 6 Months
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Warehouse Lead to oversee day-to-day warehouse operations at our Skelmersdale site.
This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring someone who can be effective from day one. You'll support both production and dispatch warehouses, ensuring smooth processes, strong performance, and operational discipline.
Key Responsibilities
Lead day-to-day warehouse operations across production and dispatch.
Ensure high standards of safety, quality, and service at all times.
Provide clear, consistent leadership and operational guidance to the warehouse team.
Monitor operational rates and collect, collate, and present reports for Tier 3 meetings.
Work within the frameworks and constraints of the newly implemented SAP system.
Support warehouse teams in navigating SAP processes, even where tasks may be time-consuming.
Bring external warehouse best practices to help uplift performance.
Manage activities such as picking materials for production and preparing customer orders for dispatch.
Help drive structure, discipline, and efficiency in day-to-day warehouse operations.
Skills and Experience
Proven experience in a warehouse leadership role, ideally within fast-moving production environments.
Ability to step into a new operation and be up and running immediately
Strong understanding of warehouse processes, including picking for production and dispatch.
Experience with SAP or SAP-based warehouse management practices is highly desirable.
Able to work effectively within structured systems and maintain high attention to detail.
Brings strong external insight into warehouse best practices and operational excellence.
Excellent communication, organisation, and leadership skills.
ECS Recruitment Group Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
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