Job Title: Warehouse Team Leader
Location: Nantgarw, Cardiff
Salary: Competitive dependent on experience + substantial benefits
Job Type: Permanent/Full-time – 08:30 – 16:30
Closing date: 09:00 hrs Monday, 28th November 2022
About us:
Biocatalysts develop and manufacture speciality enzymes from small to large scale quantities for a variety of industries such as food, flavor, fragrance, life science, pharma and fine chemicals. We are the only company offering a rapid, low-cost speciality enzyme service from discovery phase through to global shipment of regulatory compliant enzymes.
The role:
We have a new opportunity for a Warehouse Team Leader to lead and manage our warehouse operations and become part of our highly motivated Operations team.
In this role, you will be responsible for supervising and working within a small team to ensure all aspects of day-to-day warehouse operations run smoothly within a food grade, manufacturing environment and all products are despatched on time. Having previous experience in managing people and the warehouse function is essential along with the ability to follow standard operating procedures accurately, carry out warehouse activities, and get things done within a fast-paced environment in a calm, focused and safe way.
If you have a ‘can do’ attitude, excellent communication skills with a positive and flexible approach to your work and leads by example, we would love to learn more about you.
Qualifications/Education/Training:
- 2 GCSE’s Grades A-C including Maths & English OR equivalent OR NVQ (L3) in Process or Manufacturing Operations or similar
- Fork lift (counter balance) training certificate
- Working at height
Experience:
- Leading and managing day to day warehouse operations
- Leading and managing a small team
- Fork lift (counter balance)
- Following Standard Operating Procedures
- Manual handling
- Working in a food manufacturing environment
- Working in controlled areas e.g. GMP, Clean room
- Quality, Environmental, Health & Safety Management systems
Knowledge:
- Food Safety and HACCP
- GMP & Health & Safety
Skills & Competencies:
- Leadership & Management – Ability to alter behaviour and opinions in the light of new information or changing situations
- High Quality Work on Time – The focus on delivering quality and continuous improvement
- Results driven – The desire to get things done well and the ability to set and meet challenging goals, create own measures of excellence and constantly seeks ways of improving performance
- Planning & Organising – The ability to decide on courses of action, ensuring that the resources required to implement the action will be available and scheduling the programme of work required to achieve a defined end-result
- Team work – the ability to work co-operatively and flexibly with other members of the team with a full understanding of the role to be played as a team member
- Communication – the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, orally or in writing
Personal Attributes:
- Flexible approach to working outside normal hours to meet business demands
- Leads by example
- Proactive with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Passion for continuous improvement
- Practical and ‘hands on’
- Attention to detail
Other:
- IT Skills (MS Office) – Intermediate level
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Senior Warehouse Operative, Warehouse Supervisor, Goods Inwards Warehouse Manager, Warehouse Assistant Manager, Warehouse Coordinator, Senior Process Operative, Processing, Senior Line Operative, Production Operative, Servicing Operative, Forklift Licence, Driver, Warehouse Driver, FLT Driver, Warehouse Components, Senior Distribution Assistant, Logistics Co-ordinator, Logistics Operative, Distribution Team Leader will also be considered for this role.
