Team Lead, Warehouse (Fixed Term)

Purpose of the Position: 

To lead and manage the shift in meeting the required workload, managing shift resource as effectively as possible to drive DSV towards meeting its financial goals 

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a company committed to providing quality, innovative value and logistics services.  

Working hours for the role are 37.5 per week and these will be worked from Monday - Friday however a degree of flexibility is required. 

The main purpose of the job is: 

• To lead and manage the shift in meeting the required workload, managing shift resource as effectively as possible to drive DSV towards meeting financial goals. 

• To ensure the shift is compliant with DSV health & safety standards at all times, identifying areas of risk and looking to improve safe working practices where possible. 

• The Warehouse Team Leader will make up a key part of the warehouse management team, working closely with the Warehouse Supervisor to ensure a clear communication flow is developed, allowing both shifts to work effectively towards the same goals. 

• The Team Leaders play a critical role in ensuring that the day to day operations and the behaviours of the staff are completed effectively and safely. 

Responsibilities of the role are: 

• Team motivation – Providing the leadership for the teams and ensuring that all shifts are working together.  

• Keeping the teams well informed through shift briefings and ensuring that any issues raised are dealt with and resolved. 

• Hygiene – Ensuring the warehouse is kept to agreed standard through management of clean as you go policy. 

• Health & Safety – Carrying out daily audits on equipment, weekly behavioural audits on the warehouse, and ensuring general compliance with health & safety guidelines set out by DSV. 

• Act as a point of escalation for staff – Both for operational issues/queries as well as disciplinary issues within the warehouse team (on floor disputes/refusals of requests etc). 

• Drive operational performance to meet KPI’s by effectively managing/allocating work to the warehouse team, delegating tasks/responsibility to team leaders in order to achieve tasks in a timely manner. This includes such tasks as providing daily deck checks to capture potential failures to service as well as holding start of shift briefings allowing work streams/responsibilities to be allocated accordingly at the start of shift. 

Skills Required 

• 3+ years experience in warehousing 

• Experience of Red Prairie WMS, LWS, Cargolink 

• Strong leadership skills 

• Good communication skills 

• Confident 

Desirable skills/experience:  

• Red Prairie super user 

• Courses in absence management, accident investigations, disciplinary investigations, how to deal with conflict 

• Strong speaker to large groups 

• Strong conflict resolution skills