Warehouse Team Leader

Selwoodare one of the only UK companies to manufacture our own pump range for both sale and hire. Our range includes world leading pumps for handling solids, self-priming and environmental clean-up. We arean innovative business with a cutting-edge approach to customer service, product development, manufacture and quality with a pedigree spanning seven decades.

This is an exciting time to join Selwood as we drive our business forward and build on a foundation of over 80 year’s success within our industry.

We are committed to ensuring our staff have the right skills, knowledge & experience to deliver to our customers, as well as creating career paths to help develop, retain, and motivate them.

Selwood are looking to welcome a Warehouse Team Leader to establish, lead and continuously improve a warehouse operation that supports manufacturing, inventory management, production kitting, service, spares and external sales activities.

As Warehouse Team Leader you'll be a confident self starter, with proven experience of leading warehouse, stores or inventory operations within a manufacturing, engineering or assembly environment.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead and manage all warehouse operations, ensuring the safe, efficient and effective flow of materials from receipt through to production kitting, service spares and sales order dispatch.
• Develop, implement and sustain warehouse processes, procedures and controls that improve operational performance, stock accuracy and service levels.
• Lead, coach and develop the warehouse team, creating a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and high performance.
• Ensure inventory accuracy through robust transaction control, ownership of cycle counting, investigation of variances and effective warehouse governance.
• Drive the effective use of ERP/MRP/WMS systems, ensuring accurate data, transaction compliance and operational visibility.
• Create and maintain operational KPI's, reporting and performance measures to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Production, Procurement, Engineering and other internal stakeholders to ensure warehouse activities support business and customer requirements.
• Identify operational risks, inefficiencies and improvement opportunities, implementing sustainable solutions that enhance performance and customer service.
• Manage warehouse resources, workload priorities and capacity to ensure departmental objectives are achieved.
• Promote and maintain high standards of housekeeping, organisation and operational discipline throughout the warehouse.
• Ensure compliance with all Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality requirements, maintaining a safe and compliant working environment.
• Maintain employee records for direct reports, conduct return to work interviews, absence reviews, performance discussions and other people management activities.

Qualifications and experience:

• Proven experience leading warehouse, stores or inventory operations within a manufacturing, engineering or assembly environment.
• Experience supporting spare parts, service or aftermarket fulfilment operations.
• Understanding of replenishment systems, Kanban principles an manufacturing material control processes.
• Experience implementing warehouse processes, controls and standard ways of working.
• Strong understanding of inventory management, stock accuracy, kitting and material flow.
• Experience supporting manufacturing or production operations through effective inventory and material management.
• Experience developing team capability through coaching, training and skills development
• Experience using ERP/MRP/WMS systems to manage inventory and operational performance.
• Experience managing departmental costs, resources and operational expenditure to…