Warehouse Logistics Supervisor

Job Description

Job title: Warehouse Logistics Supervisor

Company: Frontier Agriculture

Job description: We are looking for a Warehouse Logistics Supervisor to join the Frontier team, based at our new site at Braintree, on a permanent full-time basis.

You will be responsible for leading a dedicated team and ensuring the smooth operation of our facility in Braintree. You will play an active role in maintaining high standards of service delivery, optimizing operational efficiency, and fostering a great place to work culture.

The Benefits

• Competitive salary

• Opportunities for a mixture of home and site working (to be agreed with Line Manager)

• 25 days holiday per calendar year with option to purchase 5 more days

• Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career

• Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)

• Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees

• Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%

• Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers

About You

• Proven experience in leading and managing a team
• Good communications skills
• The ability to build effective working relationships
• Experience and knowledge of adhering to health and safety standards within a warehouse environment
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines whilst maintaining Frontier’s ICE values
• Adapts quickly and successfully to accommodate changing business and customer needs, whilst providing a responsive customer focussed service
• Ability to multitask and liaise with different departments
• Attention to detail providing high levels of accuracy
• Works to accommodate the seasonal nature of Frontier’s business
• Proven experience of working in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of COMAH is desirable but not essential

Your Role Will Involve

As a Warehouse Logistics Supervisor your role will involve:

• Managing the day to day running of the team ensuring that customer orders are met, maximizing efficiency and quality
• Responsibility for the security of the site
• Identifying and reporting staff training requirements, coach and develop staff
• Implementing company procedures, ensuring that best practices are observed, and safe systems of work are being followed
• Creating a positive and engaging working environment. Proactively raising operational issues to your line manager
• Delivering all company policies and procedures in relation to Health and Safety and Frontier policies and procedures
• Driving efficiencies and challenge the process to ensure that the site operates to best practice while maintaining high levels of customer service
• Organising order collation – picking, wrapping and loading of orders on to vehicles
• Using computer-based stock ordering system to ensure accurate stocks are kept up to date at all times and remain compliant with COMAH limits
• Carrying out weekly and quarterly stock takes ensuring any discrepancies are investigated and resolved in an efficient manner
• Developing, co-ordinating and delivering Service Level Agreements (SLA) in relation to Crop Protection deliveries

About Us

Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion.

With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.

Award winning for our commitment to people, we have been recognised by Great Place to Work institute since 2012 and we are proud to be ranked by them in the top 30 UK best large places to work.

Our business approach is underpinned by our core values – Integrity, Customer focus and Expertise – or ‘ICE’. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.

Expected salary:

Location: Essex

Job date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:23:01 GMT

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