ROLE: Stores and Distribution Supervisor
HOURS: 37.5 hrs per week | Mon-Fri | Between 7:30am and 5pm
LOCATION: Abbey Wood, Bristol
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Logistics Supervisor to join our experienced and versatile team at Abbey Wood, supporting the delivery of first-class services to our MOD and Armed Forces personnel.
Role Responsibilities:
- Lead as the Subject Matter Expert across assigned stores areas, including general stores, forward delivery, receipt and despatch, ensuring best practice and service standards are maintained.
- Supervise and support a small delivery team, helping to optimise performance, reduce risk and maintain consistent service delivery.
- Manage stock levels, housekeeping standards and compliance checks to ensure stored items remain accurate, available and well controlled.
- Oversee the safe unloading of deliveries, checking goods against invoices, identifying discrepancies, replenishing stock and updating records accurately.
- Build effective relationships with stakeholders while promoting customer service excellence, a safe working culture and compliance with Health and Safety procedures.
Required Qualifications:
- Proven experience working within a warehouse, stores or logistics environment.
- Strong IT skills, including a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience delivering high-quality customer-facing services, with the ability to remain calm and professional under pressure.
- Good standard of education, preferably including English and Mathematics.
- Knowledge of MOD MJDI stores accounting applications, a full UK driving licence and/or a forklift licence would be desirable, although training can be provided where appropriate.
What's in it for you?
- The opportunity to work as part of an experienced and supportive team delivering essential services to the MOD and Armed Forces community.
- A varied role where you can develop your stores, logistics, supervisory and customer service experience.
- Training and development opportunities where appropriate, including role-specific systems and forklift training if required.
- The chance to contribute to continuous improvement, service excellence and positive change within a key operational environment.
- A workplace where professionalism, integrity and Mitie values are central to how we work every day.
There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!
Additional Information
MOD security clearance and DBS Standard required. To meet national security vetting requirements, you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3 years to gain a Counter Terrorist Check, 5 years for Security Clearance and 10 years for Developed Vetting prior to the date of application. All Developed Vetted posts are required to be UK Nationals.
Proof of right to work in UK essential.
About the company
Mitie is a business of 84,000 colleagues making us the UK's leading facilities management company. Mitie's vision is to work together to deliver the exceptional, every day. It is a commitment we make to our customers day in, day out. We are built on integrity and trust. We always go the extra mile to get the job done.
We champion diversity and inclusion and have six employee networks offering supportive spaces for military veterans, parents and carers, LGBTQ+, women, disabled colleagues, and for all races and ethnicities. Mitie has a comprehensive and practical approach to achieving net zero carbon. A wide variety of benefits are available to employees, including additional leave purchase, Give as You Earn, Salary Finance, Save as You Earn, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle to Work, purchase of private medical cover, life cover, technical equipment, childcare vouchers, and more. A reward and recognition scheme are in place and a wide variety of high street discounts are available to claim. There are career pathway opportunities, such as workplace apprenticeships and leadership development programmes, and an offer is made to ‘give back' to the community during paid time. Please ask more about these benefits at interview.
Additional information for internal applicants
Please ensure that you discuss your application with your current line manager before formally applying. Please note that internal job moves are subject to the standard terms for the post being advertised. Enhanced terms cannot be honoured.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.