This role will involve supervising a small team of 4 on the daily operations, a forklift licence is desirable and access to your own transportation is essential.
Role: Warehouse Supervisor
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 Per Annum
Location: Chalgrove, Oxfordshire
Hours: Mon - Thurs - 8.30am - 5pm, Fri - 8.30am - 4.30pm
Key Responsibilities of the Warehouse Supervisor;
Daily Operations: Oversee goods-in, picking, packing, and dispatch processes to meet carrier and customer deadlines.
Team Leadership: Assign daily tasks, manage staff rotas, and provide on-the-job training for new or cross-trained operatives.
Stock Control: Conduct cycle counts, audit inventory accuracy, and reconcile discrepancies.
Health and Safety: Enforce UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) standards, ensure daily Material Handling Equipment (MHE) checks occur, and maintain site tidiness.
Cross-Department Communication: Liaise with customer service and transport providers to resolve delivery queries or stock issues.
Transport: Liaising with transport companies and loading and unloading Vehicles when necessary.
About you:
Experience: Proven track record in a supervisory role within an SME environment.
Licenses: Valid UK counterbalance forklift truck (FLT) certificate.
Skills: Proficient with stock software/spreadsheets and confident in a hands-on, fast-paced setting.
Compliance Knowledge: Familiarity with UK workplace safety regulations and manual handling best practices
Physical Demands or role:
Prolonged Standing: Ability to stand and walk on concrete floors for extended periods within the shift.
Heavy Lifting: Capability to manually lift, move, and carry packages weighing up to 25kg safely and unassisted.
Manual Dexterity: Continuous bending, stretching, reaching, and kneeling to check pallets, pick stock, or wrap pallets.
Repetitive Movement: Frequent gripping, pulling, and pushing when using manual handling equipment like hand pallet trucks
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification we have listed. If your experience looks a little different but you think you can role; value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!"
For more information and to apply, contact the Oxford branch of Berry Recruitment - (phone number removed) or click 'Apply Now' to submit your application.
We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. All applicants will be considered on the basis of their skills, experience, qualifications and ability to perform the role, and no applicant will be treated less favourably because of a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010
Salary description
£35000.00 - £40000.00 per year