Depot Manager - Cross Dock Warehouse, Leighton Buzzard Leighton Buzzard, England
Job description
What do we do?
Rhenus offers a great variety of different services: transport, transhipment and storage of goods and products as well as a comprising value-added services. Operating as part of a global group encompassing over 31,000 employees, you will have the opportunity to be part of a large family-owned group benefiting from a global network of diverse skills, services and resources.
Rhenus UK is experiencing an extended period of growth as a result of our continued business success and growth through acquisition. With locations spanning the UK the services we supply are vast from global air freight to local home delivery.
What we are looking for?
Our employees are at the heart of what we do and as Rhenus is geared toward nonstop growth. That opens up long-term prospects in a wide variety of functions-from logistics and project management to IT and finance and controlling.
Contributing your own ideas and solutions? That is your ticket to success in any of our business units. We love a problem-solving, no-fuss attitude, and we also encourage openness, fairness, teamwork and a collegial approach. Individual initiative and a can-do mindset are just as much a part of the Rhenus DNA as stability and farsightedness.
These are the qualities that keep us-and you-moving forward. If this sounds like the kind of opportunity you are looking to take on, then please contact us to find out more.
The Role
To maintain high customer satisfaction levels through excellence in dispatching, identifying, receiving, and ensuring quality of products. Measure and address the effectiveness of employee performance and warehousing activities and employee’s performance, organizing and maintaining inventory and storage area. Monitor and continually improve the Depot KPI’s as set out by the National Warehouse Manager.
· Control and organise storage and inventory of customer products including live orders.
· Management of the onsite team of supervisors and warehouse operatives.
· Management of own driving crews, working alongside Fleet Department on own vehicle maintenance.
· Ensure the accuracy of inventory and shipments, inbound and outbound.
· Communicate position expectations and train employees of Standard Operating Procedures.
· To work with the QC Manager with all aspects of H&S.
· Define staffing needs and allocate workload.
· Interact with stakeholders to resolve problems or answer questions.
· Maintain records, utilize specialized reports (WMS).
· Implement new methods, processes, and improvements in line with the depots vision.
· Identify operational needs in line with development of workforce and daily workload.
· Consult and organise activities with other teams and departments.
· You will motivate employees to get the best from the team.
· Manage all HR Issues including discipline, absence, capability and performance management.
· Maintain weekly reports/ hold weekly meetings with Commercial Department reference Budget/ Resource control
· Hit KPI targets, including Pieces per Hour & Failure %.
Additional information:
· Limited travel between other Rhenus Home Delivery sites will be required.
· Base working hours for this role will be 9 am to 5.30pm, however flexibility is a must
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £45,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
Ability to commute/relocate:
- LEIGHTON BUZZARD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Warehouse management: 5 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 07/03/2023
Reference ID: LB_DM
