Warehouse Operations Manager Craigavon, Northern Ireland
Job description
About the Company
Americold, is dedicated to delivering fresh and frozen food handling solutions through our international facility network using local market knowledge with a focus on customer care and sustainability. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and respect for its rich heritage. Our culture is characterised by openness, respect, trust, determination and responsiveness. We are passionate about what we do, and we want to provide the highest quality of service to our customers and a great working environment to our staff. We value our employees’ contributions to the business and give them the space to grow personally and professionally with the company.
What you'll be doing
- Developing and owning the warehouse operations business plan.
- Evaluating and driving solutions for effective capacity planning, including understanding growth areas and its implications. Make and implement recommendations to cater for potential challenges.
- Advance planning to ensure people resources and capital investments are recommended / available to meet operational growth targets.
- Setting clear expectations, stretching departmental, team and individual targets. Hold people accountable for targets, actions and results.
- Leading and motivate others. Have a strong, visible and active leadership presence, to achieve and excel in target delivery and performance.
- Controlling and improve operational performance, service delivery, financial management, team management and development, legal compliance, cost and quality.
- Driving a strong H&S culture and behavioral mindset.
- Partnering with other leadership team members to ensure alignment, joint ownership and collaboration with business plans, priorities and initiatives.
- Ensuring internal customer expectations are met
- Identifying team talent, developing team members and driving exceptional people performance.
- Absence, disciplinary, capability and grievance management
- Identifying and involving team members in continuous improvement initiatives
- Developing solutions to deliver premium and cost effective service
- Managing operational budget and costs
- Managing legal compliance and internal qualification requirements
- Communicating regular business performance to Operations team & Site GM
- Identifying and executing optimum solutions to improve profitability through resource optimization
What you'll need
- Experience of leading, motivating and developing management and functional teams – operating in a 24/7 environment
- Operational, Transport, Warehousing and Commercial experience, within a fast moving environment, and preferably in the food industry
- Change Management expertise
- Lean / Continuous Improvement tools / methodologies
- Budget and KPI management
- Understanding of Planning models systems and processes
Ideally degree educated (or equivalent experience)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £60,000.00-£65,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: One location
