Yard Manager Weybridge, England
Travis Perkins plc group
Full Time
Weybridge, England
19617 - 28734 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Joining the Travis Perkins family as a Warehouse/Yard Manager, you will play a vital role in our continued success, providing a first class service whilst ensuring the safe and efficient running of our yard. You will also be responsible for leading and inspiring our yard team who are on the front line dealing with our customers that come into our yard.
The branch
Weybridge is a busy and expanding branch with a current team of 15 staff and an average footfall of 120 trade customers per day. We also have a fleet of 4 delivery vehicles and a full Tool Hire department. This is a great opportunity to join a growing team.
What will I be doing?
No one day is the same as the next in TP branch life, but here are a few pointers:
- Our success is built on strong relationships with our customers so it’s essential that you can help deliver the highest standards of service - the key thing is to be helpful and friendly at all times, you will likely get to know our customers on a first name basis.
- You will be based outside leading the external yard team, processing our customer orders, loading and unloading customer and company vehicles.
- You will also unload our building products from supplier deliveries and accurately book them in the branch warehouse.
- Experience of using a forklift is ideal, but don't worry full training is provided
- Safety is at the forefront of everything we do, your aim will be to ensure that our standards never slip, this means maintaining a tidy and safe working environment at all times.
What skills do you need?
This is a key customer facing role, you just need the ability to provide great customer service and have experience in a supervisory role, we can teach you the rest.
Does this sound like you?
We hope you can say ‘Yes’ to all of the characteristics below - they are in the DNA of all our Yard Managers and Supervisors. Are you:
- Someone that is physically active, as this role is located outside, it will involve lifting heavy building materials.
- Passionate and an engaging leader, who has the ability to create a “one team” approach through collaboration and motivation.
- Someone that has a friendly and outgoing personality who is happy to communicate face to face with customers and build strong relationships.
- Someone that is adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive.
- Someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment.
Being a Warehouse/Yard Manager in TP gives you a fantastic opportunity to excel and to continue to develop your career, if you choose. As a new colleague you will be encouraged to enroll onto a TP development scheme - which are available to colleagues and managers at all levels of our business. How will you know you are doing a great job and developing your career? Simple. We will support you with a development plan, that embraces our values.
You’ll also receive £Competitive pay + Benefits (which includes a half yearly colleague bonus, contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance, sharesave scheme, group wide colleague discounts across the Travis Perkins Group (including Toolstation). Plus we have a number of online discounts at leading retailers from airport parking to theme parks to eating out and cinemas. Our working hours also offer a great work life balance - most of our customers choose to enjoy their weekends and bank holidays which means you can too!
You may not know much about Travis Perkins, but if you look a bit closer you might be surprised, despite our size, we have the values of a family run business and the mindset and ambition of a forward thinking Company. We pride ourselves on being a great place to work that's why we have been voted one of the UK’s Top Employers every year since 2010. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our 5 leading businesses. We operate out of more than 1400 outlets nationwide and have over 20,000 colleagues.
Commutable from Weybridge, Runnymede, Esher, Staines, Ashford Common, Leatherhead, Woking, Epsom and Ashtead.
We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves.
You be you, it makes us, us.
Travis Perkins plc group
www.tpplccareers.co.uk
Northampton, United Kingdom
Nick Robert
$5 to $10 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Wholesale
1797
