Warehouse First Line Manager | Doncaster | Howdens

Are you an experienced warehouse professional with strong leadership and organisational skills? If you’re confident managing teams, analysing performance, and delivering results in a fast‑moving environment, we’d love to hear from you!

We are looking for a Warehouse First Line Manager to join our GXO Supply Chain operation supporting Howdens at Trax Park, Doncaster. You’ll lead and support the operational team on shift, ensuring service levels are achieved while maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality and continuous improvement.

This is a full‑time, permanent position, working Monday to Friday, 22:00 – 06:00 (37.5 hours per week).

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £28,000 per annum, 25% shift allowance and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company-sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead and promote a safe working environment, ensuring full compliance with Health, Safety, Environmental, and SOP requirements
• Provide strong leadership and communication across warehouse teams, supporting Team Leaders and driving a positive, respectful, and inclusive culture
• Manage shift operations effectively, including resource planning, training, and seamless handovers between shifts
• Deliver against internal and external KPIs, maintaining high service levels and consistently exceeding customer expectations
• Drive continuous improvement, maintaining site standards, and promoting a proactive, “can‑do” approach to team performance and engagement

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Experience in a similar supervisory role within a warehouse environment with proven people management and team development capability, with strong leadership and motivation
• Strong operational experience with excellent organisational and time management skills, able to manage workloads effectively and work independently when required
• Ability to handle employee relations matters, including disciplinary investigations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Good analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to interpret data and support operational decision‑making
• Strong understanding of Health & Safety requirements and confident using Microsoft Office packages (including Excel and Word)

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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