Warehouse Operations Manager

Are you passionate about people, pace and operational excellence? Ready to lead from the front in a fast-paced warehouse operation? Can you inspire teams to be safe, engaged and accountable?

Here at GXO, we are currently recruiting for a Warehouse Operations Manager to join our team in Enfield, supporting our customer Iceland. Reporting into the General Manager, you will be responsible for leading all aspects of warehousing logistics across Freezer, Chill and Ambient environments while ensuring safe, compliance and efficient operations delivering outstanding service levels.

This is a full time, permanent position, predominately working Monday to Friday, 08:00 till 16:00. With this being a senior role, we do ask for some flexibility, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £80,000.00 per annum, depending on experience and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company car or car allowance of £505.00 per calendar month, a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more! 

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Daily oversight and direction of the 3 chambers of the warehouse logistics operation across the Enfield Iceland site, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, company policies and food standards  
• Ensure rigorous adherence to food safety, hygiene, and health & safety protocols required for temperature-controlled operations
• Ensure all warehouse equipment is maintained to the highest safety and operational standards
• Manage team scheduling, resource allocation and workflow optimisation across the temperature-controlled environments
• Support recruitment, onboarding, training and performance management of warehouse colleagues and management teams

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Recognised industry certifications (eg: IOSH, HACCP, CPC, Six Sigma etc) are desirable, but training can be given
• Significant experience in multi-temperature logistics/warehousing within FMCG and or food distribution
• Proven leadership and people management skills, including experience leading teams in challenging temperature-controlled environments
• Willingness to work variable shifts and provide on-site leadership as needed

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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