Warehouse Shift Manager

Are you ready to take ownership of shift operations, guiding colleagues, driving safety, and ensuring goods are moved, stored, and processed to the highest standards every day? Do you thrive in a hands‑on, fast‑paced warehouse environment where you lead by example, communicate clearly, and champion continuous improvement and Health & Safety excellence? If so, we at GXO have an opportunity for you!

Join us as our Warehouse Shift Manager, for our customer Howdens based in our Bellshill depot. You’ll be overseeing the movement and storage of goods, ensuring safe use of equipment, and maintaining excellent safety across our site. Leading by example to meet productivity expectations, this is a great opportunity to utilise your leadership skills, to coach, develop and support our colleagues in operational success.

This is a full time, permanent position with contracted hours of 37.5 per week (Monday to Friday: Days, with flexibility for business needs). 

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £38,000 per annum, and 33 days annual leave (inclusive of 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:

• Deliver excellent operational performance by completing all warehouse functions to the highest standard and meeting customer service requirements and site KPIs
• Carry out core warehouse duties, including loading/unloading vehicles, operating FLTs and pallet trucks using RF systems, and working at heights to retrieve and store pallets
• Maintain accuracy and productivity, consistently meeting or exceeding required performance rates through colleague engagement, development and collaboration
• Ensure safety and compliance, following all Health & Safety procedures, attending training when required, and handling products in line with safety, quality, legality, company, customer, and BRC standards
• Identify and escalate quality issues, reporting any potential food safety, hygiene, or damage concerns to the Shift Manager and completing all necessary process and quality documentation

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Previous warehouse leadership experience in a large, fast‑paced warehouse environment
• Competent user of Warehouse Management Systems and delivering operational excellence
• Experience managing priorities, with the ability to plan and organise a warehouse operation
• Excellent people skills, the ability to effectively lead, develop and manage a team, whilst identifying areas for development and recognising success

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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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