Warehouse First Line Manager
Are you an experienced people leader who thrives in a fast-paced warehouse environment? Can you motivate and develop teams to deliver exceptional service while maintaining safety and efficiency? Looking for a role where you can make a real impact on a major retail operation?
Here at GXO Logistics, we’re looking for a Warehouse First Line Manager to join our team at B&Q team at Worksop. You’ll take responsibility for leading a team of Warehouse Operatives during your shift, ensuring safety, service, cost and people management targets are achieved.
This is a full-time, permanent position. You will work Sunday to Thursday, and your hours will rotate weekly between 06:00 – 14:00 and 14:00 – 22:00.
Pay, benefits and more:
You’ll be paid a salary of £33,000 - £35,000 per annum, depending upon experience. You’ll also receive 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), as well as the option to buy additional days so you can enjoy a positive work-life balance. Your benefits package includes a company-sponsored pension plan, death in service benefit and personal accident insurance. Plus, many other perks such as a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme and our continued focus on internal promotions, over 60% last year!
What you’ll do on a typical day:
- Lead a team of Warehouse Operatives to achieve departmental KPIs, deliver daily team briefings and handovers
- Monitor performance and provide constructive feedback and coaching, supporting cross-training and maintaining a robust skills matrix
- Enforce Health & Safety standards and safe working practices
- Control and monitor MHE usage and equipment condition
- Drive continuous improvement and operational efficiency
What you need to succeed at GXO:
- Demonstrable experience within a similar role, experience supervising a team and an operational understanding of a fast-paced transport environment
- Strong leadership and people management skills, excellent communication and problem-solving abilities
- Sound understanding of Health & Safety in the workplace
- Basic PC literacy and experience with Warehouse Management Systems
- Ability to work flexibly across rotating shifts
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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