About this opportunity
The Warehouse Manager is responsible for developing and implementing the Warehouse plan to ensure that the team is working safely and well together, the customer requirements are being met and that the budgeted profit result is being delivered.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Apply and coach the team to utilise the necessary Lean and OPEX tools
- Manage the daily tasks efficiency, DIFOT and Asset Utilisation using appropriate software to report, coach, investigate to ultimately improve overall efficiency.
- Manage the adherence to agreed customer KPIs.
- Facilitate the use of preventative maintenance techniques and coordinate forklifts as well as other equipment in the area of responsibility
- Monitor sales orders and run backorder reports
- Respond to sales & customer service requests
- Incident management including of reporting, investigating and close-out of WHSE incidents.
- Instilling a culture whereby risks are identified, assessed and controlled for all activities on site.
- Communicating training dates to personnel under their supervision
Your skills and experience
To be successful in this role, you’ll have:
- Familiarity and senior level ability with OH&S and safe work practices
- Experience in a full warehousing operation, incl experience using scanners and other logistics technologies
- Proven people management capabilities coupled with substantial supervisory experience and superior communication skills.
- Experience with manufacturing warehouse stocktake processes
- Waste, recycling and/or packaging industry background
- Experience in a large business high volume fleet & distribution environment
