Job Description

Job title:

Warehouse Supervisor (Nights)

Department:

Operations

Responsible to:

Warehouse Manager

Salary & Benefits:

Competitive salary dependant on experience Monthly performance related bonus 25 days holiday plus public holidays Option to purchase additional annual leave (up to 3 days) Cash health plan (money back for dentist, opticians, physio etc.) Life assurance (4 x salary) Staff discount on ALL products Pension (3% employer and 5% employee)

Based:

Unit 7a, Odhams Trading Estate, St Albans Road, Watford, WD24 7RY

Hours of work:

40 hours per week (18:00 to 03:00) with a 60 minutes break.

About Vegetarian Express:

Vegetarian Express specialise in delivering plant-based ingredients, ideas and inspiration to chefs across the UK for eating out of home. With the astronomical rise in popularity of plant-based, vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets, Vegetarian Express are uniquely placed in Foodservice to meet with this demand, and as such are rapidly growing and expanding.

Nationally we supply more than 4,000 skilled chefs from customers such as

Compass, Baxterstorey and CH&Co

, as well as a ton of Independent operators and events such as

The Chelsea Flower Show

,

Wimbledon

and

Wembley Stadium

to name just a few.

Vegetarian Express work with customers to create plant-based menus that are enticing, better for consumers health, the planet and commercially for businesses.

Vegetarian Express are proud to be a certified B Corporation. This means they are part of a growing number of progressive businesses around the world that truly believe in the power of business to do good things and, more importantly, are doing something about it.

Main purpose of role:

To manage the warehouse night team effectively to ensure that all goods are picked packed and loaded for dispatch efficiently in accordance with operational compliance to deliver a world class service for our customers.

To ensure that Health and Safety requirements are strictly adhered to, training and development needs for the team are incorporated into your daily objectives. Support with recruitment needs alongside the Warehouse Manager.

Key Job Responsibilities:

To ensure that the team picking and packing accuracy is maintained ensuring that all customer expectations are met and any necessary paperwork is maintained and accurate. To direct the team to follow the relevant pick sheets through WMS handheld technology in order to complete pick accuracy. To ensure the team follow all correct procedures, and ensuring that safe working practices, timekeeping and food safety standards are followed. To ensure and maintain the team correctly pick Chilled frozen and ambient products for customer orders, they are correctly packed and dispatched to the customers on the correct date, and that the relevant paperwork is completed. To ensure that all areas of the warehouse, fridges and freezers clean and tidy and meet the necessary food safety standards, highlighting any stock related issues that may affect product integrity. System generated EPOD and routing information is sent to GEOPAL once the pick and invoicing has been completed. To communicate with the Depot General Manager and stock controllers if there are issues and problems as soon as possible, to help make the resolution of issues easier. Liaise with our day shift team ensuring the foundations are set for the night shift team to complete the pick fully. To carry out stock counts for the stock controllers and other counts as required on an ad-hoc basis. To suggest improvements to the Company's purchasing, logistics and warehousing systems as appropriate and to implement agreed changes in systems. Health and safety responsibility for the warehouse during the night shift maintaining a safe working environment for all colleagues. Working directly with the night shunter to enable safe loading of vehicles and maintain temperature controls throughout the shift. Work with the Depot General Manager to ensure the team have the correct training and development in place and up to date qualifications. Be at hand for the team both answering enquires and providing support. Motivate and educate the team to achieve KPI's Line Management responsibilities for the team including conducting performance reviews, performance management, recruitment, managing holidays & absences, provide regular coaching, feedback, training, 1 to 1 s. To undertake any other duties as appropriate within competence as required by line manager setting a one team approach and collaborative working relationship

Skills and Experience Required:

Normal distribution warehouse environment, so a reasonable degree of physical fitness required. Sage (desirable) Warehouse management systems Microsoft applications Minimum 5 years in a Warehouse Team Leader position Team Leader management experience of 20+ team members Previous experience of following performance management and absence management procedures. HR management processes. Good Timekeeping Team player 'one team' approach. Embraces diversity and changes
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

Casual dress Company pension Cycle to work scheme Employee discount Free parking Life insurance On-site parking Sick pay
Work Location: In person