Logistics Supervisor

Salary: £30,895 per annum | Open-ended | Full-time | Closing date: 15th December 2025 Contract Type: Open-ended (Permanent) Hours: Full-time Location: Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus, Warrington, WA4 4AD Together, our scientists, technologists, engineers and business support team explore the unknown and turn what they find into work that changes the world around us. Whether it's sending probes into space or finding new ways to treat cancer, everyone here plays a vital role in making a positive difference to society. Come and discover how much you can achieve when you're surrounded by world-leading experts, encouraged to constantly learn and empowered to explore your curiosity. Our engineering and scientific departments require a range of goods-in and despatch logistics services, and we have an exciting opportunity for a Logistics Supervisor to proactively lead the team in delivering a flexible, customer-focused and efficient service in support of STFC's vision and mission. Reporting to the Deputy Facilities Manager, the post holder will be responsible for the management of the Logistics Operatives team, ensuring that daily and weekly logistics activities and duties are completed efficiently. Key accountabilities Supervision and line management of logistics staff, including HR matters, resource planning and staff development. Responsibility and oversight for day-to-day running of the logistics service, including front desk duties, all in-bound goods and their delivery across site. Supporting the despatch of goods, postal services, and site storage through care and custody provision. This includes the supervision of specialist services such as laboratory gas supply, servicing, receiving dangerous goods alongside the day-to-day manual handling activities. Provide deputising support for line manager and close interaction with the Shipping team to ensure effective communication and co-ordination. Management of the logistics fleet. Reviewing or creating logistics services-related risk assessments and safe systems of working to ensure the service is compliant with H&S regulation and STFC safety arrangements. Essential shortlisting criteria You will have supervisory or managerial experience in a logistics role, ideally within a science, engineering sector and a level of education equivalent to five GCSEs (including English and Maths, minimum level 5), or other equivalent qualifications/experience and along with the following desirable attributes: Clean current UK driving licence. An up-to-date counterbalance forklift certificate. Be physically fit and capable to perform all aspects of the role, including manual handling. Dangerous goods and handling. Proven logistics or warehouse experience. STFC values their employees by offering a benefits package designed to provide an excellent work/life balance including 30 days' annual leave, 10.5 public and privilege holidays, flexible working hours, exceptional average salary pension scheme, social and sporting activities and societies and a subsidised restaurant. We ask some of the biggest questions in the universe, to answer some of the biggest challenges in the world. What could you achieve with the world-leading facilities and experts of one of Europe's largest research organisations by your side? Join us and discover what's possible by submitting your CV and covering letter which outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified, along with your motivation for joining STFC and this role. As this job does not fulfil the UK Government minimum criterion for obtaining sponsored migrant worker status, we will be unable to apply for sponsorship for anyone not eligible to work in the UK. At interview, all shortlisted candidates are required to bring with them identification documents and original documents that prove they hold or can obtain the right to work in the UK. You can check your eligibility here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa/y To avoid disappointment, we recommend submitting your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early once a suitable number of applications has been received.UKRI - UK Research and Innovation UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.Supporting some of the world's most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.More information can be found at www.ukri.org . Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit benefits of working for UKRI . How we support EDI in the workforce At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit 'How we support EDI in the workforce'. Disability Confident Employer As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all applicants with a disability who opt into the disability confident scheme and meet the minimum criteria for the role. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.How to apply Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the 'experience' section of the application. UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion - a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment.The Science and Technology Facilities Council is a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation where curiosity-driven, blue-skies thinking meets practical, application-led science and engineering. Our goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people - and more broadly to the world. One of Europe's largest research organisations, we're trusted to support, enable and undertake cutting-edge projects in an amazing diversity of fields. Through world-class facilities and people, we're driving ground-breaking advances in science, engineering, computing and technology. Our research seeks to understand the Universe from the largest astronomical scales to the tiniest constituents of matter, yet creates impact on a very tangible, human scale. 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