Warehouse & Logistics Team Leader

**We are currently looking for a Warehouse & Logistics Team Leader**

**A little about us**:
With over a century of engineering expertise and innovation, KNDS UK is a renowned world leader in rapidly deployable military bridging systems and a key partner in the UK MoD’s Boxer armoured vehicle programme.

We are proud of our heritage and our reputation of providing the highest quality engineering solutions for over 100 years. As a trusted partner to military customers around the world, our employees are the very heart of our company. We have a skilled and experienced workforce dedicated to achieving excellence in all areas of the business from Engineering to Project Management, Business Support to Operations.

As our business evolves, we are looking to strengthen our workforce with talented and motivated individuals across a range of disciplines to work from our Northwest Engineering Centre of Excellence and currently have this opportunity available:
**About the role**:
The primary purpose of this role is to be responsible for receiving and organising vehicle components, kits, and supplies across all manufacturing areas, ensuring safety and efficiency at all times.

Key duties include, but are not limited to:

- Planning, organising, and conducting activities in an effective manner towards achieving common goals and objectives.
- Reporting deviations from the standard working processes and taking corrective actions.
- Take action to achieve KPIs.
- Responsible for supplying the production departments with materials / components by:

- Agreeing with logistics representatives about the escalation of logistics issues to find solutions.
- Organisation of internal production logistics.
- Provide shipping to our internal customer by:

- Organisation of production components in accordance with the instructions of the internal customer / department
- Organisation of production components delivery throughout the designated site locations.
- Ensuring optimisation of material flow in the production process by:

- Co-operation with the manufacturing departments to ensure correct material flow.
- Ensuring that safety policies are understood and respected within his area of responsibilities.
- Maintaining an organised tidy, safe and clean, yard, dispatch, receiving and warehouse areas.
- Ensuring resources are scheduled to meet the internal customer delivery plans.
- Realise inventory counts in relation to Inventory control measures.
- Propose new ways of working to the Warehouse Operations Manager and Supervisor that improve efficiency.
- Supporting the Warehouse customer focus - presentation of image and working standards to internal customers and external visitors.
- Engaging with Warehouse, Quality teams to ensure that all components are delivered to the required company expectations.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Current driving licence
- Previous experience in leading teams
- Current Forklift Truck licence
- Health and Safety at Work training
- First aider
- SAP - working experience of warehouse module.
- General computer skills (MS Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Previous experience in Warehouse Operations
- Basic knowledge of MRP2, interactions with other stakeholders
- Safety in a Logistical/ Manufacturing environment
- Component metrology and quality improvement tools is advantageous.

**Why you should join us**:
When you become part of the KNDS UK team, you will enjoy employee benefits such as:

- Competitive salary
- Attractive pension (4% employee contribution, 7% employer contribution)
- Half-day Friday
- Life assurance scheme
- Company sick pay scheme which increases with service
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Additional Holidays & other Long Service rewards
- Wellbeing initiatives, such as Free Fruit on Tuesday’s
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Free on-site car parking
- On-site electric vehicle charging points

We’re also very proud to be part of the Armed Forces Covenant since 2018, achieving their Silver Award in 2020 and Gold Award in 2024. We actively support and encourage service leavers, reservists and cadets to join our team, recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process.
- Recruiters please note that we have a list of approved recruitment agency partners in place and we will contact agencies directly should we require support. Any unsolicited CV’s received via an agency will be accepted with thanks but without fee._

Pay: From £35,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Referral programme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Stockport SK4 5DY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Warehouse: 2 years (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person