Night Warehouse Section Leader

2 months ago


Nelson, United Kingdom William Jackson Food Group Full time

Night Warehouse Section Leader - Lomeshaye Industrial Estate, Nelson - Competitive Salary

About the role

You will be responsible for leading the daily operations within your team to ensure accurate and timely picking processes of all orders with maximum efficiency, as well as providing coaching assistance to team members.

You will also be responsible for understanding and confirming full compliance to all Safety and Technical standards, along with creating a positive working environment within the team and driving excellent levels of accuracy and quality.  

Shift Pattern:

This is a night shift role with a start time of 7pm, with a finish time dependant on the last van being picked and loaded, working 5 out of 6 nights Sunday to Friday. 

What you will do:

Health and Safety / Food Safety:

  • Ensure that hygiene standards are at all times performed to BRC accreditation and to our own high GMP standards.
  • Adhere to SOP and safety training and ensure that your team are fully SOP trained.
  • Uphold company and statutory Health & Safety, security and emergency procedures.

Night Warehouse Operation:

  • Ensure all picking deadlines and priority cut-off times are met.
  • Reviewing daily picking errors with members of your team.
  • Ensuring all routes are picked to meet deadlines whilst maintaining first-in-first out concept.
  • Conduct timely research to locate products to prevent backorders.
  • Tracking and maintaining productivity standards and assessing colleagues, supplies and equipment needs.
  • Maintaining “Tour Ready” clean and safe work areas and securing building / operations at the end of shift.

People Responsibility:

  • Attract and retain a qualified and motivated workforce, whilst fostering new ideas and improvements.
  • Continuously develop direct reports by coaching them and documenting their progress.
  • Ensure colleagues are cross-trained to provide adequate coverage in key processes.

What you will need:

  • Experience operating in a fast-paced warehousing environment.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office packages.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics 365, or similar operating systems, is desirable.
  • Be able to multi-task and perform excellent communication, supervisory and customer service skills.
  • Able to identify problems and resolve in a timely manner; possess a sense of urgency and ability to prioritise tasks and resources appropriately.
  • Promote an environment conducive to maximise employee morale, productivity and effectiveness.

Let us tell you some more benefits you would receive:

  • Fancy volunteering? We will give you one day off a year to take part in volunteering.
  • Generous discounts on our products
  • Cycle to Work Scheme that offers discounted bikes and cycling equipment.
  • Donate through your pay to a charity of your choice. The money is simply deducted through your pay before tax, so for every pound you donate, the 20p that usually goes to tax will go to the charity instead
  • We also have a range of employee assistance services which can be tailored to give you support on various matters such as financial, health and wellbeing advice.
  • We treat our teams to a free meal every few months, from our visiting fish & chip van, to freshly made bacon baps from our in-house chefs

About us

Wellocks, is one of the leading UK food distributors in the hospitality industry. We provide fruit, vegetables, dairy, eggs, poultry, meat, store cupboard essentials and everything else chefs will need in their restaurant kitchen. Thanks to our highly skilled team, we also offer pre-prepared veg and freshly-made pasta which is a key part of our service.

From our humble beginnings in 1961 supplying potatoes to local pubs and restaurants, 60 years later we now supply over 1,200 restaurant kitchens across the country with amazing ingredients.

We’re proud to be part of the William Jackson Food Group, a dedicated family-owned food business which started in 1851. Our sister businesses are Abel & Cole, Jacksons Bakery and Belazu. Family values and the commitment which comes with such a long-standing business are rooted in our culture here at Wellocks.

Thanks for reading our job advert. We do our very best to bring to life what it’s like working as part of our team. Diverse teams really are the best teams. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. All colleagues are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying - a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.
We also know that sometimes some candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they think they can tick every box. If you are really excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… go on… why not give it a whirl? Good luck



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