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Job Description

Warehouse Supervisor

Permanent / Full Time

Working hours - Monday to Thursday (8am-5pm) Friday (7am-3pm).

Reports to - Warehouse Manager

Salary - Starting salary commensurate with experience

Location - This role will be based at Rasharkin, Co. Antrim.

Established in 1987, Woodland NI Ltd has grown to become a leading manufacturer of complete kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture solutions. 

Due to continued growth Woodland are delighted to launch a new role of Warehouse Manager. You will be responsible for overseeing all warehousing and logistics operations including stock control.

About The Role

Job Purpose:

• Support the Warehouse Manager by acting as first point of contact for line employees and all line queries.

• Proactively organise and oversee the workflow of the Warehouse, ensuring maximum efficiency.

• Help support and motivate the team to ensure they are meeting their set goals and objectives.

DUTIES/ RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide a safe working environment, adhering to Health, Safety and Environmental procedures and ensuring they are understood and practiced by the team at all times.

• Operate a forklift and hold valid counterbalance licence.

• Input, retrieve and analyse data.

• Lead a small team of warehouse operatives

• Organise, facilitate and manage stock takes at regular intervals

• Plan, co-ordinate and monitor the receipt, storage and dispatch of goods.

• Organisational, analytical and problem solving with responsibility for driving Standard Work and ensuring quality processes are implemented.

• Organise workflow and people resources to meet specifications and deadlines

• Communicate effectively to management and employees.

• Liaise with other department managers to ensure production and despatch is on target.

• Report any employee absences or lateness to the Warehouse Manager

• Motivate and enhance performance through training, cross skilling and communication.

• Ensure all accidents and near misses within your area are investigated to identify root cause and implement countermeasures to prevent reoccurrence.

• Report all maintenance to management and continue to follow up until complete.

• Identify areas of improvement and provide recommendations to management to support the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives aimed at developing a lean culture, minimising cost, and maximising productivity to ensure quality and on time delivery.

• Ensure all members of the team adhere to Company Policies and Procedures.

• Deliver compliance and best practice in the key areas of people management, quality management and health & safety, ensuring all ISO standards are followed and maintained.

• Seeking to achieve right first-time quality, identifying root cause of production mistakes and feed back to other departments to prevent re-occurrence.

• Responsible for full security of department premises, including full key holder duties.

Skills Needed

About The Company

Founded by Brian McCloskey in 1987, Woodland has established itself as one of the leading manufacturers of kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture. Over the years, we have partnered with some of the UK's largest retailers to manufacture design-led bathroom furniture to appeal to their customer base. Our contracts division also design and manufacture kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture for large-scale residential, student accommodation and hotel projects. From design through to installation, we meticulously manage our projects to seamlessly work in tandem with our contractors schedule. - We have over 30 years experience in the kitchen, bedroom and bathroom industry.- 141,000 sq ft manufacturing facility- Considered one of the leading suppliers of both flat packed and rigid kitchen, bedroom and bathroom furniture- We look after every step of the journey, from design, manufacture to installation

Company Culture

Excitement and passion for our craft drives us to manufacture superior quality furniture.Creative design, workmanship and quality are the key ingredients to our philosophy at Woodland. We're always refining and improving our company, whether its new production techniques, design ideas - we never rest on our laurels.We’re not complacent or stagnant. We’re a progressive business, consistently striving to excel on performance year after year with the support of our people.As a family-run company, we have strong family values and care about the people we work with.Our values are about nurturing our employee’s unique skill sets and rewarding them for their hard work. Many of our employees have progressed through our personal development plan to advance their careers at Woodland.

Desired Criteria

• Experience of working within Epicor ERP

Required Criteria

• Proven work experience in a warehouse environment
• Knowledge of warehouse software packages and MS Office proficiency
• Ability to input, retrieve and analyse data
• Experience in workplace transport and road haulage transport.
• Counterbalance license - This will be a hands on role

Closing DateWednesday 10th July, 2024

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