Role Overview
The Warehouse Team Lead is responsible for supporting the day-to-day operations of a warehouse team, ensuring efficient and accurate handling of goods across inbound and outbound processes.
This role involves supervising a small team, coordinating with management, and maintaining high standards of performance, safety, and service. The role blends hands-on operational duties with leadership and administrative responsibilities to support overall warehouse effectiveness.
About The Role
Core Responsibilities
Lead and supervise a warehouse team on a designated shift, including core staff and temporary workers.
- Coordinate the unloading and loading of delivery vehicles, ensuring timely and accurate stock movements.
- Maintain up-to-date and accurate stock records using handheld scanning devices, WMS tools, and Microsoft Excel.
- Always maintain the warehouse to acceptable standards of housekeeping and ensure waste controls are in place and lead by example to a high level of Health & Safety awareness/compliance and action any areas of concern.
- Communicate effectively between warehouse staff and depot/shift management
- Conduct regular briefings with the team to align on daily priorities and provide ongoing coaching and support.
- Support the allocation of tasks and resources to ensure operational demands are met.
- Complete daily administrative and reporting tasks to required standards and timelines.
- Ensure all warehouse areas comply with Health & Safety regulations through checks, audits, and corrective actions.
- Assist in identifying and implementing improvements in processes and workflows to enhance efficiency.
- Provide cover and assume responsibilities of the Warehouse Shift Manager when required, ensuring continuity of operations and effective team oversight.
Skills and Experience
Experience in a supervisory or lead role within a warehouse or distribution environment.
- Strong leadership and people management skills, with the ability to motivate and support team members.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Competence in using WMS systems, handheld scanners, and Microsoft Excel.
- High attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy and service.
- Understanding of Health & Safety standards in warehouse operations.
Working Hours
This is a full-time role working 40 hours per week, 5 out of 7 days, working rotating shifts of 6am till 2 pm and 2pm till 10pm.
Work Location
{Swindon}
This position may suit individuals with previous skills or experience gained from the following roles: Warehouse Team Leader, Warehouse Supervisor, or Warehouse Section Leader.
Benefits
Exclusive Employee Discounts: Enjoy unbeatable savings on all Oak Furnitureland products after completing your probation period.
Generous Holiday Allowance: Benefit from 20 days of holiday each year (excluding Bank Holidays), giving you ample time to relax and recharge.
Celebrate Your Special Day: Take an extra day off to celebrate your birthday or another special occasion important to you!
My Rewards Programme: Unlock incredible savings and enjoy exclusive discounts on essentials and luxuries, from dining out and grocery shopping to entertainment, holidays, and gym memberships.
Competitive Pension Scheme: Secure your future with a 4% employee contribution, matched by the company.
Comprehensive Life Assurance: Receive free coverage worth at least twice your annual salary, ensuring peace of mind up to age 65.
Continued Development: Enhance your skills and support your future career advancement with ongoing training and growth opportunities within the company.
Supportive Employee Assistance Programme: Access professional counselling services via phone or in person whenever needed.
Convenient Free On-site Parking: Enjoy the convenience and ease of free parking at our location.
Company Information
Oak Furnitureland launched in 2006. Our brand was built on ensuring our customers could access high-quality hardwood furniture at affordable prices, and we were predominantly known for our range of well-crafted cabinetry.
Fast-forward to today, and you’ll discover our commitment to using quality materials and creating furniture built to last hasn’t changed. We still offer great value for money, too, but what you’ll discover now is an evolution that’s seen us expand our categories and styles of furniture so that we can offer something for every home.
Not only do we offer fantastic pieces of furniture for the home, but we are also a great place to work. It is one where colleagues are valued, feel connected to the business, and are provided with an environment where they can flourish, contribute, and develop their careers.
To support us, we are guided by our company's purpose of ‘helping people make their house a real home’, which is underpinned by our values:
We are adaptable
We are experts
We are authentic
We are one team
We put our customers first.
Equal Opportunities Employer
Our mission is to build an open and inclusive work environment where all colleagues have equal opportunity and access to development, progression and growth. We strive to recruit and retain diverse talent representative of our customer demographic.
We have an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and are driven by the same purpose and values. As we endeavour to create a workplace that reflects our diverse customer base and the communities in which we live and work, we strongly encourage applications from individuals belonging to minority and underrepresented groups. We are committed to fairness in the way we hire new colleagues, and if you require any additional support to help you through the process, we’re happy to make the necessary adjustments for anyone who needs them.
Please know that any offer is subject to references and a DBS check.
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