If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.
To lead a warehouse services team in order to maximise the control of: Safety, Quality, and Efficiency, through people and effective communication, to ensure the efficient movement of raw materials and finished goods within production areas.
Maximise Safety
- Actively contribute to safety reviews.
- Raise near miss and incident reports and review required actions
- Comply with RMB safety policies and procedures.
Maximise Quality / Service
- Adopt a “right first time” approach to working practices
- Ensure that housekeeping and hygiene standards are maintained at a high level.
Maximise Efficiency
- Optimise efficiency of staff , trucks and live rack by ensuring stock moving in and out of the warehouse and Blowmould areas
Minimise Costs
- Encourage/contribute to cost saving initiatives.
Maximise People Contribution
- Adopt a High Profile on Shop Floor
- Ensure that all HR procedures such as RTW are carried out as required.
- Provide and encourage an atmosphere of involvement.
- Ensure that Personal Development Reviews are carried out as required and in an effective manner
- Encourage the future development of warehouse staff
Maximise Communication
- Communicate relevant information to team members via briefing and training sessions on a regular basis.
- Provide feedback from customer visits/audits.
Safety
- Ensure safety is first and foremost in every activity.
- Work and promote compliance to procedure.
- Comply with RMB safety policies and procedures.
- Discipline and eliminate any and all unsafe practices.
- Control and regulate the use of Banksmen and all work based transport-related procedures.
- Implement and monitor any and all procedural changes.
Quality and Service
- Work and promote compliance to procedure.
- Actively contribute to quality checks and procedural review.
- Ensure that routine quality and safety inspections are correctly carried out.
- Builds effective relationships with people at all levels, while motivating and energising others.
Leadership
- Provides vision and direction, inspires others to follow. Takes responsibility for involving,
Commitment to self-development
- Is not limited by previous experience and engages actively in improvement activities.
Leading Change
- Plans for and successfully introduces change leading to improvements.
Drive and self-motivation
- Achieves success with others, consistently operates as an example for others.
Meeting customer needs
- Understands the importance of identifying and meeting the needs of external and internal customers.
Building customer focus
- Works consistently to achieve customer focus and improve service standards within the team.
Performance focus
- Uses resources effectively, with a clear focus on critical tasks and the achievement of objectives.
Decision-making
- Analyses situations, makes sound judgements and takes appropriate decisions.
Company/Department Strategy and Plans
- Understands his/her departmental plans, objectives and values in detail, how they fit with those of other departments and the inter-dependencies.
- Guides and monitors the team’s performance taking actions and decisions to ensure work is constantly aligned to the departmental goals.
- Takes reasonable risks to overcome problems considering the impact of actions on own and other parts of the business.
- Communicates the plans, objectives and values to team members and ensures each person understands how they can contribute to the achievement of them.
Commercial Awareness
- Has an understanding of what drives cost within own area, an appreciation of the factors which influence profit, and use that understanding to achieve cost and service KPI’s.
- Strives to reduce costs within own area wherever possible without comprising on quality or service.
- Monitors performance KPI’s and communicates them to team members to secure involvement for continuous improvements and cost reduction.
Policies, Procedures and Standards
- Knows when and to whom to refer to for specialist advice.
Customer Service
- Works with customers on a day to day basis to improve the service provided to them.
- Has a good understanding of customer requirements and seeks to meet or exceed them.
- Monitors the standards of service through KPI’s communicating results to team members on a regular basis.
- Takes personal responsibility for ensuring service related problems for his/her area are corrected referring them to the appropriate person if action outside his/her own remit is required.
Health, Safety and Environment
- Develops a basic understanding of the Robert McBride Ltd. Health, Safety and Environmental Policies. Completes handbook within 12 months.
- Ensures procedures and safety and environmental performance standards are adhered to and maintained.
- Report all major instances of quality and service failure.
- Drive and commitment to hygienic working practices audits and checks.
- Implement and monitor any and all procedural changes.
Efficiency
- Ensure that the workload in each area is kept constant and within the correct boundaries to promote and ensure the greatest efficiency.
- Constantly monitor work areas to ensure continuous effective working.
Cost
- Promote and manage cost saving initiatives.
People Contribution
- Assume a very visible and approachable shop floor position.
- Promote and encourage an atmosphere of involvement, ownership, transparency and personnel responsibility through regular briefings
- Manage and control holidays and absence to ensure minimal impact.
- Build a “next in command” structure through training and involvement.
- Promote very clear lines of procedure and responsibilities.
Communication
- Communicate and engage all team members via briefings
- Conduct all communication openly and with transparency and ensure all team members are updated.
- Monitors Filling and Blowmould plans to ensure objectives are met
- Monitor stock aging and usage to maintain flow of stock through Live Rack.
- Liaise with internal and external customers to maintain customer service.
- Return unused components to stock ensuring accuracy of records
- Manage Live Rack and Dan Palletisers/wrappers
- Liaise with Logistex to manage any operational issues with Live Rack
- Effectively allocates the stock to production.
- Manages the time schedules of the internal stock movements from storage
- Is able to manage resources to execute the daily/weekly tasks.
- Can effectively conduct audits and reconcile any discrepancies.
Communication
- Communicates at all levels clearly, listens and involves others in direction and goal setting.
Team Building
- Ensures that any employee failing to comply with relevant standards is dealt with in accordance with the RMB General Safety Notice procedure Ch3: 30-31 as appropriate.
- Ensures the effective communication of safety and environmental related matters between departments, across the shift system and within the department.
- Sets a personal example.
- Ensures that only trained and authorised personnel are permitted to undertake any task/operation. With the exception of a trainee under supervision.
- Ensure adequate licences are held for FLT’s and manage refresher training in line with company policy.
Quality
- Treats quality as a key part of their work on a daily basis and supports initiatives or changes in process as they arise.
- Has a strong understanding of the tasks required to comply with local quality instructions and ensures they are adhered to rigidly.
- Takes personal responsibility for corrective actions / non-conformances in their area. Seeks assistance and raises awareness if they perceive there are potential compliance issues in their area.
- Contributes to diagnostic and continuous improvement exercises, by sharing information or undertaking work as part of improvement teams.
- Communicates improvements, and guides, monitors team members in their completion of quality based tasks.
Systems
- Has a through knowledge of the SAP transactions and processes and Logistex software
- Able to interrogate and investigate inventory accuracy and discrepancies.
Continuous Improvement
- Knowledge of suitable processes and skills application.
- Participates in continuous improvement activities.
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