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ROLE: Warehouse & Transport Manager - Airfreight
LOCATION: Heathrow
HOURS OF WORK: Monday to Friday - 8 am to 6 pm
PACKAGE: Negotiable dependent upon experience. In addition to very competitive base salary, you will receive 33 days annual leave including public and bank holidays, 4 x death in service, salary protection, eligibility to join healthcare scheme plus many other benefits
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- Minimim 3 years supervisory experience managing warehouse and transport operations within an airfreight environment
- Strong leadership and motivational skills
- Ability to work calmly, under pressure, in a challenging environment
- O Licence Holder
- Ability to prioritise workload and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to act in a professional consistent manner with internal employees and managers along with external suppliers and contractors
- Aviation Security training
ROLE
The Site Operations Manager will manage all elements of the warehousing and domestic transport operation within a busy Airfreight and distribution centre including the overall management of the site and its facilities ensuring that all logistics solutions are fully integrated and designed to be cost efficient and improve customer service.
This will include transport administration, planning and management of 3rd party carriers & Internal drivers , warehouse inbound and outbound planning and processing.
Efficient stock management and control of goods through the warehouse, along with managing effective staff and resource management.
Overall control of housekeeping and the maintenance of a safe working environment.
The above will be delivered through continuous improvement initiatives in line with a kaizen environment.
The role will also require a high level of professionalism that will include liaising with internal and external customers and ensuring that the operation meets high quality standards including the consistent attainment of standards accreditation and achieving customer KPIs and SLA requirements alongside defining and monitoring operational KPI measures in order to drive service excellence and strict cost controls.
