Warehouse Team Leader

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by the Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 24,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from more than 1,700 British farmers. The Müller brand is ranked at No.7 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands, and is also the 7th most chosen brand in the UK.
We are recruiting a Warehouse Team Leader
We are recruiting a Warehouse Team Leader within the Despatch Department at Muller Manchester to enable the team to deliver targets and continuously improve performance by coaching and developing our people.
Contract: Full Time / Perm
Shift Pattern: – 4 on 4 off Days and Nights (7am – 7pm / 7pm – 7am)
Location: Manchester
The ideal candidate will have experience within Despatch / Logistics or have a transport background. Training will be provided for this position.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to the following:

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Ensures own activities are aligned to overall business objectives.
• People management including delivery of performance review, development and coaching of team, dealing with employee relations issues.
• Collaboratively works with other teams to improve our business.
• Deep knowledge of Operational Excellence , coaching team on use of the principles and tools.

Muller Responsibilities:

• Creating and delivering development plans.
• Creating succession pathways both up through and across organisation .
• High level problem solving capability and facilitation skills.
• “go, look, see” issues by visiting the workstation when called upon .
• Coaching front line team members, enabling them to solve problems.
• Uses PDCA techniques to follow problems through to “100 year fix” in real time.
• Encourages others to seeks out improvement opportunities within the workplace and converts to own operational excellence projects .
• Owns and delivers operational excellence initiatives and is recognised for these.
• Looks and encourages others to find “waste” opportunities in everything that we do.

Learning & Development:

• Site & department induction.
• Operational Excellence Advanced.
• All Dairy Technical Competency Workshops.
• Train the Trainer (Inc coaching & facilitation).
• People Essentials.
• Developing Teams Using Pathfinder .
• Level 3 Fit for Leadership Apprenticeship Programme or equivalent Fit for Leadership modules.

Compensation & Benefits:
In return for your contributions to our success, Müller offers a competitive salary package.
We value our people and are proud to offer a wide range of benefits:

• Up to 10% yearly bonus
• Monthly Pay
• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme with Muller matching up to 4%
• Life Assurance at 4x your annual salary
• 33 days holiday per year
• Health care cash plan
• Access to 1000s of reward via the Muller Rewards platform

Contact Details: F.A.O. Hire To Retire Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Donnington Wood Business Park, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 7GJ