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Recruitment Specialist at Geary's Bakeries
Despatch Supervisor - Goods Receipting
* 12 hour shifts, 4 On 4 Off
Choose Day Shift OR Night Shift:
* 6am - 6pm OR 6pm - 6am
The role
To lead, manage and develop your team to work safely, effectively and efficiently to service our customer with the best possible product. To follow and develop processes to ensure our customers receive the correct product on time and in full. To drive a culture of continuous improvement; empowering your team to improve performance, increase and maintain quality, reduce waste and deliver your department's KPIs.
To communicate effectively to both your team and your stakeholders, including Hygiene, Technical, Engineering, Stores, Production, Finishing, and Drivers.
The main responsibilities include:
Technical
* Checking all inbound stock to ensure it meets the correct specifications e.g., dates and labelling
* Rotating stock to ensure stock is available for the outbound team
* Labelling stocks with correct information
* Visually checking products are produced to specification when receipting stock.
* Ensuring GMP standards are met, and the warehouse is always audit ready.
* Taking an active role throughout audits and high-profile visits.
* Communicating with your shift manager, production, and finishing.
* Fit for purpose processes that are reviewed regularly and updated as required.
* Keeping the training matrix up to date and audit ready.
* Liaising with agency suppliers and providing feedback on performance
* Leading and developing your team of Inbound Warehouse Operatives
* Ensuring all communication is delivered accurately and timely
* HR/People tasks such as completing return to works and 121’s.
* Ensuring all paperwork is completed on time in full.
* Recording all information throughout the working day
* Using software to transfer stock between sites
* Responsible for ensuring product is unloaded in a timely fashion, and dates checked to ensure stock is labelled correctly.
* Responsible for the despatch warehouse, ensuring the area is clean and free from any H&S risks.
* Labels generated with correct information to ensure accurate stock rotation
About Us
At Geary’s, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906.
We are ‘born and bread’ in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from two, soon to be three, sites on a 24/7 operation. We’re made up of over 700 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.
We provide full training and support, and the chance to learn new skills from some of the best master bakers in the country. We invest in those who are committed to our craft and offer great opportunities to develop into supervisory and management roles. Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, a Cycle to Work scheme.
Plus, if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to £500!
About You:
At Geary’s, we look for people who show up every day to do their best. We’re a passionate, friendly team and look for the same qualities in our new recruits. We firmly believe your attitude and approach is just as important (if not, more so) than the skills and experience on your CV.
What we’re looking for:
* Experience in a similar environment (Goods In/Stores/Warehousing)
* Understanding of WMS systems
* Previous experience of managing a team.
* Ability to deliver under pressure and maintain a positive attitude
* Enthusiasm and tenacity to work and achieve goals
* Good organisational skills, ability to plan own time and prioritise tasks (and that of your team)
* Ability to work to high standards, driving continuous improvement
* Ability to take initiative and cooperate with decision-making processes
All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at the point of interview, and for the tenure of the employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.
If you have not heard from us within seven days, unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion, but we wish you every success in your search for a new position.
Seniority level
* Associate
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Supply Chain and Distribution
* Food and Beverage Services and Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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