Why Greencore? 

We’re a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day.

We’re a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK’s food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Tamworth is a large picking depot and one of the busiest and most complex in the area managing 5 major contracts and making over 2000 deliveries per day.

What you'll be doing

Shift: 5 from 7 - 14:00 - 22:00

Due to an internal promotion we have a Warehouse Supervisor vacancy. As a supervisor your key priority will be to ensure consistent application of the department standards and processes in order to deliver the inbound, picking and dispatch schedule safely, legally and meeting operational KPIs and costs.

Your role will include:

• Providing leadership and direction to ensure that colleagues receive necessary training, are supported in their roles and are confident to ask for advice or guidance

• Investigating and communicating issues affecting the safe and legal achievement of the budgeted operational plan and where required prevent unsafe behaviours or use of unsafe equipment

• Conducting operational inductions and training as required and ensure the records are signed off accurately for filing and entry to the onsite training matrix

• Actively participating in the risk assessment, accident investigation, operational inspections and behavioural monitoring processes to ensure a safe workplace

• Communicating opportunities for improvements where trends and deficiencies are evident and affect the quality of service, safety, food hygiene or profit of the operation

What we’re looking for 

We’re not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Responsive to the fast paced world of food distribution with experience gained within comparable distribution or logistics environments
• Have considerable people management/supervisory experience of leading diverse teams and contributing to operational business success
• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills
• Computer literate with the ability to utilise MS Office Suite for general recording and reporting
• Experienced in promoting cost efficiency
• Familiar with pick operating systems, voice picking is desirable

If this sounds like you join us, grow with Greencore and be a part of driving our future success.

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.