Supply Chain Supervisor

Are you an experienced Supply Chain Supervisor with excellent communication and organisational skills? Do you have excellent people skills and experienced with managing a team?

Major Recruitment are working in partnership with Polytec, a leading automotive manufacturer, to recruit a Supply Chain Supervisor to play a key role in the Supply Chain department at their site based in Telford.

As a Supply Chain Supervisor, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of a fast-moving manufacturing environment whilst achieving agreed budgetary and service levels to customers as well as meeting all legal requirements. Responsible for organising the safe and efficient receipt, storage and dispatch of warehouse materials, goods, and products to feed business operations and customer demand. Responsible for the day-to-day management of people within the warehouse function, to ensure company's targets and objectives are met to meet customer requirements, ensuring that staff comply with health, safety and standard operating procedures. Responsible for housekeeping standards and continuous improvement within the warehouse.

Key Responsibilities of a Supply Chain Supervisor:

• Plan, co-ordinate and monitor the receipt, storage and dispatch of goods.
• Ensure orders are processed efficiently and that the delivery of materials to production lines is in accordance with production schedules and to quality standards and the delivery of materials meets customers timescales/requirements.
• Organise, facilitate and manage stock takes at regular intervals.
• Ensure that all relevant procedures and processes are followed and adhered to in line with the Company's procedures and requirements.
• Operate visual delivery tracking systems in order that commodity status can be seen at a glance.
• Ensure that internal delivery processes are adhered to, to support dispatch time windows.
• Lead follow up and resolve Customer concerns.
• Identify errors and eliminate root cause using robust countermeasures and sustain the corrective actions to eliminate repeat issues.
• Deliver efficiencies to support year on year operational budget reduction.
• Manage the implementation of engineering changes, production trials, model change and pilot build ensuring robust product life cycles.
• Implement warehouse and management systems and working practices in line with best practice and continuous improvement.
• Maintain the management of supplier return packaging.
• Record and communicate all shortage issues to the relevant personnel.
• Provide a safe working environment, adhering to Health, Safety and Environmental procedures and ensuring they are understood and practiced by the team at all times.

Skills required to be a successful Supply Chain Supervisor:

• Achievement of or working towards Supervisory qualification e.g. NEBS/ILM
• Production/Manufacturing experience - automotive desirable
• Experience of operating in a supervisory capacity within a fast paced, highly pressurised warehouse and distribution environment
• Strong people and performance management skills
• Continuous improvement and problem-solving techniques
• Excellent IT Skills
• Excellent SAP knowledge experience of D-Soft advantageous
• Ability to sustain and develop team working and team based problem solving
• Excellent Communication Skills and ability to build strong working relationships
• Able to work on initiative
• Ability to lead and motivate a team of people to succeed by utilising appropriate interpersonal styles including leading by example, setting objectives and defining responsibilities to give a clear sense of direction

What's in it for you?

• A highly competitive salary
• Employee Assistance Programme which can offer independent confidential advice on a number of areas including:
• Financial Wellbeing
• Mental Wellbeing
• Physical Wellbeing

• Life Assurance Cover
• Salary Exchange savings linked to colleague pension scheme contributions
• Pension
• Buy and Sell Annual Leave
• Corporate Discount Portal
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• 25 Days Holidays plus 8 bank holidays
• Free Car Parking

Major Recruitment are an employment agency working on behalf of our client. Should you be seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment, or contract you will find our staff professional and courteous and our interview process straight forward.

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