Travis Perkins plc
Assistant Warehouse Manager
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Warehouse Supervisor
A busy and fast-paced business with great benefits, opportunities for career progression, and a friendly, hard-working team. Join BSS as a Warehouse Supervisor and play a key role in keeping our warehouse and delivery operation running safely, efficiently, and to the high standards our customers expect.
The Role
As Warehouse Supervisor, you'll play a key role in the day-to-day running of our busy Glasgow warehouse, supporting the Warehouse Manager in maintaining a safe, efficient, and well-organised operation.
You'll be responsible for supervising and supporting the warehouse team while also taking an active role in order control and the coordination of goods moving through the branch. You'll work closely with the Warehouse Manager, Sales Team, and Drivers to ensure customer orders are picked, checked, loaded, and dispatched accurately and on time.
This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced environment, where priorities can change throughout the day. You'll need to be organised, proactive, and comfortable making decisions and resolving issues as they arise.
The Warehouse Manager will retain overall responsibility for warehouse, transport, and health and safety operations, with the Warehouse Supervisor providing day-to-day leadership and support to the warehouse team and helping to ensure agreed processes and standards are consistently followed.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Warehouse Manager with the day-to-day running of the warehouse and provide direction, support, and guidance to the warehouse team.
- Allocate and prioritise workloads to ensure customer orders are picked, checked, and prepared for dispatch accurately and on time.
- Take responsibility for day-to-day order control, monitoring outstanding and priority orders, and ensuring issues are identified and resolved quickly.
- Work closely with the Sales Team to clarify order requirements and ensure customer expectations are met.
- Liaise with drivers and the delivery team to ensure vehicles are loaded correctly and dispatched on schedule.
- Oversee the receipt, checking, and storage of incoming goods and support effective stock control.
- Investigate and resolve issues relating to missing, damaged, or incorrect products and escalate significant issues to the Warehouse Manager.
- Maintain high standards of warehouse organisation, housekeeping, and stock accuracy.
- Support the training and development of warehouse colleagues and promote a positive culture of teamwork, accountability, and customer service.
- Lead by example and support the Warehouse Manager in maintaining the branch's high health and safety standards, ensuring safe working practices are followed, and hazards, near misses, and incidents are reported promptly.
- Identify opportunities to improve warehouse processes, order accuracy, and delivery efficiency.
- Maintain accurate records and ensure relevant systems are kept up to date.
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What We're Looking For
We're looking for an organised, practical, and motivated individual who enjoys working in a busy operational environment and has the confidence to lead and support a team.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Previous experience in a warehouse, distribution, logistics, or transport environment.
- Previous experience supervising or leading a warehouse team, or demonstrable experience of taking responsibility for the day-to-day activities of a warehouse operation.
- Experience with order control, order processing, or warehouse coordination.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships with warehouse colleagues, drivers, sales teams, and customers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the confidence to make practical decisions when issues arise.
- A good understanding of warehouse processes, goods-in, and stock control.
- A strong understanding of health and safety requirements and a commitment to maintaining high standards.
- Good attention to detail, particularly when dealing with customer orders and stock.
- The ability to remain calm and effective when priorities change.
- Good general IT skills and the ability to learn new systems quickly.
Experience within builders' merchants, plumbing and heating, industrial distribution, wholesale, or a similar environment would be advantageous. Experience with ERP, warehouse management, or order control systems would also be beneficial, although full training will be provided on BSS systems and processes.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will be someone who is comfortable working in a hands-on warehouse environment while also taking responsibility for coordinating people and priorities.
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You'll be someone who can build positive relationships with your team, communicate effectively across the wider branch, and maintain high standards even when the operation is busy.
You'll have a customer-first mindset and understand that an efficient warehouse operation is essential to delivering the service our customers expect.
Most importantly, you'll be someone who takes pride in their work, leads by example, and understands that safety, accuracy, and teamwork are essential to a successful operation.
About Us
BSS Industrial is one of the UK's leading distributors of heating, pipeline, process, and mechanical services equipment, supplying customers across the Building Services and Industrial sectors.
Established over 110 years ago, BSS became part of the Travis Perkins Group in 2010. Today, we have more than 60 BSS branches across the UK, supported by a National Distribution Centre at Lutterworth and a National Tube Distribution Centre in Coventry.
We have a wealth of experience across our business, from technical support and customer care to product engineering and design, alongside our market-leading own brand, BOSS.
At BSS, our people are at the heart of what we do. We work hard, support each other, and take pride in delivering an excellent service to our customers. As part of the wider Travis Perkins Group, there are also plenty of opportunities to develop your skills and progress your career within a large and growing organisation.
What We Offer
In return for your hard work and commitment, you'll have the opportunity to develop your career within a supportive team and a well-established business.
You'll also have access to a range of benefits, which may include:
- Competitive salary.
- Annual colleague bonus.
- Contributory pension.
- Life assurance.
- Sharesave scheme.
- Colleague discounts across the Travis Perkins Group, including Toolstation.
- Access to a wide range of online discounts covering everything from travel and airport parking to restaurants, cinemas, and days out.
- Opportunities for career development and progression across the wider Travis Perkins Group.
We're driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best, and it's our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome, and confident to be their authentic selves.
You be you, it makes us, us.
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