William Jackson Food Group
Despatch Section Leader (Fresh)
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About The Role
This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly organised Despatch Section Leader with strong communication and problem-solving skills to join the Night Warehouse Team. The Despatch Section Leader will be responsible for:
- Leading the daily operations within their team to ensure accurate and timely picking processes of all orders with maximum efficiency.
- Providing coaching assistance to team members.
- Understanding and confirming full compliance to all Safety and Technical standards.
- Creating a positive working environment with the team and driving excellent levels of accuracy and quality.
What You Will Do
- Partnering to ensure all picking deadlines and priority cut-off times are met.
- Living our passion for Quality and Product presentation aligned with our High-End customers’ expectations.
- Reviewing daily pick errors with pickers.
- Ensuring all routes are picked to meet deadlines while maintaining first-in-first out concept.
- Identifying special instructions on pick tickets to comply with Chef Support and BDM’s request.
- Conducting timely research to locate product to prevent backorders.
- Helping to attract and retain qualified and motivated workforce, while fostering new ideas for improvements.
- Continuously develop direct reports by coaching them for excellence. Document progress and ensure colleagues are cross trained to provide adequate coverage in key processes.
- Assisting with the evaluation of employee performance, handle disciplinary issues and maintaining an environment of respect and accountability to promote a cooperative and harmonious working culture.
- Tracking and maintaining productivity standards and assessing colleagues, supplies, and equipment needs.
- Maintaining “Tour Ready” clean and safe work area and securing building/operations at end of shift.
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What You Will Need
- Be proficient with MS Office (i.e. Word, Excel) and Wellocks operational system.
- Be able to multi-task and perform excellent communication, supervisory and customer service skills.
- Must be able to identify problems and resolve in a timely manner; possess a sense of urgency and ability to prioritise tasks and resources appropriately.
- Promote an environment conducive to maximise employee morale, productivity, and effectiveness.
Full training and PPE will be provided.
This role is commutable from Nelson, Colne, Barnoldswick, Earby, Burnley and Accrington with good access to the M65.
Benefits
- Fancy volunteering? We will give you one day off a year to take part in volunteering.
- Generous discounts on our products.
- Cycle to Work Scheme that offers discounted bikes and cycling equipment.
- Donate through your pay to a charity of your choice. The money is simply deducted through your pay before tax, so for every pound you donate, the 20p that usually goes to tax will go to the charity instead!
- We also have a range of employee assistance services which can be tailored to give you support on various matters such as financial, health and wellbeing advice.
- We treat our teams to a free meal every few months, from our visiting fish & chip van, to freshly made bacon baps from our in-house chefs.
About Us
Wellocks, is one of the leading UK food distributors in the hospitality industry. We provide fruit, vegetables, dairy, eggs, poultry, meat, store cupboard essentials and everything else chefs will need in their restaurant kitchen. Thanks to our highly skilled team, we also offer pre-prepared veg and freshly-made pasta which is a key part of our service.
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From our humble beginnings in 1961 supplying potatoes to local pubs and restaurants, 60 years later we now supply over 1,200 restaurant kitchens across the country with amazing ingredients.
We’re proud to be part of the William Jackson Food Group, a dedicated family-owned food business which started in 1851. Our sister businesses are Abel & Cole, Jacksons Bakery and Belazu. Family values and the commitment which comes with such a long-standing business are rooted in our culture here at Wellocks.
Thanks for reading our job advert. We do our very best to bring to life what it's like working as part of our team. Diverse teams really are the best teams. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. All colleagues are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying - a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.
We also know that sometimes some candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they think they can tick every box. If you are really excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren't sure if you are 100% there yet... go on... why not give it a whirl? Good luck!
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