Sherwin-Williams
Warehouse Team Leader
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Job Description
The Warehouse Team Leader is responsible for coordinating daily warehouse activities to ensure efficient receiving, storage, order picking, packing, and dispatch operations. The role ensures team performance, supports a safe working environment, and maintains high standards of accuracy, productivity, and customer service.
Responsibilities
- The enforcement of safe systems of work and holding those below them in the management structure accountable for their health and safety performance.
- The provision of safe equipment, a safe working environment, and ensuring all employees/contractors are provided with and wear the appropriate personal protective equipment.
- Ensure employees are adequately informed, instructed, trained, and supervised to safely carry out work for which they are engaged.
- Ensure a safe working environment, striving for zero recordable injuries in compliance with internal policies and external legislation, through the delivery of key enabling activities (e.g. Near Misses, Safety Observations, timely completion of actions). Ensure that safety and environmental incidents are fully investigated and the appropriate countermeasures established.
- Manages the Warehouse employees involved in the shipping, receiving, inventory, distribution, and/or trafficking of materials.
- Ensures resources and personnel are available and allocated to meet operational demand.
- Monitors operational efficiency and accuracy.
- Completes appropriate paperwork and/or enters data regarding incoming materials, work-in-progress, outgoing orders, and other operations to ensure records and counts are accurate.
- Operating standards must be monitored and any necessary changes initiated.
- Team members are sufficiently empowered to take appropriate responsibility.
- Cover is provided in the absence of other Team Leaders.
- Recommendations to plant, equipment, and working practices are developed and effectively communicated to management.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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Qualifications
Formal Education
- Previous supervisory experience and/or qualifications
- Educated to Secondary or High School standard, passing the appropriate exams
Knowledge & Experience
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing, coaching, and negotiating skills.
- A proven track record in managing change within a diverse environment.
- An articulate communicator both written and verbal.
- Ability to effectively build and manage relationships.
- Has enthusiasm and patience to develop others.
- Values strong teamwork.
- Numerically astute with the ability to analyze data and drive the appropriate action.
- A strong customer focus.
- Proficient at producing and presenting proposals and able to demonstrate objective analytical skills and business acumen.
- Hands-on approach and attitude.
- Continuous improvement focus.
- Self-motivated.
Technical/Skill Requirements
- Advanced PC skills essential
- Financial and commercial awareness.
- Forklift Truck - mandatory
About Us
At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings, and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent, and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth, and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:
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- with rewards, benefits, and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being
Career
- with opportunities to learn, develop new skills, and grow your contribution
Connection
- with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities
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Eligibility to Work
You will need to provide proof of the right to work. It is a condition of any offer of employment we make to you that you have the permission to work in the country for the role for which you are applying for.
Equal Opportunity Employer
An equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, colour, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or any other protected characteristic prohibited by law.
Please be aware, Sherwin-Williams recruiting team members will never request a candidate to provide a payment, ask for financial information, or sensitive personal information like national identification numbers, date of birth, or bank account numbers during the application process.
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