Stores Supervisor

Location: Falkirk

Come join Alexander Dennis on our mission to save the planet. We are transforming public transport globally by designing, manufacturing, and servicing greener, more eco-friendly, buses and coaches.

Our people are our biggest asset, making us the hugely successful company we are. We are transforming how we work, offering team members more flexibility around how they live and work.

What does that mean for you?

• We aim to reward our people at the level they deserve.
• Generous salary, bonus and overtime potential
• Pension scheme to help you save for the future
• Annual leave entitlement which increases with tenure
• Life assurance and pension schemes to help you and your family save for the future
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme which offers practical, impartial support on issues impacting your life
• Cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, and regular meditation sessions as your health and well being is important to us.

Interested and want to find out more? Check out our LinkedIn and YouTube!

Your dream role:

As part of the Alexander Dennis warehouse team this position is key to the successful and effective on time delivery of materials to point of use.  Responsible for ensuring the movement of materials is done safely and on time to minimise impact to production.  Managing a small team, the Warehouse/Line Supervisor will be responsible for motivating and coaching their team to work effectively ensuring they deliver all performance objectives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Support all team members in the effective on time delivery of material to the point of use in compliance with the company policies and procedures.
• Identify discrepancies between inventory records and take action.
• Investigate causes of lost or damaged shipments and other matters; make adjustments where necessary.
• General supervision of the warehouse team including training development, holidays and cover, overtime, sickness reporting and general performance.
• Plan warehouse work operations in accordance with shipments, received, store orders, perish-ability, and stock rotation requirements.
• Ensure kits are picked and called off as per MPS and agreed kitting methods.
• Schedule and assign warehouse crew to meet schedules to handle daily volume efficiently.
• Supervise warehouse crews in a unionised environment.
• Supervise truck loading, order selecting, and receiving. .
• Coach, train, and lead work teams to achieve performance expectations as it relates to specialisation in receiving, processing, storage, order assembly or loading.
• Ensure behaviour’s support and promote ADL’s vision and values
• Ensure all material movements are transacted on time
• Hold tier 1 meetings daily, including weekly review of departmental KPIs and attendance at both tier 2 and tier 3 meetings.
• Act as a conduit to provide operations status updates on materials availability and seek information from material planning teams where necessary.
• Deliveries on time and in full for production and Goods In deliveries
• Meets expectations under 5 S’s scorecard
• Reduction in loss or damaged good reported
• Meets Company HSSE policy / expectations
• Creates a strong cohesive team and builds collaborative relationships to deliver results
• Demonstrates behaviours in line with Company vision and values

What will you bring:

• Must have experience in warehouse operations and team management.  Be able to demonstrate background in material handling, purchasing, and stock control.
• Strong customer focus
• Understanding of ISO standards and quality management systems
• Strong communicator who can take ownership and deliver a clear message
• Ability to work in fast paced environment and think on their feet
• Ability to multitask, organising workload to manage time effectively
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable to situations
• A creative and innovative thinker who is willing to challenge the ‘status quo’
• Demonstrates strong decision making and sound judgement
• Ability to drive continuous improvement
• Works within and applies ADL’s policies and procedures
• Works ethically and demonstrates integrity in his approach
• Takes a consultative approach to working with others and adapts his communication style to suit audience
• Leads by example and demonstrates strong leadership within role
• Coaches and mentors’ team to encourage excellent performance

Next steps:

If this sounds like you, and you’re interested in coming ‘aboard’, then we would love to hear from you. Alongside uploading your CV, please share a short covering letter detailing why you’re interested and why we should hire you!

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We care deeply about being inclusive and we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Due to the volume of vacancies and applications, we would prefer that you submit your application online. If however, you require an alternative method of applying, please give us call on (phone number removed) or send an email to (email address removed) IND-L