First Line Manager - Warehouse

Grade: RCSN

Contract Type: Permanent (Full\-Time)

Shift patterns: 38 hours, Friday to Monday, 1pm \- 11pm

Location: Coventry, CV2 2TA

Are you an experienced warehouse team leader or supervisor looking to take the next step in your logistics career? Do you thrive in a fast\-paced environment where safety, people leadership, and operational performance are key?

DHL Supply Chain is looking for a First Line Manager to lead operational teams, drive performance, and ensure the safe and efficient delivery of warehouse operations.WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead and supervise warehouse operations, ensuring productivity, quality, and service level targets are achieved across your area of responsibility.


• Manage daily resource planning, monitor operational performance, and take corrective action to address performance gaps and changing priorities.


• Promote a strong safety culture through compliance with health and safety standards, incident management, and behavioural safety activities.


• Coach, develop, and support team leaders and warehouse colleagues, driving engagement, performance, and succession planning.


• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, including Kaizen activities, process standardisation, and operational excellence programmes.

• Someone with previous warehouse or logistics operations experience in a supervisory, team leader, or people management role. Essential.


• A confident leader who can manage teams, allocate resources effectively, and maintain performance in a busy operational environment.


• An individual with strong communication, coaching, problem\-solving, and conflict resolution skills.


• Someone who is passionate about safety, continuous improvement, and delivering results through high operational standards.


• A proactive and resilient person who can adapt to changing priorities and make decisions with minimal supervision.

• Free parking and on\-site canteen


• 33 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days


• Discretionary bonus based on performance


• Join our generous pension scheme and benefit from an 8% employer contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution


• Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations


• Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts


• Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice


• Visit https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/working\-at\-dhl\-supply\-chain to learn more

We're the global leaders in supply chain management with 188,000 people in over 50 countries. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more.

BUILDING AN INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE

At DHL, we're all about creating a workplace where everyone's skills and experiences matter, and where you can be your true self every day.

As proud supporters of the Armed Forces Covenant, we value the skills and experience of ex\-service personnel and are dedicated to helping our veterans find jobs.

Please be aware that interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place during the week commencing 5th October. Applications received after this date may not be considered but will be added to our talent pool for future opportunities, subject to your consent. Please also be aware that we review applications continuously and where we have a large number of applications the application period may close ahead of the provisional interview date. To ensure your application is considered we recommend submitting it as early as possible.

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