About the role
Operational and Leadership tasks
- Coaching, Training and development of employees along with the senior team leader.
- Conducting team based accident/incident investigations as and when they arise. Ensuring safe working practices are adhered to and maintaining a safe working environment at all times
- Support the development and oversight of the continuous improvement process
- Managing your team to monitor and improve working methods to increase productivity and/or safety.
- Plan and organise Warehouse functions to be carried out in a timely and effective manner. Including planning of manning and sawing activities.
- Managing your team to supervise material movement, coordinating third party service providers and internal departments as necessary to ensure timely and efficient execution, in own warehouse as well as external locations.
- Manage external contractors via the permit to work process
- Work in collaboration with internal stakeholders to address topical issues whilst taking ownership and reporting any issues to senior warehouse team leader.
QHSE
- Drive safety first approach and culture of feedback and improvement
- Adhere to QHSE policies, procedures, training, culture, compliance, audits investigation/root cause analysis, follow up and continuous improvement
- Ensure equipment, PPE and Machinery is suitable and safe
- Collaborate with QHSE to identify and define suitable/sufficient risk assessments and safe systems of work
Site Performance
- Work with the senior warehouse team leader to ensure communications is executed in line with company strategy including tool box talks, stop to fix, start of shift briefs, weekly/quarterly comms
- Identify cost efficiencies and productivity improvements
- Optimising the manpower in your area to maintain capacity, value added activity is saw cutting.
- Support the senior warehouse team leader in monitoring KPIs and communicating these with the wider team
- Ensure timely and accurate communication with all relevant departments on any factors which will impact on delivery dates, commitments to customers and identify opportunities to improve
- Implement 5s culture as best practice and ensure these standards are adhered to daily
People
- Work with the senior warehouse team leader to identify skills gaps and support training requirements accordingly
- Coach and Develop team members and drive employee engagement as well as a positive workplace culture
- Create an open door work environment where everyone has a voice to enable a continuous improvement ethos where the cultivation of ideas are for free
- Be present and accessible to support all site team members
- Act as a Change champion- lead by example and promote change initiatives positively and effectively.
Qualifications
- Good secondary education or time served equivalent
- Six Sigma/LEAN/5s experience – preferred
- FLT Counterbalance, Side loader, Overhead Crane & Band Saw – experience in any of these areas is preferred
- Familiar with hand held scanners
- Previous experience in metal industry - preferred
- Having worked in a team leader role, preferably in the manufacturing environment
- People management skills
- SAP Knowledge - Preferred
Hours of work: 8am-4:30pm (Mon-Fri)
About Royal Van Leeuwen
Wholesale
We are a globally operating trading company specialized in steel pipes, and pipe and tube applications. We are active in virtually all industrial sectors. Spread throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and America, we ensure that materials are available anywhere in the world, customized if needed. Our employees have specialist knowledge of sourcing, project management, logistics & stock planning and work closely together with our customers. Global logistics and knowledge of products and customer applications makes us a leading company in our markets.
About the role
Operational and Leadership tasks
- Coaching, Training and development of employees along with the senior team leader.
- Conducting team based accident/incident investigations as and when they arise. Ensuring safe working practices are adhered to and maintaining a safe working environment at all times
- Support the development and oversight of the continuous improvement process
- Managing your team to monitor and improve working methods to increase productivity and/or safety.
- Plan and organise Warehouse functions to be carried out in a timely and effective manner. Including planning of manning and sawing activities.
- Managing your team to supervise material movement, coordinating third party service providers and internal departments as necessary to ensure timely and efficient execution, in own warehouse as well as external locations.
- Manage external contractors via the permit to work process
- Work in collaboration with internal stakeholders to address topical issues whilst taking ownership and reporting any issues to senior warehouse team leader.
QHSE
- Drive safety first approach and culture of feedback and improvement
- Adhere to QHSE policies, procedures, training, culture, compliance, audits investigation/root cause analysis, follow up and continuous improvement
- Ensure equipment, PPE and Machinery is suitable and safe
- Collaborate with QHSE to identify and define suitable/sufficient risk assessments and safe systems of work
Site Performance
- Work with the senior warehouse team leader to ensure communications is executed in line with company strategy including tool box talks, stop to fix, start of shift briefs, weekly/quarterly comms
- Identify cost efficiencies and productivity improvements
- Optimising the manpower in your area to maintain capacity, value added activity is saw cutting.
- Support the senior warehouse team leader in monitoring KPIs and communicating these with the wider team
- Ensure timely and accurate communication with all relevant departments on any factors which will impact on delivery dates, commitments to customers and identify opportunities to improve
- Implement 5s culture as best practice and ensure these standards are adhered to daily
People
- Work with the senior warehouse team leader to identify skills gaps and support training requirements accordingly
- Coach and Develop team members and drive employee engagement as well as a positive workplace culture
- Create an open door work environment where everyone has a voice to enable a continuous improvement ethos where the cultivation of ideas are for free
- Be present and accessible to support all site team members
- Act as a Change champion- lead by example and promote change initiatives positively and effectively.
Qualifications
- Good secondary education or time served equivalent
- Six Sigma/LEAN/5s experience – preferred
- FLT Counterbalance, Side loader, Overhead Crane & Band Saw – experience in any of these areas is preferred
- Familiar with hand held scanners
- Previous experience in metal industry - preferred
- Having worked in a team leader role, preferably in the manufacturing environment
- People management skills
- SAP Knowledge - Preferred
Hours of work: 8am-4:30pm (Mon-Fri)
About Royal Van Leeuwen
Wholesale
We are a globally operating trading company specialized in steel pipes, and pipe and tube applications. We are active in virtually all industrial sectors. Spread throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and America, we ensure that materials are available anywhere in the world, customized if needed. Our employees have specialist knowledge of sourcing, project management, logistics & stock planning and work closely together with our customers. Global logistics and knowledge of products and customer applications makes us a leading company in our markets.