About the position
DBN000261 - Warehouse Supervisor – Cape Town - Northern Suburbs
Purpose of the Job:
Making sure the business's operations run as efficiently, economically, legally, and with a dedication to providing top-notch services, as possible.
Required Qualifications:
- Matric pass
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in warehousing and logistics
- Computer Literacy – MS Word, Excel, Email and Teams
- Forklift competency advantageous
- Must have Timber/Board experience - not negotiable
Technical Competencies & Experience:
- Stock damage reporting
- Spreadsheets recording truck and forklifts repairs and maintenance etc.
- Ensuring the operational side of the business is operating at optimal efficiency, cost effectiveness, compliance and commitment to 1st class service delivery
- Inventory management – strict adherence to goods movement processes
- Receipting of stock, despatch, product labelling, repackaging, weekly cycle counts, damage control and reporting etc
- Warehouse, equipment and fleet maintenance
- Supervise warehouse staff – handling of product, housekeeping, repackaging, product labelling, training, safety gear
- Logistics and planning – daily load and route planning
- Delivery note and pod control
- Managing transport costs by negotiating with 3rd party transporters for best rates and services, vehicle and delivery tracking
- Ensure layout of warehouse is optimized for best possible use of space and access to product within compliance regulations
- Supervise the destuffing of containers, track container updates and communicate to all concerned, daily, weekly and monthly reporting of destuffing
- Quarterly stock take preparation and counts
Behavioural Competencies:
- Ability to quickly understand new businesses and operational models
- Excellent leadership and communication skills
- High attention to detail with strong analytical capability
- Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on
- Trustworthy, must have a high level of integrity
Please Note - Should you not hear back from us within the next 2 weeks, please consider your application as unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- timber
- wood
- warehouse supervisor
- head of warehouse
