Warehouse Shift Manager (nights)

Full Job Description

Why Greencore?

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day.
We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of 1.9bn.
Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Tamworth is a large picking depot and one of the busiest and most complexed in the area managing 5 major contracts and making over 2000 deliveries per day.


What you'll be doing

Shift: 5 from 7 - 10pm to 6am (nights)

As a Warehouse Shift Manager you'll manage a shift in the warehouse to ensure delivery of the inbound, picking and despatch plan and that the operational key performance indicators and costs are achieved

• Provide leadership and direction to the warehouse teams to ensure that there is an adequate resource plan, and that colleagues are supported in their roles and are effective
• Lead the risk assessment, accident investigation, operational inspection and behavioural monitoring processes that ensures a safe workplace and operation and appropriate corrective actions
• Manage operational controls, including administration and system compliance, to ensure that operational information relating to warehouse activities is accurate to demonstrate control in the event of an audit or investigation
• Manage development and engagement activities across the shift, to ensure that colleagues are enabled and delivering maximum performance
• Manage operational costs associated with the warehouse shift, in order to achieve key performance indicators
• Manage any contractor activity taking place on the shift to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements

What we're looking for

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

• Warehouse shift management experience
• People management experience (i.e. management of absence, disciplinary and grievances etc)
• Food safety experience
• Financial understanding
• Health and safety operational experience

These may be trained or developed. These do not all need to be in place at recruitment


If this sounds like you, join us and grow with Greencore, and be a part of driving our future success.


What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.