Warehouse & Logistics Manager in Deeside

ROLE – Warehouse & Logistics Manager 📅Employment type - Fixed term contract - to become permanent 💵Salary (pro rata) – Circa. £45k P/A + package 📍Location: Deeside / North Wales 🕒Working week: 40hrs p/w Mon – Fri (Early finish on Fridays) Our client: A Leading UK manufacturing and distribution organisation supplying products across the UK and internationally. From their expensive manufacturing site in North Wales located close to Deeside and Chester, they operate a high-volume production facility. They are going through a period of development and investment due to continued growth and are looking for a forward-thinking Warehouse & Logistics Manager to help them improve and take their operations to the next level. The role: To lead and coordinate all warehouse, inventory, logistics, dispatch, transport, and stock control activities and ensuring materials and finished goods are received, stored, controlled, and dispatched safely, accurately, efficiently, and in accordance with customer, business, SHEQ, and legal requirements. Key Duties and responsibilities: * Lead and coordinate warehouse, inventory, dispatch, transport, and stock-control operations across all internal and third-party storage locations. * Maintain accurate inventory records and stock accuracy for raw materials, packaging, pallets, finished goods, waste, and third-party stock. * Manage goods receipt, stock movements, reconciliations, cycle counts, stock takes, and audits, ensuring FIFO/FEFO rotation and full traceability. * Investigate stock discrepancies, damage, shortages, and obsolete stock, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence. * Plan and coordinate daily inbound and outbound transport, aligning dispatches with production schedules, customer requirements, and service levels. * Book carriers, collections, export shipments, and delivery appointments; optimise routes, loads, transport costs, and carrier performance. * Oversee picking, loading, pallet preparation, and dispatch, ensuring orders are complete, accurate, correctly documented, and delivered on time. * Prepare and verify export, import, customs, and shipping documentation, ensuring compliance with UK and international trade requirements. * Ensure materials and packaging availability for production, coordinating priorities with Production, Purchasing, Planning, and Logistics teams. * Manage customer returns, rejections, quarantine stock, delivery failures, complaints, and transport-related claims, maintaining accurate records and driving corrective actions. * Supervise drivers, carriers, and site arrivals/dispatch activity, ensuring correct site procedures, paperwork, PPE, traffic management, and loading controls. * Maintain safe, compliant warehouse operations, including risk assessments, SOPs, material-handling equipment controls, housekeeping, and incident investigation. * Lead waste inventory, movement, segregation, and reduction initiatives, monitoring aged and obsolete stock and supporting environmental compliance. * Lead, train, and develop the warehouse and logistics team, allocating work, monitoring performance, and promoting accountability and continuous improvement. * Drive operational efficiency and cost control through improved warehouse utilisation, reduced errors and stock losses, 5S standards, and carrier/labour cost reviews. Person Specification: * Vocational qualifications (HND / Level 4-5) in Logistics and Warehouse Management * Proven experience of warehouse and logistics management in a busy and fast paced manufacturing environment * Proven experience dealing with suppliers, haulage and transport companies UK and International * Experienced ERP/MRP system management and logistics process improvement * Team development and management * Proven organisational, planning and communications skills within a busty supply chain environment 📩 Interested? Send your CV to the G Force Recruitment team via CV Library. One of our specialist consultants will be in touch shortly. We take your data seriously. G Force Recruitment is fully compliant with the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018