Warehouse Supervisor in Bristol

SLX is a B Corp production and technical solution provider to the live events, TV & broadcast, sports and performing sectors. With over 40 years of experience, we have been the driving force behind innovative events and productions, delivering exceptional immersive experiences and live events.

Our Warehouse is key to every single job we deliver. This position will focus on the development and improvement of how we operate our warehouse to improve quality standards, increase productivity, and drive a culture of being the best through everything we do. The role will be responsible for a specific warehouse function and will deputise for other areas when required, leading, managing, and planning the collective workload to achieve productivity and quality objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Provision of effective leadership to the team, establishing clear expectations regarding responsibilities, behaviours and daily activities.
• Identify surplus and shortfalls with team resource and coordinate with other teams to balance resources across all areas to ensure the production plans for all teams are achievable.
• Complete appropriate staff timesheets and administrative duties if directed by the Warehouse Manager.
• Responsible for creating and sustaining a high-performance culture for the efficient running of the warehouse in conjunction with the rest of the warehouse management team.
• Be responsible and accountable for the accuracy of a stock control system and an effective production control system for the company assets, including additions to and deductions from warehouse shelf stock levels.
• Be proactive in identifying and implementing continuous improvement initiatives, monitoring and refining their effectiveness.
• Perform relevant stock checks when necessary and participate in the company annual stock take.
• At appropriate times provide resource to receive hired asset returns, account for assets returned and organise these for production processing prior to stock replenishment or contractual requirements, notifying SLX services of any damage to or missing assets.
• At appropriate times organise resource for picking, packing and loading of assets either from stock or work in progress as required for each Job.
• Manage the team to ensure output meets targets and quality is kept high.
• When required by the production plan utilise any temporary resource provided to support fulltime team members in productive activities, ensuring the competency of such resource to satisfy any production need and developing such competence when necessary.
• Develop a culture of maintaining a clean and tidy work environment to improve efficiency.
• Constantly monitor the production and general performance as well as conduct of fulltime and temporary resources, making adjustments as required.
• Comply with all the relevant Company policies, processes, procedures and administrative support activities as appropriate.
• Maintain risk assessments and COSH if directed by the Warehouse Manager.

Skills, knowledge & experience

• Excellent planning and time management skills.
• Strong management skills to drive a team to be ultra productive.
• Knowledge of technical equipment in the entertainment industry.
• Experience working on multiple projects and prioritising activities to meet business needs.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Enthusiastic, self‑motivated and able to motivate others.
• Completist finisher, seeing ALL tasks through to the end.
• Good attention to detail.
• Experience in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, confident working with people from all levels of the business.

Key details

• Bristol, UK
• Warehouse
• Full time
• £29,000 to £35,000 per annum (dependent on experience)