Senior Service Operator

To lead a warehouse services team in order to maximise the control of: Safety, Quality, and Efficiency, through people and effective communication, to ensure the efficient movement of raw materials and finished goods within production areas. Maximise Safety

• Actively contribute to safety reviews.
• Raise near miss and incident reports and review required actions
• Comply with RMB safety policies and procedures.
Maximise Quality / Service
• Adopt a "right first time" approach to working practices
• Ensure that housekeeping and hygiene standards are maintained at a high level.
Maximise Efficiency
• Optimise efficiency of staff , trucks and live rack by ensuring stock moving in and out of the warehouse and Blowmould areas
Minimise Costs
• Encourage/contribute to cost saving initiatives.
Maximise People Contribution
• Adopt a High Profile on Shop Floor
• Ensure that all HR procedures such as RTW are carried out as required.
• Provide and encourage an atmosphere of involvement.
• Ensure that Personal Development Reviews are carried out as required and in an effective manner
• Encourage the future development of warehouse staff
Maximise Communication
• Communicate relevant information to team members via briefing and training sessions on a regular basis.
• Provide feedback from customer visits/audits.
Safety
• Ensure safety is first and foremost in every activity.
• Work and promote compliance to procedure.
• Comply with RMB safety policies and procedures.
• Discipline and eliminate any and all unsafe practices.
• Control and regulate the use of Banksmen and all work based transport-related procedures.
• Implement and monitor any and all procedural changes.
Quality and Service
• Work and promote compliance to procedure.
• Actively contribute to quality checks and procedural review.
• Ensure that routine quality and safety inspections are correctly carried out.
• Builds effective relationships with people at all levels, while motivating and energising others.
Leadership
• Provides vision and direction, inspires others to follow. Takes responsibility for involving,
Commitment to self-development
• Is not limited by previous experience and engages actively in improvement activities.
Leading Change
• Plans for and successfully introduces change leading to improvements.
Drive and self-motivation
• Achieves success with others, consistently operates as an example for others.
Meeting customer needs
• Understands the importance of identifying and meeting the needs of external and internal customers.
Building customer focus
• Works consistently to achieve customer focus and improve service standards within the team.
Performance focus
• Uses resources effectively, with a clear focus on critical tasks and the achievement of objectives.
Decision-making
• Analyses situations, makes sound judgements and takes appropriate decisions.
Company/Department Strategy and Plans
• Understands his/her departmental plans, objectives and values in detail, how they fit with those of other departments and the inter-dependencies.
• Guides and monitors the team's performance taking actions and decisions to ensure work is constantly aligned to the departmental goals.
• Takes reasonable risks to overcome problems considering the impact of actions on own and other parts of the business.
• Communicates the plans, objectives and values to team members and ensures each person understands how they can contribute to the achievement of them.
Commercial Awareness
• Has an understanding of what drives cost within own area, an appreciation of the factors which influence profit, and use that understanding to achieve cost and service KPI's.
• Strives to reduce costs within own area wherever possible without comprising on quality or service.
• Monitors performance KPI's and communicates them to team members to secure involvement for continuous improvements and cost reduction.
Policies, Procedures and Standards
• Knows when and to whom to refer to for specialist advice.
Customer Service
• Works with customers on a day to day basis to improve the service provided to them.
• Has a good understanding of customer requirements and seeks to meet or exceed them.
• Monitors the standards of service through KPI's communicating results to team members on a regular basis.
• Takes personal responsibility for ensuring service related problems for his/her area are corrected referring them to the appropriate person if action outside his/her own remit is required.
Health, Safety and Environment
• Develops a basic understanding of the Robert McBride Ltd. Health, Safety and Environmental Policies. Completes handbook within 12 months.
• Ensures procedures and safety and environmental performance standards are adhered to and maintained.
• Report all major instances of quality and service failure.
• Drive and commitment to hygienic working practices audits and checks.
• Implement and monitor any and all procedural changes.
Efficiency
• Ensure that the workload in each area is kept constant and within the correct boundaries to promote and ensure the greatest efficiency.
• Constantly monitor work areas to ensure continuous effective working.
Cost
• Promote and manage cost saving initiatives.
People Contribution
• Assume a very visible and approachable shop floor position.
• Promote and encourage an atmosphere of involvement, ownership, transparency and personnel responsibility through regular briefings
• Manage and control holidays and absence to ensure minimal impact.
• Build a "next in command" structure through training and involvement.
• Promote very clear lines of procedure and responsibilities.
Communication
• Communicate and engage all team members via briefings
• Conduct all communication openly and with transparency and ensure all team members are updated.
• Monitors Filling and Blowmould plans to ensure objectives are met
• Monitor stock aging and usage to maintain flow of stock through Live Rack.
• Liaise with internal and external customers to maintain customer service.
• Return unused components to stock ensuring accuracy of records
• Manage Live Rack and Dan Palletisers/wrappers
• Liaise with Logistex to manage any operational issues with Live Rack
• Effectively allocates the stock to production.
• Manages the time schedules of the internal stock movements from storage
• Is able to manage resources to execute the daily/weekly tasks.
• Can effectively conduct audits and reconcile any discrepancies.
Communication
• Communicates at all levels clearly, listens and involves others in direction and goal setting.
Team Building
• Ensures that any employee failing to comply with relevant standards is dealt with in accordance with the RMB General Safety Notice procedure Ch3: 30-31 as appropriate.
• Ensures the effective communication of safety and environmental related matters between departments, across the shift system and within the department.
• Sets a personal example.
• Ensures that only trained and authorised personnel are permitted to undertake any task/operation. With the exception of a trainee under supervision.
• Ensure adequate licences are held for FLT's and manage refresher training in line with company policy.
Quality
• Treats quality as a key part of their work on a daily basis and supports initiatives or changes in process as they arise.
• Has a strong understanding of the tasks required to comply with local quality instructions and ensures they are adhered to rigidly.
• Takes personal responsibility for corrective actions / non-conformances in their area. Seeks assistance and raises awareness if they perceive there are potential compliance issues in their area.
• Contributes to diagnostic and continuous improvement exercises, by sharing information or undertaking work as part of improvement teams.
• Communicates improvements, and guides, monitors team members in their completion of quality based tasks.
Systems
• Has a through knowledge of the SAP transactions and processes and Logistex software
• Able to interrogate and investigate inventory accuracy and discrepancies.
Continuous Improvement
• Knowledge of suitable processes and skills application.
• Participates in continuous improvement activities.
  
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