Logistics Team Leader 4

at  Gloucestershire County Council

LOGISTICS TEAM LEADER 4

Date: 29 Jan 2025
Job Location:Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Logistics Team Leader 4
• Job Location: Hempsted, Gloucester
• Salary: £32,115 - £35,235 p.a.
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 13/02/2025
• Job Requisition Number: 10455

ABOUT YOU:

We are looking for someone who has experience leading and managing a team. The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience as a Team Leader or Manager with a background in logistics and distribution.
• Passion, a great attitude, and cares about making a difference.
• Experience of line management, supervision, delegation, and performance assessment.
• Experience undertaking administration tasks, progress chasing and working to tight deadlines
• The ability to work under pressure and deal positively with stressful situations.
• Motivational skills that give the team purpose and understanding of the role they play in achieving strategic outcomes

Our values of accountability, integrity, empowerment, respect, and excellence are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Read more about our Values on our website.
If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you!

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Gloucestershire Equipment Loan Service (GELS) plays an important role in supporting the care sector in Gloucestershire, delivering community equipment on behalf of Health and Social Care to residents in Gloucestershire.
Join our team as a Logistics Team Leader and take charge of a dynamic team responsible for orchestrating deliveries, collections and maintenance of crucial medical and telecare equipment. Your role involves supervising, coaching, and guiding a team of dedicated Logistic Assistants and Logistic Officers, ensuring seamless day to day operations and delivering excellent customer service.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and line manage a team of Logistic Officers (drivers) and Logistic Assistants (driver’s assistants).
• Oversee the planning and allocation of work to the team.
• Ensure business needs and KPIs are met.
• Responsible for monitoring and improving performance and service standards.
  This is a great opportunity to join an established and supportive team, making a difference to people in Gloucestershire. Our teams include customer service, warehouse, transport, logistics, equipment refurbishment and finance & administration and provides supported employment for people with disabilities who experience substantial barriers to employment.
  We have two sites, at Hempsted in Gloucester and Mitcheldean in the Forest of Dean. To find out more about GELS, visit our webpages ‘What does Gloucestershire Equipment Loan Service do?’