Warehouse Supervisor

Position:Warehouse Supervisor
Location:Sunderland
Contract Type:Permanent
Reports To:Warehouse Manager

Driving the future of automotive. We’re Lear For You.

Lear, a global automotive technology leader in Seating and E-Systems, enables superior in-vehicle experiences for consumers around the world. Our diverse team of more than 173,000 talented employees in 37 countries is driven by a commitment to innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability. Lear is Making every drive better™ by providing the technology for safer, smarter, and more comfortable journeys. Lear, headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, serves every major automaker in the world and ranks #189 on the Fortune 500.

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• Represent the company in a professional, positive, and customer-focused manner
• Ensure safe, efficient, and compliant warehouse operations in line with HSE standards
• Plan, coordinate, and monitor receipt, storage, movement, and dispatch of goods
• Drive zero tolerance for quality deviations to meet customer deliverables
• Maintain accurate inventories through physical counts and system reconciliation
• Ensure accuracy of all goods-in / goods-out documentation and stock labelling
• Ensure warehouse IT, WMS, and automated systems are accurate and up to date
• Optimize warehouse layout, space utilization, and future capacity planning
• Identify, recommend, and implement process and system improvements
• Reduce waste and drive continuous improvement, cost reduction, and efficiency
• Maintain best-practice logistics standards, policies, and procedures
• Lead, coach, and develop warehouse staff and team leaders to meet KPIs and deadlines
• Monitor and manage time and attendance for the materials team

• Strong knowledge of logistics KPIs
• Experience working with WMS / ERP / MRP systems
• Hands-on experience with continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Kaizen, Kanban, 5S, PDCA, Gemba)
• Solid PC skills:
  Excel, Word, Outlook

• Preferred experience with MRP systems, ideally AS400 / BPCS