Our client is looking for a Warehouse Manager/Supervisor to join their team. The ideal candidate will be an experienced, reliable, and organised professional with strong leadership skills and a solid understanding of warehouse operations. The successful candidate should be able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate excellent attention to detail, and maintain high standards of professionalism, accuracy, and safety.
Key Responsibilities
- Overall management of the warehouse and its day-to-day operations
- Ensuring that monthly throughput and productivity targets are met
- Look for more efficient ways to improve processes in the warehouse
- Compile and submit accurate daily, weekly and monthly reports on stock levels, throughput, shrinkage/variances, staff productivity and security incidents
- Maintain organised, audit-ready documentation and records to support internal and external audits
- Report key metrics and any material irregularities directly to the Supervisor, escalating urgent matters immediately
- Manage warehouse employees to ensure everybody is performing to the required standard and that tasks are completed on time.
- Look for ways to boost employee productivity
- Enforce company policies, procedures and codes of conduct consistently and fairly, including managing poor performance and misconduct in accordance with company policy and South African labour legislation
- Train, coach and mentor warehouse staff on safe work practices, stock control procedures and security protocols
- Report key metrics and any material irregularities directly to the Supervisor, escalating urgent matters immediately
- Enforce strict access control to the warehouse and high-value storage areas, including visitor, contractor and staff entry/exit procedures
- Monitor and manage CCTV, alarm systems, scales and any other loss-prevention equipment on site; report faults or tampering immediately
- Identify and escalate any suspected theft, fraud, collusion or irregular conduct promptly to management
- Ensure segregation of duties between receiving, weighing, processing and dispatch functions to reduce opportunities for collusion or theft
- Maintain strict custody and control over keys, access cards, safe/vault access and any other security-critical items
- Overall responsibility for the inventory and stock of the warehouse
- Daily inventory checks and stock takes, and reporting of this to management
- Record inventory on the company system to ensure that this corresponds to the physical inventory
- Oversee the quality of the inventory and stock received and report to management on quality changes
- Resolve any inventory management problems or concerns
- Arrange, manage and oversee the loading of containers for shipment
- Ensure that the inventory quantities correlate with shipping weights
- Compile and submit accurate daily, weekly and monthly reports on stock levels, throughput, shrinkage/variances, staff productivity and security incidents
- Maintain organised, audit-ready documentation and records to support internal and external audits
- Report key metrics and any material irregularities directly to the Supervisor, escalating urgent matters immediately
Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12.
- Qualification in Warehouse Management, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a related field is advantageous.
- Proven warehouse management/supervisory experience.
- Strong inventory and stock control experience.
- Experience managing warehouse staff and daily operations.
- FMCG, manufacturing, distribution, or inventory-based environment experience is preferred.
Ready to take the next step in your warehouse management career? If you have the leadership experience, organisational skills, and operational expertise needed to excel in this role, we would love to hear from you. Apply today!
Please do not apply for the position if you do not meet the minimum requirements.
Should you not receive a response to your application within two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.