Warehouse Supervisor
Houghton le Spring, ENG, GB, DH4 5SA
Position: Warehouse Supervisor
Location: Sunderland
Contract Type: Permanent
Reports To: Warehouse Manager
Driving the future of automotive. We’re Lear For You.
Company Overview
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. Further information about Lear is available at lear.com, or follow us on Twitter @LearCorporation
Key Responsibilities
- 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
Key Skills & Qualifications
- 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