Warehouse Team Leader (Reach truck)
Job Description & Overview
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Warehouse Team Leader (Reach truck)</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Location: Peterborough, PE2</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Pay: £16.13 per hour</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Overtime rate: £18.60 per hour</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Shift: Afternoon shift, Monday to Friday 14:00-22:00 (37.5 hours per week)</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Breaks: 30 minutes unpaid</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Contract: Temp to perm after 3 months</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Required: Valid Reach Truck licence (Can be in house)</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Purpose of the Role</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">As a Warehouse Team Leader, you will lead a team of Warehouse Operatives to deliver daily pick/dispatch and goods in/out activity safely, accurately and on time. You'll coordinate resources in real time, monitor performance against targets, and ensure all policies, SOPs and legal</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">requirements are consistently followed in a freezer environment.</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Please note:</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">This is a freezer role and temperatures can be as low as -15°C.</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Key Responsibilities</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Lead, motivate and supervise warehouse operatives (including agency staff) to meet customer demand and shift targets</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Plan and allocate labour and tasks to ensure all agreed work is completed on time</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Run daily shift briefs covering workload, priorities and key communications</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Manage day-to-day warehouse operations and support hands-on work on the warehouse floor when needed</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Ensure compliance with SOPs and safe/legal food handling</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">requirements (temperature checks, equipment checks, stock rotation etc.)</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Promote hygiene and housekeeping standards, maintaining a "clean as you go" culture</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Ensure warehouse equipment is maintained and in safe working order</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Operate MHE as required and ensure daily checks are completed thoroughly</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Support regular and spot stock takes</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Complete frequent site walk rounds and report/escalate issues as required</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Maintain health & safety and quality standards; report incidents/near misses to management</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Ensure waste is segregated and disposed of correctly, recycling wherever possible</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Manage performance, attendance and conduct in line with company policies</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Where applicable, support investigations in line with disciplinary procedures</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Skills, Experience &</p>
<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Requirements (Essential)</h5>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Valid MHE licence (can be in house) - Reach Truck</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Counterbalance licence - beneficial to have</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Proven warehouse leadership/supervisory experience (team leader, chargehand, shift lead etc.)</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Strong knowledge of H&S and safe systems of work</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Confident communicator with the ability to brief, coach and drive standards</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Good attention to detail, numeracy and basic IT skills</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Comfortable working in a cold/freezer environmentWhat You Get</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Competitive hourly rate + weekly freezer bonus + paid overtime</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Stable Monday-Friday afternoon shift</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Temp-to-perm opportunity after 3 months (subject to performance/attendance)</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Interested? Apply online, or send your CV to -</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Should you require any support or assistance, please contact your local Gi Group office.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Gi Group Holdings Recruitment Limited are proud founding members of Menopause in business, corporate members for Neurodiversity in business, Disability Confident committed members, Gold status for the Armed Forces Covenant, Bronze trail blazers for Racial Equality matters and Age Friendly Employer pledge members.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">Gi Group Holdings Recruitment Limited group of companies includes Gi Recruitment Limited, Draefern Limited, Gi Group Recruitment Ltd, INTOO (UK) Limited, Marks Sattin (UK) Limited, TACK TMI UK Limited, Grafton Professional Staffing Limited, Encore Personnel Services, Gi Group Ireland Limited and Kelly Services (UK) Ltd. Gi Group Ireland Limited are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this role.</p>
<p class="text-muted mb-3">We are committed to protecting the privacy of all our candidates and clients. If you choose to apply, your information will be processed in accordance with the Gi Group Privacy Statement. To view a copy and to help you understand how we collect, use and process your personal data please visit the Privacy page on our Gi Group website</p>
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Key Details
- Date Posted: 13 Oct 2026
- Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Employment Type: Temporary
- Category: Distribution
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