Warehouse Supervisor

**Date**:Oct 30, 2024

**Location**: Melbourne, AU

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we've been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people's lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We're active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It's what you'd expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that's dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let's paint the future together.

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**About the Role**:
We are looking for a **Warehouse** **Supervisor** to join our global company - **AkzoNobel. **The role will be reporting to the **Logistics** **Manager** and based in our **Victoria** manufacturing and office in **Sunshine North.**

Manage the transport and distribution of all finished goods from Sunshine Site direct to customers or to other warehouses. Manage the raw material movement in and out of the store in an efficient and accurate manner to meet schedules relied upon by interfacing departments and to ensure inventory accuracy is maintained at all times.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Development** - Develop individual team members and build a team which is collectively capable and fully engaged in delivering on the company targets.
- **Inventory Accuracy** - Manage the safe, proper and timely storage of all raw materials and finished goods in accordance with the relevant quality standards and company guidelines, and investigate stock discrepancies, so that accurate levels of stock are maintained and always recorded.
- **Pre-batching** - Co-ordinate the pre batching of all requested raw materials for the Paint & Powder plants daily to ensure that production delays caused by material shortages are minimized.
- **Support** - contribute to the formulation of site objectives from a logistics perspective and ensure site capabilities, constraints and HSE considerations are incorporated into the site plan.
- **Communicate strategy** - Ensure the business strategy is cascaded to the team effectively to ensure appropriate alignment of focus and relevant information.

**Benefits**:

- Job stability - Full-time Permanent position
- Office based role - Monday to Friday
- Competitive salary with an annual incentive program
- Enjoy our employee benefits on discounted private health insurance with Bupa, free onsite physio for you to use every Friday, subsidised assistance to cover your choice of health and wellbeing programs, free access for you and your family on our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more

**What we need**:
Ideally, you would have the following as it will provide a high chance of success for you and us
- Tertiary qualified or higher
- 3-5 years' experience in warehouse and distribution
- Have strong communication skills and good problem-solving skills, be a strong team player with good interpersonal skills and able to work cross functionally;
- Have strong levels of resilience, able to work under pressure with little supervision, drive for results and quality oriented.
- Drive for sustainability, quality and safety in all facets of the business.

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 43329