Warehouse Shift Leader

Opportunity

At Maersk, we are on a revolutionary journey to simplify global trade, which will give us the chance to offer a major impact on the world economy, and on your career. At Maersk we want to be a true integrator of container logistics connecting and simplifying our customers’ supply chain through global end-to-end solutions. We count on our diverse people to make it happen. 

We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high performing teams.

By Joining Maersk, you will become part of the global family of the company that moves 20% of global trade everyday all the way, where one of our core values is Our Employees. It goes without saying that we value diversity: we thrive on the diversity of our talent in all its forms, and we see it as a strength in building high-performance teams across brands, cultures, and locations.

We offer

As one of the cornerstones of our values, we strive to deliver the right environment for the right people while fostering a culture of fairness, mutual respect, responsibility, and care for our business and our customers.

We have a competitive compensation and benefits package for our employees.

Key Responsibilities

To manage the running of a safe and efficient operation, working within clear guidelines to help achieve defined outcomes for the site and the customers.

To collaborate with other Shift leaders to achieve the site targets

Ensure that the Operational Budgets are achieved in their area and KPI’s are always challenged to find better and more efficient ways of work by engaging with their team and other internal stakeholders.

• Implement actions as directed to reduce or eliminate health and safety related risks
• Ensure the team applies the Safety Standards and relevant guidelines at all times
• Embed and drive a SAFETY FIRST culture

• Implement the required security measures to protect the site premises, including the safety of personnel, assets and of the customer's product for the required area

• Continuously contribute to the improvement of procedures to better achieve the prescribed outputs

• Respond to or escalate customer issues within clear guidelines and recommend solutions
• Live the Maersk Values around customer engagement

• Support the Operations Team with resource planning and management of, e.g. implement agreed processes to review performance, monitor absence and sickness and address issues within clear guidelines
• Implement feedback channels for employees (e.g. Performance Dialogue boards, daily briefing sessions, Round table, Engagement Survey action planning ) to enable active contribution to the improvement and development of the site

• Manage day-to-day performance, including achievement of agreed customer KPIs and other internal KPIs (eg. safety, operational, employee related etc)
• Conduct performance reviews and coaching with all direct reports and recommend performance ratings to management

• Support the environmental agenda and continuous improvement activities to increase environmental efficiency
• Actively promote the use of CI tools and methodology (Gemba, 5 Why, TIMWOOD)

We are looking for

• Microsoft Office knowledge
• Employment Law knowledge - Basic
• Understanding of different WMS
• Operational warehouse Supervision skills

• Communication and relationship building at all levels (Customer, Management, Operations).
• Ability to lead, direct and motivate across all departments.

• People management skills
• Fluent in French and English both in writing and speaking

You have been reading so far, we are glad to see you are interested. If you could see yourself in this role and are keen to be part of this journey at Maersk, we look forward to hearing from you!

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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