Supervisor, Warehouse

<p>At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.</p><div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'>Position Summary</H2></div><div><p>Site based, 37.5 hrs per week, Monday to Friday.</p><p>The Warehouse Supervisor leads the daily Warehouse Operations & Distribution, ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant handling of inbound materials, internal movements, and outbound finished goods in line with site QMS requirements. The role safeguards the integrity and traceability of all inventories, optimises material flow and digital warehouse processes, and drives continuous improvement to support our strategic pillars of Operational Effectiveness, Zero‑Defect Manufacturing, Delivering the Perfect Order, and being an Employer of Choice.

Through effective people leadership, strong cross functional collaboration, and a proactive HSE culture, the Supervisor ensures reliable warehouse performance that underpins customer satisfaction and the wider success of the Leicester site.</p></div></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'>Duties</H2></div><div><ol style=margin-bottom 0cm; margin-top 0px;><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Provide strong leadership to the warehouse team, creating a high performance culture and deputising for the Warehouse Operations Manager when required.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Lead and supervise daily warehouse operations, ensuring efficient inbound processing, raw material flow, accurate customer order picking, and timely despatch.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Own and drive warehouse KPIs, ensuring they are accurately recorded, reviewed, and used to identify issues; lead corrective and preventive actions to improve performance.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Maintain tight inventory management, ensuring raw materials, WIP, and finished goods levels are accurate, controlled, and aligned with FIFO and ERP requirements.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Ensure exceptional accuracy in raw material and customer order picking, using robust process controls, checks, and digital tools to support perfect order fulfilment.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Manage warehouse capacity proactively, using inventory control reports to optimise space, material flow, and readiness for production changes.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Ensure safe, compliant handling and storage of dangerous goods, maintaining segregation rules, correct labelling, and adherence to all relevant regulations.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Oversee compliant shipment of hazardous products, ensuring authorised HAZMAT carriers are used and all documentation, packaging, and labelling is accurate.</li></ol></div></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'>Duties - cont'd</H2></div><div><ol style=margin-bottom 0cm; margin-top 0px;><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Lead continuous improvement activities, encouraging idea generation, implementing improvements, and demonstrating measurable benefits while supporting team involvement in CI processes.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Develop and support colleagues, providing training, coaching, regular performance feedback, and development opportunities in line with the organisation’s GPS framework.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Manage employee absence, ensuring proactive monitoring, timely return to work meetings, early interventions, and consistent application of policy.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Manage and develop talent, including succession planning and ensuring cross training to build team capability and resilience.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Champion 6S and workplace organisation, ensuring the warehouse and yard are consistently clean, safe and organised. </li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Ensure compliance with the Quality Management System, internal procedures, and warehouse related quality requirements.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Represent the Company as a leadership role model, demonstrating professionalism, integrity, and conduct aligned with STERIS values.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Support Company strategy and leadership direction, promoting a collaborative, solutions focused environment across the business.</p></li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;><p style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;> </p>Carry out any other reasonable duties aligned with the post holder’s skills, knowledge, and experience.</li></ol></div></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'>Education Degree</H2></div><ul style='margin-top 0;margin-bottom 0;' ><li>Vocational/Technical</li></ul></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'>Required Experience</H2></div><div><ol style=margin-bottom 0cm; margin-top 0px;><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>5 years’ experience working in warehousing and distribution, ideally within a fast paced, high volume environment.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>At least 2 years’ supervisory and line management experience, gained within a safety critical environment, including leading teams, developing people, managing performance, and using structured review and feedback processes.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>Forklift Truck (FLT) licences, Counterbalance and Reach desirable; training can be supported for the right candidate.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 0cm 0px; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;>A minimum of 2 years’ experience managing time critical and priority driven workloads, demonstrating strong organisational capability, resilience, and effective decision making under pressure.</li></ol></div></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'>Preferred Experience</H2></div><div></div></div><div style='padding 10px 0px;border 1px solid transparent;'><div style='font-size16px;word-wrap break-word;'><H2 style='font-size 1em; margin 0px'>Skills</H2></div><div><ol style=margin-bottom 0cm; margin-top 0px;><li style=background-color white; margin-right 0cm; font-size 12pt; font-family 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left 0px;>Strong Excel Microsoft Office proficiency. Strong skills in Excel for data analysis, KPI tracking, inventory reporting, and problem solving, with solid ability in Word and Outlook.</li><li style=background-color white; margin-right 0cm; font-size 12pt; font-family 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left 0px;>Clear and professional communication.

Able to convey information effectively to teams and leadership.</li><li style=background-color white; margin-right 0cm; font-size 12pt; font-family 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left 0px;>Critical and creative thinking. Uses analytical and innovative approaches to improve processes and solve operational challenges.</li><li style=background-color white; margin-right 0cm; font-size 12pt; font-family 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left 0px;>Strong interpersonal skills.

Builds positive working relationships and collaborates effectively across functions.</li><li style=background-color white; margin-right 0cm; font-size 12pt; font-family 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left 0px;>Effective problem solving. Applies structured, data‑driven thinking to identify root causes and implement lasting solutions.</li><li style=margin 0cm 0cm 3pt 0px; background-color white; font-size 12pt; font-family 'Times New Roman', serif;>Conflict resolution.

Handles disagreements constructively, promoting fair and positive outcomes.</li></ol><p style=margin 0cm; font-size 11pt; font-family Arial, sans-serif;> </p></div></div></div><p> </p><p>STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe.

For more information, visit <a href=https//www.steris.com>www.steris.com</a>.</p><p>STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. </p>