Warehouse Supervisor

Job Description
Lidl in Malta is currently looking to recruit a Warehouse Supervisor to join their team on a full-time basis. 

Job role:
Our Warehouse Supervisors form part of the management team within the warehouse and, therefore, have a very important role within the organization. In their day-to-day tasks, our Supervisors assist the Assistant Warehouse Manager in the smooth running of the stores and, in the absence of this figure, manage the warehouse independently. This means ensuring that the warehouse concept is applied correctly and in accordance with the principles of simplicity & productivity. Moreover, our Supervisors ensure that the warehouse operations are processed smoothly, in accordance with the statutory provisions. Our Warehouse is located in Burmarrad, but there might be some activities for the first period to be done in Handaq.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the training of new employees
• Ensuring that the workplace and tools are kept clean and tidy
• Order-picking goods according to orders from the stores
• Putting out materials for promotional plans
• Sorting and preparing returns for resale or for sending back to suppliers
• Processing breakages suitable for resale and preparing allocation to stores
• Rotating goods in accordance with their pre-collection date
• Carrying out warehouse inventory activities (for example: physically counting goods and pallet levelling)
• Checking the quality and quantity of incoming goods
• Checking the quality of pallets and making a note of pallets to be exchanged
• Implementing Company directives in order to ensure that the cold chain is maintained.

Requirements:

• The flexibility to work different shifts including on weekends and public holidays
• A positive attitude in the face of changing priorities
• A friendly communication style with your team and suppliers
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Electronic Mail
• The drive to work hard in a fast-paced environment
• Fluent knowledge of the English Language
• Knowledge of Maltese/Italian Languages will be considered an asset
• Previous experience in warehousing/storekeeping will be considered an asset.

Benefits:

• A full-time, 40 hours per week, contract
• A secure job with a solid and structured company
• Dedicated training plans to ensure you are set up for success
• A pleasant, yet demanding, work environment which is characterized by diverse work activities
• Development opportunities in a dynamic company that is continuously expanding
• Many fun activities will help to integrate into your team, even outside work hours.

Lidl:
Lidl Malta Ltd. is part of the Schwarz Group, a multinational group of companies founded in the 1970s and operating in the retail industry. Currently, the group is present in 30 countries in the world with more than 11.550 stores and 341.000 employees. Schwarz Group is among the top retailers in the world.  Lidl is today a renowned brand for both food and non-food products, reveling in quality goods, fresh products, and convenient prices on a daily basis.  Lidl Malta opened its very first three retail stores in 2008 and has expanded its network to the current 8 outlets. Since the beginning, the company’s core principles were simplicity, efficiency, and convenient prices, values that allowed the company to keep on growing at a steady pace. Fourteen years of operating on the Maltese islands brought about a lot of change and growth for the company: as the years progressed, so did its reach with the opening of other stores in order to better serve customers residing in the different areas of Malta and Gozo. Lidl is not only certified as Top Employer Europe, but Lidl Malta is also the only Maltese company certified as Top Employer Malta. Supermarkets are the most important version of our organization, but what you can see when you are visiting them is just the tip of the iceberg, since our organization involves different departments: from purchasing to logistics, from communication to human resources, from facility management to accountancy and all of them need to be well oiled to ensure the daily operations run smoothly and successfulness. So why Lidl? Because it offers various opportunities, growth, success, a dynamic team, and a career path. Lidl can fuel your passion for success… that’s why Lidl!