Depot Manager

Values – Depot Manager - Materials Handling

As part of Aprolis UK, our people are our most valuable asset, we are proud to recruit and train the very best in the forklift industry. Equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to ensure that, no matter what our customers’ need, they can handle it. Our values are:

• Entrepreneurship
• Courage
• Respect
• Friendliness

Our Depot at Langley are actively recruiting for a Depot Manager to work within a busy depot environment. You will ideally have experience working with materials handling equipment or similar.
You will be responsible for the depot, its facilities, people, customers and profit. You will look after health, safety, environment, service, after sales, rental, administration, reporting, compliance and budgets. You will be an experienced manager from a similar engineering field who has as a minimum service manager experience but preferably senior management experience.
Your time will predominantly be spent at the depot and within the region, you will have interactions with customers, engineers, sales, service management and inter-company colleagues. You will be commercially minded and focused on achieving profitability while offering first class service.

Job Description

Core Accountabilities – Depot Manager – Materials Handling

• A background within Materials Handling or similar and experience of managing a remote workforce
• Organised and driven individual with previous management and leadership experience
• Ability to motivate and organise teams and individuals while promoting communication and performance.
• A focus on customer requirements and expectations with the ability to meet or exceed these from an individual and team perspective
• Commercial outlook and mindset which facilitates profitable growth of the depot and wider company/group
• Planning and forecasting from a number of perspectives. Financial, workforce, aftersales and service.
• Maintaining high levels of health and safety within the depot and for your teams. Keeping out staff safe is important to us and you will be a key member of the leadership team.