CROW Recycling: Warehouse Supervisor Vacancy

Voluntary Action Coventry; Coventry; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A community nonprofit organization in Coventry is seeking a Warehouse Supervisor to oversee day-to-day operations in the warehouse. The role involves supervising disabled adults, operating machinery, and ensuring smooth social enterprise operations. Responsibilities also include customer service and a small amount of administration. The ideal candidate will have experience in care, machine operation, and a willingness to complete first aid training. This full-time position offers a dedicated opportunity to support the community and ensure safety.

Qualifications

• Experience of caring for disabled adults through paid work or informal experience.
• Experience of operating machinery, willing to learn forklift truck operation.
• Willingness to complete a first aid course and provide first aid cover.
• Able to undertake manual handling training and carry out safe lifting.

Responsibilities

• Supervise day-to-day operations in the warehouse for disabled adults.
• Manage the operation of shredding and baling machinery.
• Serve customers and schedule collections/deliveries with the van driver.
• Act as a first aider and manage risks in the warehouse.
• Perform limited admin tasks, answering phones and checking emails.

Skills

Experience of caring for a disabled adult

Operating machinery

First aid certification

Manual handling training

Driving licence

Tools

Forklift truck

Job description

CROW Recycling: Warehouse Supervisor Vacancy

JOB TITLE: Warehouse Supervisor

WORKING HOURS: 34.5 hours weekdays, flexible hours not available

LEAVE: Four weeks plus bank holidays – three weeks to be taken during Christmas and late August shut downs.

LOCATION: On site not work from home

DEADLINE: 1 January, 2026

This role is subject to a DBS check for both the child and adult workforce

JOB DESCRIPTION:

CROW Recycling is a charity providing supported volunteering and needs someone to oversee day-to-day operations in the warehouse in Hillfields, Coventry. In this job you’ll be supervising people with learning difficulties working in the recycling and reuse social enterprises. That includes the operation of shredding and baling machinery. The people you’ll be supervising are mainly adults with learning difficulties along with a smaller number of school aged teenagers, also with learning difficulties, on work experience. Occasionally you’ll be helping show school pupils on educational visits around the warehouse.

You’ll also be ensuring the social enterprises run smoothly including serving customers and working with the van driver to schedule collections and deliveries.

You’ll be one of the organisation’s first aiders and play a key role in minimising everyday risks in the warehouse. You’ll have responsibility for unlocking the building in the morning and locking up at the end of the day.

This role includes a small amount of admin – mainly answering the phone when the office manager isn’t around, checking e-mails in the mornings and a limited amount of paper work to log waste paper destruction.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

• Essential – experience of caring for a disabled adult. This could be through paid care work or through informal experience such as caring for a relative.
• Essential – experience of operating machinery and willingness to learn including forklift truck operation.
• Essential – willingness to complete a first aid at work course and provide first aid cover.
• Essential – able to undertake manual handling training and carry out safe lifting in the warehouse.
• Desirable – Driving licence.

HOW TO APPLY:

Send a CV and letter of application to Crow Recycling.

The address is: Orchard House, Sparkbrook Street, Hillfields, Coventry CV1 5LB.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide names of referees which Crow will contact at the final stage of the process.

If you would like to find out more information please get in touch