Training Manager

Gap personnel are proud to be working in partnership with The Range to support the recruitment at their brand-new Distribution Centre, the largest warehouse built in over 5 years in Stowmarket, Suffolk.

This is a permanent position and offer the successful candidate an exciting opportunity to join a fantastic organisation in a progressive warehousing and distribution environment.

We are recruiting for an experienced Training Manager ideally with a warehousing or industrial environment experience and are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated professional to join our team in our brand-new purpose-built distribution centre.The successful candidate will be required to design, develop and deliver systems and process training to our employees. As Training Manager, you will enable improvement through the development of enhanced workforce training and induction programmes.

Hours of Work:

Position: Permanent, Full-time

Hours: 40 per week Monday – Friday. Working hours may vary but pre planned, in advance between 6am and 6pm

About the Role:

• Working as part of a large workforce reporting to Human Resources Manager
• Leadership of own team of 8 trainers
• Focused primarily on manual handling equipment, warehouse processes and inductions.
• Scheduling and controlling compulsory refresher training, cross function upskilling, new recruit inductions and warehouse process training programme.   
• Responsible for ensuring that training is delivered for various types of material handling equipment (MHE) to our on-site operations team.

Knowledge and Skills, we need of you:

• Forklift trainer qualified an advantage but not essential.
• Manual handling equipment experience
• Microsoft excel, word & PowerPoint as you will be writing and refining policies and procedures.

Person Specification:

• Team player and great communicator with a strong work ethic and an engagement enthusiast
• This is a new site requiring policies, procedures, SSOW and routines to be understood and documented.

What’s in it for you – Good rate of pay plus benefits worth up to £1,740 per year.

• Excellent salary based on experience and qualifications.
• 33 days annual holiday including bank holidays.
• Canteen heavily subsidised
• Gym on site free to employees
• Parking on site free. Electrical charge units available
• Bike parking secure and undercover along with cycle to work funding scheme.
• Staff discount in The Range stores plus other shops & stores

What makes working for this leading brand different? Well, that’s easy:

• They are a Sunday Times Top Track 100 company and one of the UK’s fastest growing privately owned companies.
• The Range has grown enormously since it’s inception in 1989, and now has over 200 stores nationwide. People are at the heart of their retail concept, and they want to invest in their staff and make the future extraordinary.
• As a result of their success and ongoing expansion plans, they are opening their brand-new distribution centre in Stowmarket and this investment will create great opportunities with excellent onsite facilities and employee benefits.