Warehouse supervisor 

Annual salary: £23,000 

Leave: four weeks plus bank holidays

Working hours: 34.5 hours day times weekdays 

On site not work from home 

Flexible hours not available 

Nest pension scheme 

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

Job description 

We’re a charity providing supported volunteering and we need someone to oversee day to day operations in our warehouse in Hillfields, Coventry, 

In this job you’ll be supervising people with learning difficulties working in our 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 our social enterprises run smoothly including serving customers and working with our 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 fork lift truck operation 

Essential – willingness to complete a first 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 e mail is info@crowrecycling.co.uk and 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.  Closing date January 1 2026,