Richard Dodd Email & Phone Number

Biggleswade, England, United Kingdom

Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Peterborough, England

Bourne, England

Manager in the highcare unit at the bourne site and an insight into the production of chilled products..

Corby

• Warehouse start up, implementing operating procedures, BRC, HACCP• Overseeing the contractors to ensure lighting, Racking, pick faces, offices were completed on time and to budget• Overseeing the migration of 35,000 pallets across 4 customers into the site for go live• Analysing sales data to provide labour plans, shift patterns, put away rules & pick face layouts• Overseeing Interviewing, training, H&S, forecasts, planning & labour requirements

Operations manager in a chilled FMCG environment looking after 3PL in 300,000 square foot warehouse with a weekly case pick volume of 900,000 cases in a day 1 for day 2 fast paced warehousing environment, accustomed to meeting challenging targets and despatching orders and store deliveries on time.Managing budgetary controls and ensuring customer service levels are met, managing 6 shift managers, 15 team leaders, 18 stock controllers, 105 warehouse operatives, Monitoring and providing KPI figures/morning reports for the GM & directors, reaching targets and keeping them at a sustained level, looking after the day to day operation and planning volumes and weekly labour, building labour plans to forecast and managing costs.Coaching the shift managers on creating and maintaining rota's for all staff ensuring all holidays and sickness are covered to meet operational requirements, carrying out investigations and disciplinary action, hearing and grievances, setting up processes and briefings to staff and staff appraisals.Overseeing projects, migrations of new business, Monthly meetings with the various customers and also there first point of contact with regards to their pick operation on site and dealing with any of there queries to a satisfactory outcome, also to look at continuous improvement plans for both parties to add value to the customer and the operation on site.

·Responsible for setting up warehouse and putting procedures into place for start up, interviewing & testing T/L/warehouse ops for associated areas ·Responsible for setting up and monitoring shift performance as a whole and associated areas ·Positively promoting the company’s Health and Safety Policy in the pursuit of excellence ·Liaising with Transport to produce a transport collection schedule which accurately reflects pick/load assembly completion times·Allocating labour and equipment into areas required to meet the needs of the operation·Carrying out development reviews with operatives to explore past performance and future targets, and identifying training requirements ·Setting Warehouse Operatives targets and monitoring performance·Man managing with clear and precise communication

Grantham

DC First Line Manager 2004 to 2006 ·Responsible for setting up and monitoring shift performance as a whole and associated areas ·Setting Warehouse Operatives targets and monitoring performance·Positively promoting the company’s Health and Safety Policy in the pursuit of excellence ·Liaising with Transport National Planning Centre to produce a transport collection schedule which accurately reflects pick/load assembly completion times·Allocating labour and equipment into areas required to meet the needs of the operation·Carrying out development reviews with operatives to explore past performance and future targets, and identifying training requirements ·Man managing with clear and precise communication·Working in all departments, goods in, goods out, case pick operationRCC First Line Manager 1999 to 2004 ·Assigning and organising Warehouse Operatives to carry out required tasks·Monitoring performance ·Answering queries and problem solving from internal sources·Reallocating personnel and equipment as required by work volumes·Inputting goods in information onto warehouse management system·Generally assisting Shift Manager to successfully run an efficient shift and meet the prescribed targets·Liaising with stores and building good relations