CROW Recycling
JOB TITLE: Warehouse Supervisor
SALARY: Annual salary: £23,000
PENSION: Nest pension scheme
WORKING HOURS: 34.5 hours day times 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 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
The address is: Orchard House, Sparkbrook Street, Hillfields, Coventry CV1 5LB.
DEADLINE: 1 January, 2026
Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide names of referees which Crow will contact at the final stage of the process.