accent logo

Vacancy Production Team Leader

(M/F/X)
Lokeren , East Flanders
3100,00 - 3500,00 / month
Fix job
Full-time
22/04/2026
545979
Logistics & Distribution
Logistics manager

3 reasons to choose this job

1
Chance for further development
2
Job with a lot of variety
3
Strong onboarding

Must-haves for this job

For this position, we are looking for a strong leader with experience in logistics or production.

We require:

  • Experience in people management: You have strong people management experience, preferably in a logistics/operational work environment, which is essential.
  • Language proficiency: You are Dutch-speaking. Knowledge of French is an asset.
  • Organizational skills: Flexibility and resilience are essential.
  • Communication skills: Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders, both verbally and in writing.
  • Leadership and assertiveness: A team player who can proactively lead and make decisions.
  • Independence: Work autonomously and take initiatives to continuously improve processes.
  • IT skills: Good knowledge of Microsoft Office; experience with SAP is an asset.

Salary and extra-legal benefits

We offer you an attractive employment package:

  • Contract: We offer you a full-time permanent contract of 37 hours per week, over 5 nights per week in a 6-day work schedule from Sunday night to Friday night.
  • Work schedule: You work according to a variable schedule within the time frame between 8:30 PM and 10:00 AM with an average of 7 hours and 24 minutes per night (excluding breaks), which is communicated no later than 7 calendar days in advance.
  • Salary: €2,500 – €3,500 per month.
  • Additional benefits: We offer meal vouchers (€8 per worked day), hospitalization insurance, eco vouchers, sector bonuses, a contribution for private transportation, and 22 vacation days per year. Additionally, you receive a night shift bonus of 20% for all work performed between 8:00 PM and 6:00 AM.
  • Location: You work in our largest and newest distribution site in Lokeren.
  • Development: You get the chance to participate in a leadership program to further develop your leadership skills.

Vacation days

You work in a full-time schedule and are entitled to 22 vacation days per year. These can be freely determined in consultation with the team.

Lead an enthusiastic team as a Team Lead at the distribution site in Lokeren.

As Teamleader, you ensure optimal resource management and guarantee quality standards at the production level.

  • You coach the team: support, guide, motivate, provide feedback, develop competencies, monitor progress...
  • You give them clear instructions and closely monitor productivity.
  • You are also responsible for a good onboarding and training of new employees, temporary workers, and students.
  • You monitor attendance and absences and ensure an optimal distribution of tasks and organization of work depending on vacations, illness, workload, and priorities.
  • You resolve problems by making the right decisions and systematically communicate about this with your fellow team leaders and the management team where necessary and useful.
  • You ensure an optimal progress of the logistical process: adjusting machines, performing maintenance work, engaging the technical department for complex malfunctions...
  • You are a contact person for the staffing agencies and temporary workers: planning, processing requests, monitoring goals in collaboration with the site manager and the night supervisor.
  • You guarantee the quality of the logistical flow: preparing reports, formulating improvements, and adhering to the SAP flow.
  • You ensure that rules and procedures regarding safety standards, HR, and quality are followed.

Our client is the largest press distributor in Belgium. Already from the start in 1885 as a national press distributor, it has been the market leader. Today, it serves more than 5,300 sales outlets in Belgium. The company distributes daily more than 700,000 magazines and 550,000 newspapers, of which 325 different magazine titles and 175 newspaper titles.

Diversity and inclusion are important to Accent. Whoever, whatever or however you are or whatever you stand for, it's your talents that make the difference.

How applying via Accent works

3 simple steps to your new job

1. Show your interest

Click on “Apply now” and leave your name, email address and phone number.

2. We will contact you

An Accent expert from your field will contact you. We’ll share all the necessary information and answer your questions. Not available right away? Then we’ll send you a message.

3. Time for a personal introduction

We invite you for a conversation and take the time to listen to who you are and what you’re looking for. Together, we’ll find a job that suits you. You tell us what matters to you, and we’ll take care of the rest. Looking for a new job? With Accent, it’s easier than you think.

And let us do the heavy lifting.

Fill in your details

So we can contact you about this job.

loading
Person in the workplace