Team Lead Logistics

**Team Lead Logistics (m/w/d)**:

- Functional area: Supply Chain/Logistics
- Country: Germany
- City: Essen
- Company name: Atlas Copco Tools Central Europe GmbH
- Date of posting: Oct 1, 2025

Our solutions are a key part of most industries - automotive, electronics, medical research, renewable energy, food production, infrastructure and many more. Working with us means working with the latest technologies and groundbreaking, sustainable innovations.

**Join us on our journey for a better tomorrow.**

**Your role**:
As a Team Lead Logistics (m/w/d), your mission is to ensure the seamless execution and continuous improvement of operational logistics across multiple sites. You will lead and develop a geographically distributed team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and adaptability. Through strategic coordination, performance monitoring, and process optimization, you will drive efficiency and reliability in goods flow, service order management, and cross-functional alignment.

You will report to the Operations Manager ACE Industrial Technique.

Your activities of scope will include
- **Lead & Develop**: Manage a team of 4 employees across Essen and Dingolfing, fostering continuous development and optimizing resource and space utilization.
- **Operational Excellence**: Monitor logistics performance, initiate corrective actions, and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency.
- **Strategic Planning**: Play a key role in logistics planning for the new site (Q4/2025) and coordinate goods flows between Essen, Gromadka (PL), and Dingolfing.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Ensure regular alignment with adjacent departments (Customer Service, Workshop, Procurement) and represent logistics in cross-functional committees.
- **Execution & Support**: Manage service orders in SPIRIT, support goods receipt and dispatch during peak periods, and provide hands-on assistance and technical guidance to the team.
- **Communication & Coordination**: Conduct daily team meetings and act as the main contact for shipping service providers on operational matters.

**To succeed, you will need**:

- Vocational training in logistics (industrial or service sector background)
- Relevant further education is desirable
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on operational experience
- Initial leadership experience in operational team management
- Process-oriented approach to work and self-organization
- Hands-on mentality and decision-making capability
- Experience with SAP (MM module) and a solid affinity for IT is advantageous
- Advanced English language skills

**In return, we offer**:

- **Security.** We offer you a permanent employment contract with an attractive compensation package, which includes a company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits.

**Work-Life Balance.** With us, you benefit from flexible working hours that allow for mobile working. You will receive 30 vacation days as well as additional leave for special occasions, giving you time to rest and spend with your loved ones.

**Development Opportunities.** Your professional and personal growth is important to us. That’s why we provide access to our in-house academy, group-wide leadership programs, unlimited access to all LinkedIn Learning courses, and—as a growing and innovative global market leader—international career opportunities.

**Community.** Knowledge sharing and mutual support are integral parts of our corporate culture. A thorough onboarding process, flat organizational structures, and short decision-making paths are a given. You will quickly integrate and find the support you need.

**Wellbeing.** Your health matters to us. We offer a comprehensive occupational health management program with a wide range of services, as well as an employee assistance program that supports you and your family when needed.

**Autonomy.** You will take on responsible and varied tasks in a future-oriented environment equipped with state-of-the-art communication tools that foster innovation. Your ideas and contributions are valued.

**Sustainability.** We place great importance on environmental and social responsibility, as well as improving quality of life. Your commitment to these values is welcome here.

**Benefits.** Free parking, complimentary hot beverages, and fresh fruit are standard. You’ll also enjoy a wide range of employee benefits, such as car and bike leasing, various health initiatives, and access to our Corporate Benefits program.

**Job location**:
This role requires you to mainly work on-site at our office in Essen, Germany (DE) with the possibility to work remotely according to our mobile office policies. You will be part of a dynamic team and enjoy the benefits of face-to-face collaboration.

**Contact information**:
Talent Acquisition Team: Thorben Suerkemper

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