Compliance Coordinator

Lineage Logistics; Heywood; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics provider in Heywood, UK, is seeking a Compliance Coordinator to ensure adherence to Quality, Health, Safety, Security, and Environmental standards. The role involves providing operational support, maintaining food safety systems, assisting with audits, and promoting a strong QHSSE culture. Ideal candidates will have experience in cold storage or QHSSE, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. This is a permanent position with a competitive salary.

Benefits

Opportunity for career development

Free onsite car park

Access to 24/7 employee assistance

Preferential rates for loans and savings

Additional annual leave

Cycle-to-work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in cold-store operations or QHSSE roles.
• Good understanding of HSE laws and cold-store processes.
• Strong communication skills in English and the local language.
• Able to work independently and manage multiple tasks.
• Customer-focused and comfortable in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational QHSSE support.
• Maintain the Food Safety Management System.
• Assist with audits and resolve quality issues.
• Apply safety standards and assist with training.
• Report and track incidents with corrective actions.
• Support compliance with security regulations.
• Ensure compliance with environmental regulations.

Skills

Result and quality focus

Clear communication

Teamwork

Customer mindset

Ability to influence

Awareness of organisational needs

Job description

Overview

At Lineage, we play a vital role in feeding the world. As the world’s largest temperature-controlled logistics company, we are dedicated to innovating supply chains, protecting product integrity, and consistently raising safety and quality standards across our global network. Our QHSSE team is essential in ensuring we uphold our commitments to people, customers, regulators, and the environment. We are looking for a hands-on Compliance Coordinator to help make sure our sites follow all Quality, Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (QHSSE) rules and standards. You will support daily compliance activities, help improve safety and quality, and work closely with different teams to maintain a strong QHSSE culture.

Shift Available: Working Monday – Friday 08:00-16:30. This site is a 24/7 facility, and this role will require some flexibility to work different shift patterns as and when needed.

Salary: Competitive starting salary.

Key Responsibilities

• Operational QHSSE Support
• Maintain the Food Safety Management System and support customer QHSSE requests.
• Assist with internal and external audits and help investigate and resolve quality issues.
• Apply Lineage’s SIS safety standards, support annual safety audits, and assist with safety training and communication.
• Report, investigate, and track incidents, suggesting corrective actions and improvements.
• Carry out basic task risk assessments and support legal risk assessments.
• Support safe execution of engineering projects and Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements.
• Support compliance with security regulations (AEO / ISPS), help manage access control, CCTV and emergency procedures, and assist with security audits.
• Ensure compliance with environmental regulations, permit requirements, and chemical storage / handling processes.

Compliance, Improvement & Collaboration

• Collect, review, and present QHSSE data, providing insights and recommendations to management.
• Stay updated on changing legislation and industry requirements and communicate relevant updates to the team.
• Support regional QHSSE projects, continuous improvement initiatives, and standardisation efforts.
• Work closely with Operations, HR, BD, Procurement and other functions to align QHSSE activities with business needs.
• Support the Regional QHSSE Manager during audits, customer visits, and regulatory inspections.
• Note: This section uses bold text to highlight emphasis where present in the original.

Requirements

• Experience in cold-store operations (temperatures of around -18 degrees) or QHSSE roles.
• Good understanding of HSE laws (local & EU) and cold-store processes.
• Strong communication skills in English and the local language.
• Able to work independently and manage multiple tasks.
• Customer-focused and comfortable in a fast-moving environment.

Key Skills

• Result and quality focus.
• Clear communication.
• Teamwork.
• Customer mindset.
• Ability to influence.
• Awareness of organisational needs.

What’s in it for me?

• A permanent opportunity with a direct employer; we will not employ you through an agency.
• Opportunity to develop a career within an industry leading global company.
• Opportunity to earn an additional day of annual leave each year, up to the maximum of one extra week.
• Free onsite car park.
• Support your emotional well-being with access to a 24/7 employee assistance phone line offering confidential free counselling and advice.
• Preferential rates for loans and savings offered through exclusive access to a credit union.

Why Lineage?

We are a global company with more than 22,000 employees spanning 20 countries and more than 400 locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. At Lineage Logistics, we have a shared purpose; we are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world. This means working at Lineage is not just a job – it’s an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world. As a member of our team, you will be a critical link in the food supply chain. Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organisation, from the warehouse floor to the office. Our team members are passionate about the impact they make every single day.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. At Lineage we also recognise that Ex-Military, veterans, and military families have great experience with transferable skills and core values that can add significant value to our organisation.

Benefits

As a Lineage team member, we aim to provide everything you and your family need to thrive. That’s why we offer competitive rates of pay, paid time off, skills training, and development opportunities to grow a long and fulfilling career with us – plus generous financial rewards when you successfully refer new employees. This is enhanced by recognition schemes (so that your hard work won’t go unnoticed), plus the chance to make your salary go even further with our cycle-to-work scheme and preferential rates for loans and savings courtesy of a leading credit union.

Your everyday wellbeing is also important to us, so we will provide you with all the protective equipment you need to be safe and comfortable at work, and you will have access to a free 24 / 7 employee assistance phone line, which offers confidential counselling and advice. With all of this offered against the backdrop of a fun and social environment in which you will be supported by a team who enjoy helping each other in achieving their goals, we are confident you will excel with us.