Maintenance Manager

Lineage Logistics; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company in the UK is seeking a Maintenance Manager to oversee its Gloucester and Bristol sites. The successful candidate will manage the Facilities Engineering and Maintenance functions, ensuring safety compliance and operational efficiency. Applicants should have over 5 years' experience in warehouse engineering and a recognized qualification in Mechanical Engineering. This role offers competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and development opportunities in a supportive workplace environment.

Benefits

Competitive rates of pay

Paid time off

Skills training and development opportunities

Cycle-to-work scheme

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of successful distribution and warehouse engineering/maintenance management.
• Experience working with refrigeration systems at an industrial level.
• Competency in maintaining various functional areas of refrigeration, MHE, building maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Facilities Engineering and Maintenance function.
• Manage performance of maintenance work, both preventative and corrective.
• Focus on safety compliance and legal aspects.

Skills

Distribution and warehouse engineering/maintenance management

Leadership skills

Excellent communication in English

Negotiation and presentation skills

Interpersonal relationship management

Education

Recognised qualification in Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering (beneficial)

Job description

At Lineage, helping to feed the world is more than a job – it’s a purpose we live every day. Lineage is the world’s largest and most innovative provider of temperature-controlled logistics solutions.

To support our transformation and growth in Europe, we are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Manager to look after our Gloucester and Bristol sites. Ideal location is Gloucester (Corinium Ave, Barnwood, Gloucester GL4 3BW)

Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday 8am-4.30pm with some weekend and on-call work also necessary.

Annual Salary: Competitive

What you will be doing

As Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the Facilities Engineering and Maintenance function. You will provide direction and operational support for all Warehouse equipment, refrigeration contractor management, material handling equipment maintenance and facilities maintenance activities within their locations.

This includes supporting internal and external stakeholder expectations and contributing toward achieving departmental goals. Emphasis is on delivering high quality goods and services to the organization at the lowest cost in a sustainable and ethical manner.

Some of your key responsibilities:

• Managing the performance of maintenance work, both preventative and corrective.
• Focus on safety compliance and related legal aspects.
• Carrying out and registering mandatory technical inspections.
• To advise and initiate action in your site on the Lineage Europe Maintenance and Engineering strategy in consultation with the Regional Engineering Manager (REM).
• Work closely with the Site Management to ensure timely and correct coordination of the actions/activities to be taken.
• Administering company policies and manage local SOPs.
• Establishing and implementing metrics.
• Work on sustainability projects (reducing CO2 impact of Lineage).
• Review and analyze activities, costs, operations, and forecasted data and champion process improvement.
• Working on site Capex and Opex project under the guidance of the Regional Engineering Manager.

Who we’re looking for

In the context of sites integration, and with our structure in constant evolution, it is essential to be people-oriented and really focus on demonstrating our values and support to all employees.

To be successful in this position, we need you to have:

• Typically have five + years of successful distribution and warehouse engineering/maintenance management and leadership.
• A recognised qualification in Mechanical Engineering. Electrical Engineering beneficial but not essential (NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, ONC/HNC or equivalent).
• Experience working with refrigeration systems at industrial level.
• A business background to include competency in maintaining/engineering the various functional areas of refrigeration, MHE, building maintenance, warehouse automation, IT systems, and supply chain optimization.
• An ability to architect strategy along with leadership skills.
• Excellent active listening, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Competence to build and effectively manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the company.
• Excellent communicating skills in English.

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.

Lineage is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Job reference: INDUK