Maintenance Manager

Lineage; Heywood; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Maintenance Manager to lead a dedicated team in ensuring the smooth operation of automated cold storage facilities. In this pivotal role, you will oversee maintenance activities, ensuring compliance with safety standards and optimizing operational efficiency. Your leadership will drive the team's performance in delivering high-quality services while contributing to sustainability initiatives. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow within a forward-thinking organization that values innovation and employee development, making a significant impact on logistics solutions that support essential services across the UK.

Benefits

Career Development Opportunities

Employee Engagement Programs

Health and Safety Initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in distribution and warehouse engineering/maintenance management.
• Strong leadership skills with a focus on team development.

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance functions and ensure safety compliance.
• Manage performance of preventative and corrective maintenance.

Skills

Maintenance Management

Electrical Systems

Mechanical Systems

Refrigeration Systems

Safety Compliance

Process Improvement

Education

Degree in Engineering

Management Certification

Tools

Automated Warehouse Equipment

Material Handling Equipment

Job description

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Lineage is the world’s largest and most innovative provider of temperature-controlled logistics solutions with +20,000 colleagues globally.

If you open your fridge freezer, up to 20% of the products you’ll see have passed through a Lineage facility. We support customers who keep our schools and restaurants stocked and supplied as well as working with many of the UK’s leading retailers.

Lineage’s Heywood facility on Hareshill Road delivers cutting-edge automated cold storage with 24/7 operational capabilities. Supporting import/export services, like drayage and customs brokerage, this strategically located site offers value-added supply chain services, like case picking, freight consolidation, retail consolidation and co-packing services.

We are currently looking for a new Maintenance Manager to lead a team of 10 engineers supporting 3 sites. Initial focus will be on Heywood with another 2 smaller sites included at a later stage.

The role:

As the Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the Facilities Engineering and Maintenance function. You will provide direction and operational support of all Automated 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 (Mechanical and electrical)

•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 analyse 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 are looking for:

We are seeking a strong Maintenance leader that can help the team to provide reactive and preventative maintenance on electrical and mechanical equipment. It is essential to be people-oriented and really focus on demonstrating our values and support to all employees.

To thrive in this role, you'll ideally need:

• Previous experience of successful distribution and warehouse engineering/maintenance management and leadership
• 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

What's in it for me?

This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.

Our six values help guide how we behave and define what we hold most important: Safe, Trust, Respect, Innovation, Bold, Servant Leadership. We all play a position that is key to the company’s success. 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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Truck Transportation

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