Senior Operations Manager — Cold-Chain & Site Leadership

Lineage Logistics; Heywood; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free onsite parking

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Credit union access

Job summary

Lineage Logistics in Heywood seeks an Operations Manager to lead a flagship automated cold storage site and drive operational excellence across 24/7 facilities. You will shape performance, safety, and people leadership while coordinating day-to-day activities on a Monday–Friday day shift with flexibility for broader coverage.

The role demands senior operational experience, budget awareness, and a track record of delivering efficiency gains in regulated, temperature-controlled environments.

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience within a fast-paced warehousing, logistics, distribution, or supply chain environment.
• Proven experience leading large-scale, multi-shift operations through teams of managers and supervisors, with accountability for operational performance across multiple shift patterns.
• Strong track record of deputising for senior site leadership and making critical operational decisions in a complex logistics environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior operational leadership across the Heywood site, ensuring the safe, compliant, and efficient delivery of all warehouse activities whilst achieving agreed service, productivity, quality, and financial targets.
• Act as the deputy to the General Manager, assuming full site leadership responsibility in their absence and providing strategic direction across all operational functions.
• Lead and oversee multi-shift warehouse operations, managing multiple operational teams and shift patterns to ensure consistent performance, operational continuity, and customer satisfaction 24/7.
• Champion a world-class safety, food safety, and compliance culture, ensuring full adherence to Health & Safety legislation, food hygiene standards, HACCP requirements, and all associated regulatory obligations.
• Drive operational excellence through the development and execution of site-wide continuous improvement initiatives, delivering measurable improvements in productivity, cost control, efficiency, quality, and service performance.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of operational managers and supervisors, creating a high-performance culture focused on accountability, engagement, succession planning, and talent development.

Skills

Leadership

Multi-shift management

WMS

Budget management

Tools

WMS

Job description

Lineage Logistics in Heywood seeks an Operations Manager to lead a flagship automated cold storage site and drive operational excellence across 24/7 facilities. You will shape performance, safety, and people leadership while coordinating day-to-day activities on a Monday–Friday day shift with flexibility for broader coverage.

The role demands senior operational experience, budget awareness, and a track record of delivering efficiency gains in regulated, temperature-controlled environments.