Team Leader - Warehouse

Cotteswold Dairy; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Cotteswold Dairy is seeking a Chilled Warehouse Team Leader in Tewkesbury. This role involves leading and motivating a team, ensuring operational efficiency in the chilled warehouse environment, and maintaining high health and safety standards. The organization offers competitive salary and comprehensive benefits, including a pension scheme and employee discounts.

Benefits

Comprehensive training and development

Pension, holiday entitlement and staff-discounted dairy products

Cycle to work scheme

Refer-a-friend bonus scheme

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a busy warehouse, ideally within food manufacturing or FMCG.
• Ability to work varied start times and thrive under tight deadlines.
• Strong communication and motivation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team through receiving, picking, and returns of chilled products.
• Control stock movements and ensure efficient loading/unloading.
• Maintain cleanliness and compliance with Health & Safety standards.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Health & Safety Knowledge

Fast-Paced Mindset

Team Motivation

Tools

Counterbalance Forklift Licence

Powered Pallet Truck Licence

Job description

About The Role

Chilled Warehouse Team Leader Vacancy

Location: Tewkesbury

Hours: Minimum 37.5 hrs/week, 5 days over 7 on a shift rota (multiple start times from 06:00)

Are you a dynamic warehouse professional with Food Manufacturing or FMCG experience? Ready to thrive in a high-octane, fast-paced environment? Join Cotteswold Dairy – an independent, family-owned dairy established in 1938 – and lead a team of operatives in our Chilled Warehouse, delivering the freshest, finest quality products every day.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead & Motivate: Guide a large team of operatives through receiving, picking and returns of chilled products
• Own the Process: Control stock movements; verify codes against tickets with precision
• Drive Efficiency: Ensure rapid, safe loading/unloading of delivery vehicles
• Maintain Standards: Keep the warehouse spotlessly clean and compliant with Health & Safety
• Cover & Support: Step in for the Warehouse Supervisor as needed
• Build Culture: Foster an inspiring, open-communication team environment

What We’re Looking For

• Warehouse Background: Proven experience in a busy warehouse – ideally within food manufacturing or FMCG
• Fast-Paced Mindset: Thrive under tight deadlines and ever-changing priorities
• Shift Flexibility: Able to work varied start times from 06:00 on a rotating shift pattern
• Licence Ready: Ideally you will own a Current Counterbalance Forklift licence (and able to provide on application) or Powered Pallet Truck (PPT) licence
• Leadership Skills: Strong communicator with high commitment, motivation and a “solutions-first” approach
• Health & Safety Savvy: Sound knowledge of safe working practices and a keen eye for detail

What You’ll Get

• Competitive salary with overtime enhancements above 40 hours
• Comprehensive training and development – build your leadership career
• Pension, holiday entitlement and staff-discounted dairy products
• Be part of a supportive, community-focused team at the heart of sustainable dairy

Training Provided

• Level 2 Food Safety
• Level 2 HACCP
• Level 2 COSHH

About Us

About Cotteswold Dairy

Established in 1938, Cotteswold Dairy is one of the UK’s leading independent family-owned dairies. We support local farmers and communities by delivering the freshest, finest quality products and first-class customer service.

Team Cotteswold

At Cotteswold Dairy we recognise that we will achieve far greater success working as a team, with empathetic people management and valuing each other, our staff and our customers.

The aim of ‘Team Cotteswold’ is to give a disciplined and determined effort to value everyone and everything and, as a consequence, make the Company the first preference for employees and customers alike over the long term.

The Team Cotteswold Purpose

Being at the heart of a responsible and sustainable dairy community.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with opportunities for growth and advancement
• 22 days’ holiday plus bank holiday allowance; additional day after 3 years of service
• Refer-a-friend bonus scheme (up to £500)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted products and delivery options
• Aviva pension scheme (4% employee, 4.5% employer contributions)
• Health and wellbeing support through Simply Health