Chilled Warehouse Team Leader
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Hours: Minimum of 37.5 hours per week, 5 days over 7 on a rotating shift pattern (various start times from 06:00)
Cotteswold Dairy, one of the UK’s leading independent family-owned dairies, is seeking an experienced and motivated Chilled Warehouse Team Leader to join our busy warehouse and distribution operation in Tewkesbury. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic warehouse professional with food manufacturing, FMCG, or chilled logistics experience to lead a team in a fast-paced, temperature-controlled environment.
The Role – Chilled Warehouse Team Leader
As a Chilled Warehouse Team Leader, you will oversee daily operations in our chilled warehouse, ensuring accurate receiving, picking, packing, and dispatch of chilled dairy products. You will lead and motivate a team of warehouse operatives, maintaining high standards of efficiency, health and safety, and product quality. This hands-on role involves coordinating stock movements, managing manual handling tasks, and meeting tight deadlines in a fast-moving logistics and distribution setting.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, supervise, and motivate warehouse operatives to achieve operational targets
- Manage stock movements, ensuring product codes match picking tickets
- Oversee safe and efficient loading and unloading of delivery vehicles
- Ensure safe manual handling procedures are followed at all times
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organised chilled warehouse environment
- Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and food hygiene standards
- Provide training, coaching, and support to team members
- Cover for the Warehouse Supervisor as required
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience in a busy warehouse environment – ideally in food manufacturing, FMCG, chilled distribution, or logistics
- Strong leadership and communication skills with a solutions-focused approach
- Ability to thrive under pressure and adapt to changing priorities
- Flexibility to work different shifts, including early starts from 06:00
- Knowledge of safe working practices and strong attention to detail
- Ideally a current Counterbalance Forklift Licence or Powered Pallet Truck (PPT) licence – training available for suitable candidates
Training Provided
- Level 2 Food Safety
- Level 2 HACCP
- Level 2 COSHH
Benefits
- Competitive salary with overtime enhancements after 40 hours
- 22 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, increasing 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
- Opportunities for career progression and leadership development
If you’re a proactive and experienced warehouse professional looking to take the next step in your career as a Chilled Warehouse Team Leader in a respected logistics and distribution environment, we’d love to hear from you.