Maintenance Manager in Peterborough

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 Peterborough and Wisbech sites.

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 managing 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 optimisation.
• 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.

Why Lineage?

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 energising 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 are a global company with more than 22,000 employees spanning 20 countries and more than 400 locations across North America, Europe, Asia‑Pacific, and South America. At Lineage Logistics, we have a shared purpose; we are transforming the food supply chain to eliminate waste and help feed the world. This means working at Lineage is not just a job – it’s an opportunity to innovate and put your mark on how food moves from the farm to dinner tables around the world. As a member of our team, you will be a critical link in the food supply chain. Our shared purpose drives everything we do in all parts of our organisation, from the warehouse floor to the office. Our team members are passionate about the impact they make every single day.

We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from persons regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. At Lineage we also recognise that Ex‑Military, veterans, and military families have great experience with transferable skills and core values that can add significant value to our organisation. 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.

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.