Warehouse Team Leader

Description

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 requiredWhat 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 candidatesTraining Provided

Level 2 Food Safety

Level 2 HACCP

Level 2 COSHHBenefits

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 developmentIf 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.

About Cotteswold Dairy

Since 1938, Cotteswold Dairy has flourished from a modest milk round—delivering just 30 gallons a day using a bucket and ladle—into one of the UK’s most respected independent, family-run dairies, rooted in Tewkesbury. Built on the founding values of quality, service, and cleanliness, the business has remained committed to those principles spanning three generations, now under the leadership of Managing Director George Workman.

Today, we process, pack, and deliver over 100 million litres of milk and dairy products each year to doorstep customers and businesses across England and Wales, operating from multiple depots and a modern production site in Tewkesbury.

At our heart lies a strong ethical and environmental commitment. We partner with local farms within a 60-mile radius—many Red Tractor-certified—promoting sustainable farming practices, animal welfare, and minimal environmental impact. We’ve championed eco-friendly initiatives for decades, including returnable glass bottles, electric milk floats, telematics for efficient logistics, and zero waste-to-landfill operations.

More than a business, Cotteswold Dairy is a values-driven community dedicated to delivering wholesome, high-quality dairy products while nurturing people, our communities, and our planet—making us a compelling and meaningful place to build your career

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