Vanderlande

Team Leader

Vanderlande  •  London, GB (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Job Title

Team Leader

The company

Vanderlande is the market leader in efficient logistics process automation within the airports and parcel sector. In addition, we are a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses.

Vanderlande has a strong strategic partnership with Heathrow Airport. Heathrow, with more than 80 million passengers a year, is the most active airport in Europe having the most connections to other airports. All these passengers expect their luggage to reach the same destination. That’s where Vanderlande comes in as a strategic partner with full responsibility of the performance and maintenance of Heathrow’s baggage handling systems.

Your role

Working within London Heathrow Airport, the Team Leader will be responsible for providing daily leadership and continuous guidance to your team, ensuring Health and Safety is paramount during all operational and maintenance activities along with interaction with internal and external customers. You will be performing the following tasks:

  • Ensuring that Safety is always paramount during all Operational and Maintenance activities.
  • Conducting quality auditing of work, and productivity checks and taking appropriate action if/when required
  • Constantly displays the desire to learn and help others in their progression

Additional responsibilities:

Day Shift.

  • Issue PPM workorders out to shifts, close off all PCM and CM’s
  • Attend system outages, to assist technicians in resolving the faults before escalating to LLCST.
  • Keep daily report up-to date with system issues and handovers, including raising work orders for the night shift.
  • Stepping in to cover Duty Engineers in their absence.
  • Attending H&S meetings.

Night shift

  • Plan the shift PPM maintenance / project work including handovers from the day shift.
  • PPM work orders to be completed and filled out to the required standard.
  • Complete and send out nightly report e-mail of works completed, including handovers, project work, system issues etc.

What we expect from you

As a Service Technician you make an important contribution to customer satisfaction, whereby the continuity of the customer process is central. You therefore have an enthusiastic and proactive attitude and are flexible. We expect the following of you:

  • Working in Airports and/or Conveyor Systems in a Supervisory capacity preferred
  • Multi skilled Electro/Mech, minimum at senior tech level, preferred supervisory experience
  • Qualifications, Minimum NVQ 3 Electro/Mech, preferred HNC or equivalent.

What we see as a nice to have:

  • 18th Edition (BS 7671 / wiring regs)
  • You have gained experience within an FMCG manufacturing or automated environment
  • Experience in training/coaching

What we offer:

  • Performance related pay
  • 288 Hours Holiday
  • Aviva Medical Cover & Pension
  • YuLife - Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
  • Achievers – Employee social recognition and rewards platform.
  • A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
Vanderlande

About Vanderlande

Vanderlande is a market-leading, global partner for future-proof logistic process automation in the warehousing, airports and parcel sectors. Its extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.

The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements.

Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 11,000 employees and a turnover of 2.3 billion euros.

Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO) acquired Vanderlande in 2017 to cement its global leading position within material handling. It aims to achieve this by increasing its presence in all integrated and automated projects, and capitalising on the synergies between the organisations and the added value they offer to the market.

TICO therefore launched the Toyota Automated Logistics Group (TALG), which consists of Toyota L&F, Bastian Solutions, Vanderlande and viastore. TALG is a global partner for integrated logistic process automation, with its group companies collaborating under the guiding principle: for every challenge, a reliable solution.

In May 2025, Vanderlande completed the acquisition of Siemens Logistics' operations outside the USA and in doing so welcomed more than 2,000 new employees. The acquisition supports the company’s strategic ambition to accelerate its growth in automated logistics, particularly strengthening its capacity to deliver baggage, cargo and digital airport solutions.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Veghel, NL
Year Founded
1949
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