Logistics Manager

Vanderlande continues to deliver a growing portfolio of complex projects across Heathrow, with works taking place across live operational airport environments, baggage areas, landside and airside interfaces, welfare facilities, storage locations, Delivery Marshalling Zones and temporary working sites. The Logistics Manager will provide portfolio-level logistics leadership across all Vanderlande Heathrow projects, ensuring a consistent, controlled and forward-looking logistics strategy is applied from pre-construction through to delivery, commissioning, demobilisation and handover.

The role is responsible for developing and maintaining the Heathrow-wide Vanderlande logistics strategy, ensuring that each project has a suitable project-specific logistics plan, material delivery process, storage forecast, waste strategy, access arrangement and logistics governance structure. This includes oversight of Colnbrook Logistics Centre interfaces, Fulcrum bookings, Delivery Marshalling Zones, airside and landside routes, temporary storage compounds, material movement sequences, supplier and subcontractor logistics arrangements, waste movements, traffic management, dilapidation surveys and stakeholder approvals.

Role Responsibilities The Logistics Manager will act as the central logistics point of coordination for Vanderlande's Heathrow portfolio, supporting Project Managers, Site Managers, Principal Contractor representatives, HSEQ, engineering, supply chain, subcontractors and Heathrow logistics stakeholders. The role will include formal liaison with the Heathrow Logistics Forum and relevant planning groups to ensure Vanderlande has early visibility of future project requirements, airport logistics constraints, shared infrastructure demands, upcoming rule changes and opportunities to align planning across all Heathrow projects.

The role will ensure that logistics risks, constraints and opportunities are identified early, managed consistently and escalated where required so that material availability, site readiness and project execution are protected. The successful candidate will be expected to operate strategically and autonomously, building a standardised approach that supports safe delivery, efficient use of shared Heathrow logistics infrastructure, robust subcontractor control, accurate reporting and continuous improvement.

The role must promote Vanderlande's Stay Safe and Good Quality culture while ensuring that logistics planning remains aligned to CDM requirements, Heathrow processes, project programmes, permit requirements and Vanderlande governance standards. Your responsibilities and activities will include:

• Accountable for establishing, governing and continually improving the Heathrow logistics strategy for all Vanderlande projects
• standardising logistics planning, material control, storage forecasting, Delivery Marshalling Zone management, CLC/Fulcrum processes, delivery lookaheads, waste forecasting, traffic management, demobilisation and reporting. Ensure each project implements a controlled logistics plan proportionate to its size, complexity, contract role and Principal Contractor requirements
• Act as the senior logistics interface with Heathrow logistics stakeholders, including active liaison with the Heathrow Logistics Forum, project teams, subcontractors, suppliers and third-party logistics providers
• Ensure current and future project logistics requirements are identified early, agreed with the relevant stakeholders and embedded into project logistics plans, permit packs, space requests, delivery programmes and wider Heathrow logistics planning
• Provide clear direction to ensure shared Heathrow logistics infrastructure is used efficiently and without avoidable disruption to…