Logistics Manager

Reports to: Construction Group Leader / Heathrow Project Execution Leadership

Location: Heathrow - London

Contract Type: Permanent

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 logistics infrastructure, delivery coordination processes, access and storage arrangements, material flow planning, supplier and subcontractor logistics activities, waste and traffic management, site readiness requirements and stakeholder governance processes.

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: