Automation Warehouse Ops Manager — Start-Up Lead

Toyota Automated Logistics; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Toyota Automated Logistics in Western Sydney, NSW, seeks a seasoned Maintenance & Operations Manager to establish and run one of Australia’s most advanced automated distribution facilities. You will build a maintenance and operations team from the ground up and drive performance for a successful launch and long-term operation of a highly automated warehouse.

Join a team that leverages industry-leading material handling technology, focuses on uptime, safety, and continuous improvement, and

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience within industrial, manufacturing, logistics, mining, or highly automated operational environments.
• Demonstrated experience establishing, commissioning, or scaling a new service operation, warehouse, or industrial facility.
• Strong maintenance management expertise, including CMMS platforms, reliability strategies, and asset lifecycle management.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams while balancing safety, customer outcomes, uptime, and cost performance.
• Relevant trade, engineering, technical, or business qualification.
• Familiar with continuous improvement methodologies such as TPS, Lean Manufacturing, and Six Sigma.

Responsibilities

• Establish, recruit, onboard, and develop a high-performing maintenance and operations team for a major greenfield automated logistics site.
• Lead the successful transition from project delivery to operational service, ensuring site readiness before go-live.
• Drive system performance through achievement of KPIs across uptime, OEE, reliability, safety, and customer satisfaction.
• Develop and continuously improve maintenance strategies, asset management frameworks, and spare parts processes.
• Act as the primary customer contact for operational performance, service delivery, escalations, and incident management.
• Utilise data, CMMS systems, and performance analytics to optimise maintenance effectiveness and equipment reliability.

Skills

Leadership

Site startup

Maintenance management

Team leadership

TPS / Lean / Six Sigma

Safety culture

Education

Technical/engineering qualification

Job description

Toyota Automated Logistics in Western Sydney, NSW, seeks a seasoned Maintenance & Operations Manager to establish and run one of Australia’s most advanced automated distribution facilities. You will build a maintenance and operations team from the ground up and drive performance for a successful launch and long-term operation of a highly automated warehouse.

Join a team that leverages industry-leading material handling technology, focuses on uptime, safety, and continuous improvement, and