Despatch & Logistics Manager

Nayler Executive; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car or car allowance

Superannuation

Job summary

Nayler Executive in Australia is seeking an experienced Transport & Logistics Manager to lead the two-group operations, overseeing transport, distribution and logistics to meet next-day delivery demands within Queensland and interstate routes.

The role involves hands-on leadership of Load Planning, Despatch, Inventory control and a team of 10+ staff, with a focus on safety, cost control and customer service. Salary is $110,000–$115,000 plus car or car allowance and super.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in transport and logistics management.
• Experience with linehaul and site deliveries.
• Strong leadership, communication, and planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead transport, distribution and logistics to deliver orders across QLD and interstate.
• Manage a team of 10+ personnel including dispatch, load planning and drivers.
• Ensure safety, cost efficiency, and on-time delivery aligned with COR & NHVR.

Job description

$110 - 115K + Car or Car Allowance + Super NEG

Join a well-established Australian manufacturing Company that provide a range of building products and solutions to their customers throughout Australia. The Company runs a medium-sized operation with often short production cycles and highly variable delivery locations. In this high-energy role, you will support two entities within the group, navigating a dynamic environment driven by made-to-order production and often next-day delivery demands.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the leadership and efficient management of transport (mix of linehaul and site deliveries using crane trucks), distribution, and logistics whilst ensuring a high-level customer service focus. This is a key position in the Company as you will be \"hands on\" and involved in driving the day-to-day operational allocation and scheduling, coordination, configuring, and monitoring of all freight movements to a customer base primarily throughout QLD with some Interstate. You will be required to manage the efficiencies within the operation to ensure a safe, cost-effective, fast, and reliable delivery service of manufactured products to the market whilst ensuring compliance with company policies, risk management, Chain of Responsibility (COR) & NHVR requirements.

This is a busy \"hands on\" role where you will oversee a team of 10+ personnel involved in Load Planning & Delivery Scheduling, Despatch, Inventory control, Loaders/Forklift Operators & Heavy Vehicle Drivers. You will oversee and ensure that all deliveries & loads are compliant and meet standards including all safety and regulatory requirements, cost control of all fleet (Company and External) including subcontractors, fleet utilization, fleet maintenance and risk management, training and development of your team - ultimately to drive performance outcomes and focus on achieving load optimization, DIFOT, safety, continual improvement of processes and the best management of the company’s finite resources.

The ideal candidate will have a background as a: Transport Manager, Despatch & Transport Manager or Freight & Logistics Manager with a proven track record of success in managing general warehouse, despatch and logistics. You may have worked for a Building Products, Engineering or Industrial manufacturer and supplier, where the delivery of mixed freight requires a fast turnaround to your customer base. You will have managed your own Fleet and Team of Drivers, Subcontract Transport personnel and Despatch department (liaison with Customer service, sales, production teams). With an excellent knowledge of transport logistics, freight, and delivery services, you will demonstrate: strong proactive leadership and management skills, excellent communication, relationship building, and interpersonal skills, ability to make informed commercial decisions and solve operational issues quickly, excellent planning, time management and organizational skills, be IT literate, customer focused, resilient, calm, committed and outcome oriented. Salary commensurate with experience