Lead Transport & Admin Operations — Perishables

Australian Country Choice; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounted Beef Sales

Uniform

Short Term Incentive Bonus

Onsite Parking

Onsite Health & Physio centre

Job summary

Australian Country Choice in Cannon Hill invites an experienced Transport and Admin Manager to lead domestic and export transport scheduling, customer service, and shipment administration. You will supervise a small team, ensure bookings, loading, and on-time dispatch while keeping customers informed.

This is a visible, hands-on leadership role for someone who understands transport operations and builds strong customer relationships.

Qualifications

• Five+ years in transport, logistics or distribution operations.
• People leadership in a customer-facing environment.
• Strong knowledge of domestic road freight, exports, and booking processes.
• Familiarity with export compliance for perishables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Own scheduling and slot performance for domestic trucks and export containers.
• Be the main transport contact for customers and export stakeholders.
• Proactively flag load or timeslot risks and drive resolution.
• Coordinate with cold store ops on stock, labour, loading, docks.
• Manage container bookings, cut-offs, shipping documents and compliance.
• Review transporter performance, costs, DIFOT, slot adherence, claims.
• Lead and develop six direct reports with clear service standards.
• Support HACCP, safety, biosecurity, animal welfare and audits.
• Identify improvements to service, efficiency, safety, waste reduction.

Skills

Transport leadership

Schedule management

Customer service

Stakeholder management

Data interpretation

Tools

WMS

TMS

Job description

Australian Country Choice in Cannon Hill invites an experienced Transport and Admin Manager to lead domestic and export transport scheduling, customer service, and shipment administration. You will supervise a small team, ensure bookings, loading, and on-time dispatch while keeping customers informed.

This is a visible, hands-on leadership role for someone who understands transport operations and builds strong customer relationships.