Senior Manager Warehouse Operations

Fortescue Metals Group; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 240,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortescue Metals Group is seeking a Senior Manager, Warehouse Operations to lead an integrated, safe, and efficient warehouse function across Pilbara sites and Perth. You will shape strategy and drive service excellence while enabling availability of parts and materials.

This role spans multi-site leadership, safety culture, continuous improvement, and transformation towards centralised warehousing and decarbonised supply chains.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in warehouse operations and logistics leadership.
• Experience leading multi-site teams across mining or heavy industry.
• Strong understanding of inventory control and parts availability.
• Proven ability to drive safety and standardised processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a dispersed warehouse workforce across Pilbara operations.
• Provide safety leadership and ensure critical controls.
• Oversee end-to-end warehouse operations for parts and materials.
• Drive inventory accuracy and on-time service.
• Lead continuous improvement to boost productivity.
• Use data and root-cause analysis to solve issues.
• Partner with Maintenance, Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics.
• Support centralised, sustainable warehousing transformation.

Skills

Warehouse leadership

Change management

Data-driven decisions

Safety leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Supply chain qualification

Tools

WMS systems

ERP familiarity

Job description

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Work Location: Hybrid - Pilbara Operations and Perth.

Roster: 4D3R FIFO ex Perth

As Fortescue works towards a more sustainable future and decarbonises its iron ore operations, we’re seeking a strategic leader to drive transformative change. As Senior Manager, Warehouse Operations, you’ll shape an integrated, efficient and customer-focused operation spanning our sites.

Lead the people, operations and transformation of warehouse services across Fortescue's Pilbara operations. As Senior Manager Warehouse Operations, you will play a critical leadership role in ensuring the safe, efficient and reliable delivery of warehouse services across multiple sites, supporting the availability of essential parts and materials that keep our mining operations performing at their best.

This is an opportunity to influence the future of warehousing and logistics across a complex, geographically dispersed operating environment. You will lead and develop a multi-layered workforce, strengthen operational performance and champion a culture of safety, accountability and continuous improvement. Working closely with Maintenance, Operations, Supply Chain and Logistics teams, you will drive service excellence while supporting Fortescue's transition towards a more integrated, centralised and sustainable warehousing model. Combining strategic leadership with hands‑on operational understanding, this role offers the opportunity to deliver meaningful improvements in efficiency, capability and customer outcomes across the Pilbara.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a geographically dispersed warehouse workforce across multiple Pilbara operations, building strong leadership capability, accountability and succession pathways.
• Provide visible safety leadership across all warehouse activities, ensuring compliance with critical controls, operational procedures and safe work practices.
• Oversee end-to-end warehouse operations, ensuring the safe and efficient receipt, storage, handling and dispatch of parts and materials to meet operational requirements.
• Drive high standards of inventory accuracy, parts availability and on‑time service delivery, minimising operational delays and improving customer satisfaction.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimise warehouse productivity, streamline workflows, reduce waste and strengthen operational efficiency.
• Utilise operational data, performance measures and root‑cause analysis to identify bottlenecks, resolve recurring issues and deliver sustainable improvements.
• Build strong partnerships with Maintenance, Operations, Supply Chain, Planning and Logistics teams to align warehouse services with operational priorities and customer requirements.
• Support strategic transformation initiatives, including the transition towards centralised warehousing and logistics, adoption of new technologies and decarbonisation of supply chain operations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Extensive experience in warehouse operations, materials management, logistics or supply chain leadership within mining, resources, heavy industry or similarly complex operational environments.
• Demonstrated success leading large, geographically dispersed or multi‑site operational teams, including developing frontline leaders and building high‑performing workplace cultures.
• Strong understanding of warehouse management practices, inventory control, materials handling, parts availability and operational service delivery.
• Proven experience implementing safety management practices and critical controls across warehouse operations, including mobile equipment, loading and unloading, dangerous goods and manual handling activities.
• Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence through process improvement, standardisation, performance monitoring and data‑driven decision‑making.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and customer service capability, with experience collaborating across Maintenance, Operations, Supply Chain and Logistics functions.
• Experience leading operational change, technology adoption or warehouse transformation initiatives, with exposure to centralised logistics or integrated supply chain models highly regarded.
• Relevant tertiary or vocational qualification in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business, Operations Management or a related discipline is desirable, supported by strong commercial awareness and leadership capability.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry‑leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Established in Western Australia in 2003, Fortescue is a global green technology, energy and metals company, recognised for its culture, innovation and industry leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives. As we move towards a more sustainable future and work towards decarbonising our iron ore mining operations, we're seeking passionate, driven individuals who are eager to contribute to our Real Zero mission and help shape the future.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. Fortescue has received the Silver Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) accreditation. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.