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Operations manager freight transport

Roxby Downs
beBeeTransport
Posted: 24 August
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Logistics Operations Specialist

Job Summary:

The Logistics Operations Specialist plays a pivotal role in optimizing freight and transport operations across the business. This position focuses on driving efficiency improvements in fleet planning, scheduling, and overall transport usage to support cost-effective and reliable logistics performance.

This specialist collaborates closely with field teams and stakeholders to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with operational needs, emphasizing practical implementation of logistics enhancements.

Key Responsibilities:

* Support efficient, safe, and competitive management of end-to-end materials transport in line with legislation and company's HSSE requirements.

  • * Ensure optimization of heavy vehicle usage across the business with a lean focus.
    * Support review and analysis of monthly transport invoices received.
    * Track transport budget spend and assist in preparing operating budget proposals.
    * Identify opportunities for process improvement, waste removal, and cost reduction.
    * Implement CI initiatives to reduce manual activities and automate processes and workflows.
    * Provide technical data advisory support at pre-award of contract.
    * Optimize in-housing of integrated planning regarding delivery of materials by coordinating contractors and end-users, and maximizing resource utilization.
    * Timely identify business (wells, projects, operations) requirements for transport needs for heavy vehicles.
    * Support company material movements KPIs and lead improvement initiatives.
    * Provide assurance of transport activities.

    Requirements:

    Essential Skills and Qualifications:

    * Knowledge of freight forwarding, customs, and road transport.
    * Proven experience optimizing coordination of logistics and integrated scheduling activities.
    * Proven stakeholder management skills, internal and external.
    * Commercial mindset for performance management, including utilization.
    * Safety leadership.
    * Understanding of regulations and standards applicable to end-to-end material movements.
    * Ability to learn various supply chain, planning, and scheduling software, including SAP Blueprint, mInventory, and 3rd-party supply chain software.

    Working Arrangements:

    * Monday-Friday, 8-hour working arrangement.

    Additional Information:

    Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

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