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About the Role
Lead the establishment and ongoing operation of one of Australia's most advanced automated distribution facilities. This role offers a unique opportunity to build a maintenance and operations team from the ground up, drive system performance, and ensure the successful launch and long-term operation of a highly automated warehouse.
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.
- Foster a strong safety-first culture while leading continuous improvement initiatives across people, processes, and technology.
Requirements
- 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, combined with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Familiar with continuous improvement methodologies such as the Toyota Production System (TPS) or similar operational frameworks, including Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other operational excellence practices, with the ability to drive process optimisation, improve efficiency, and support operational performance.
Skills
- CMMS platforms
- Reliability strategies
- Asset lifecycle management
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder management
- Continuous improvement methodologies
- Toyota Production System (TPS)
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Operational excellence practices
Location
- Western Sydney, NSW
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Leadership experience
Education Level
- Trade qualification
- Engineering qualification
- Technical qualification
- Business qualification
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary package
Benefits
- Career progression pathways into senior service management, regional leadership, and international opportunities.
- Ongoing technical, leadership, and professional development programs.
About the Company
- At Toyota Automated Logistics, you actively shape the future of intelligent intralogistics.
- As part of Toyota Industries Corporation (TICO), we are a global partner for integrated warehouse automation solutions.
- Founded in April 2026, we bring together the strengths of Bastian Solutions, viastore, and Vanderlande's warehousing business under one unified brand.
- Together, we develop scalable automation systems, intelligent software, and end-to-end services across the entire lifecycle for customers around the world.
- Our ambition is clear: to set industry benchmarks and actively shape the future of intralogistics.
Equal Opportunity
- At Toyota Automated Logistics, we believe diversity makes us stronger.
- We are committed to equal opportunities and an inclusive work environment, and base our hiring decisions on qualifications, potential, and motivation.
- Support or adjustments during the application process are available upon request.