Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this National Logistics Manager role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against John Holland's job description. Free.
Tailor your resume to this National Logistics Manager role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against John Holland's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the National Logistics Manager posting at John Holland — free, in seconds.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the National Logistics Manager posting at John Holland — free, in seconds.
About the Role
John Holland is seeking a National Logistics Manager to establish and lead a consistent, enterprise-wide logistics capability across projects. This role will improve logistics planning, mobilization, and delivery to enhance productivity, cost performance, and safety. Reporting to the Group Manager Lift & Shift, you will integrate logistics with procurement, plant management, and project delivery for efficient material and asset movement, storage, and tracking. You will support projects from tender through delivery and establish a framework for best practices on smaller projects.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own the national logistics strategy, framework, systems, processes, and capability standards.
- Establish a consistent approach to logistics delivery across projects of varying sizes and complexity.
- Define logistics structures, roles, responsibilities, and strategies for major, mid-sized, and smaller projects.
- Embed end-to-end processes for materials, plant, assets, deliveries, warehousing, heavy vehicles, and site logistics.
- Integrate logistics planning from tender and pre-contract phases through mobilization and project delivery.
- Support key tenders by defining and pricing logistics requirements and developing constructable, cost-effective solutions.
- Implement and standardize logistics systems and governance across Procurement, Commercial, Plant Management, and Scheduling.
- Improve cost, productivity, utilization, material tracking, and site efficiency across projects.
- Ensure logistics practices comply with WHS requirements, HVNL, Chain of Responsibility, CLOCS-A, relevant standards, and client requirements.
- Build and lead a national cohort of logistics professionals, uplift internal capability, and share lessons learned and best practices.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, logistics, or a related discipline.
- Typically 10+ years of progressive, hands-on experience across transport, warehousing, manufacturing, construction, mining, or other complex logistics environments.
- Demonstrated experience leading measurable operational improvement programs across cost, productivity, inventory, logistics efficiency, or asset utilization.
- Success leading large teams, multi-site operations, and cross-functional stakeholders, including influencing through indirect reporting lines.
- Strong commercial acumen, including budget management, cost optimization, contract negotiations, and an understanding of contracts and insurance relevant to logistics management.
- Experience implementing systems, standardized processes, and new technology to solve complex operational challenges.
- Experience delivering logistics outcomes in large-scale operational or project environments with blue-collar workforce engagement.
- Strong knowledge of supply chain and materials management, plant and asset management, and logistics systems and digital tools.
- Lead, Continuous Improvement, or Six Sigma qualifications are desirable.
- CILT Australia membership is highly regarded.
Location
- VIC
- NSW
- QLD
- Interstate travel required
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Salary continuance options
- Salary sacrifice options
- Flexible work arrangements
- Generous leave
- 18 weeks paid parental leave
- Career development opportunities
- Opportunities to work on iconic projects
- Diverse and inclusive culture
- Wellbeing support and benefits
About the Company
- John Holland's purpose is to transform lives with everything they do.
- They know infrastructure is about people - customers, employees, and communities.
- They have deep expertise, proven capability, and a genuine commitment to creating better outcomes.
- With expertise spanning engineering, construction, and operations, they deliver projects and services that keep communities moving.
- They have shaped Australia through iconic projects including rail, roads, bridges, hospitals, and stadiums.
- They also operate buses, trains, and trams.