The Role

You'll be responsible for:

• Supervising daily warehouse and cross-dock operations, ensuring freight moves safely and efficiently through the facility.
• Overseeing freight sorting, staging, loading and dispatch to meet scheduled departure times.
• Leading and supporting a small warehouse team, allocating workloads and managing daily priorities.
• Working alongside the team with forklift operations, loading, unloading and general freight handling as required.
• Managing workflow in a busy environment with frequent truck movements, competing priorities and tight turnaround times.
• Maintaining safe traffic management practices, including the separation of pedestrians, forklifts and heavy vehicles.
• Ensuring freight is handled correctly, with a focus on load security, damage prevention and operational accuracy.
• Maintaining warehouse organisation, housekeeping and workplace safety standards.
• Working closely with the Branch Manager and transport teams to resolve operational issues and improve efficiency.

Hours

Full-time position based at our Gillman warehouse.

Monday to Friday, with rostered working hours scheduled within our operational window of 5:00 AM to 6:00 PM, depending on business requirements.

What You'll Need

• Previous experience as a Warehouse Supervisor, Team Leader or similar operational leadership role.
• Strong experience in transport, freight distribution, cross-dock or high-volume warehouse operations.
• Current LF Forklift Licence with practical forklift operating experience.
• Experience loading and unloading trucks, including linehaul and local distribution vehicles.
• Sound understanding of freight handling, load restraint and safe loading practices.
• Ability to coordinate multiple freight movements and manage competing priorities in a time-sensitive environment.
• Strong awareness of workplace safety, particularly around forklifts, pedestrians and heavy vehicle movements.
• Good organisational, communication and problem-solving skills.
• A practical, hands-on leadership style with the ability to guide and support a small team.
• Reliability, initiative and a strong sense of ownership over daily operations.
• We're looking for someone who understands the pace of a busy freight operation, can think on their feet and knows how to keep freight moving without compromising safety or service.