Logistics Supervisor

Lead logistics operations at the Royal Adelaide Hospital ensuring smooth delivery of supplies and services that support critical patient care.

Downer Group is seeking a proactive and motivated Logistics Supervisor to join our Support Services team at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. This is a vital role ensuring smooth logistics and distribution operations across a fast-paced, high-impact environment.

About the role:

You'll oversee a team responsible for managing inventory, freight, mail, linen, and equipment movement-supporting the hospital's mission to provide outstanding patient care. This is a full-time opportunity working a Monday - Friday, schedule.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supervise day-to-day operations of warehouse, linen store, mailroom, and internal logistics, ensuring smooth and timely service delivery
• Lead, coach, and develop team members, managing performance and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement
• Monitor and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), recommending improvements and corrective actions when needed
• Coordinate with internal departments and external service providers (e.g. couriers), ensuring efficient and professional communication
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, quality assurance, and infection control standards across all logistics activities

About you:
- Previous supervisory experience in logistics, warehousing, or healthcare (preferred but not essential)
- Strong leadership, communication, and coaching skills, with the ability to build team morale and drive performance
- Solid understanding of safe manual handling practices, infection control, and workplace health and safety requirements
- High level of initiative, reliability, and the ability to adapt to changing priorities in a busy environment
- Positive attitude toward team collaboration, quality improvement, and delivering outstanding service to internal stakeholders

About us:

Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. Through trusted relationships and world leading insight we work closely with our customers to design, build and sustain assets, infrastructure and facilities.

Our Facilities & Asset Services business provides end-to-end facilities management and asset lifecycle support services for Australia's critical social and economic infrastructure. Operating across the health, education, government, future energy, power generation, oil and gas and industrial sectors, we work closely with our customers to optimise the reliability, efficiency and whole of life costs of their assets and facilities.

Downer acts as the facility manager at The Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). The RAH is the largest, busiest and most technologically advanced hospital in Australia with 800 single in-patient rooms, including 100 same-day beds and 80,000 same-day and overnight patient admissions per year.

Why work for us?

Working for the Downer Group, means every day you will be enabling our communities to thrive. With a bright future ahead of us, you find purpose here and have the opportunity to directly impact and contribute positively to our future. You'll also find a range of benefits available such as:

• Opportunities for training and development to support your career.
• Internal career opportunities across the Downer Group business.
• Highly competitive employee exclusive discounts and benefits scheme.
• An Employee Assistance Program providing access to professionals to support you (and your family) to achieve your personal or professional goals through wellbeing coaching, counselling, financial advice, legal advice and more.Please note: As a pre-requisite for this role, successful candidates will be required to undertake a pre-employment medical, as well as provide an up-to-date National Police Clearance and Immunisation history.

As an employer who acknowledges and embraces the importance of our people's diverse experiences, talents and cultures, we encourage applications from people from all ages and backgrounds, including Indigenous Australians, to apply.

If you are passionate about what you do and motivated to succeed, apply now