Logistics Coordinator

Posted:

18/09/2025

Closing Date:

16/10/2025

Job Type:

Permanent - Full Time

Location:

QLD - Lytton

Job Category:

Distribution Centre

We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years. A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together. Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.

Job Description

Your opportunity to join our teamat Lytton

Based at our Lytton distribution centre, you will lead a small team with overall responsibility for the coordination of Transport and Inventory Management processes, ensuring cost-effective freight execution, accurate stock control, and compliant Chep and Export documentation practices.

Key responsibilities:

Transport and Export Coordination:

• Oversee the scheduling, allocation and coordination of freight movements across the state
• Liaise with suppliers, carriers, and internal teams to manage bookings and resolve issues
• Identify routing and cost-saving opportunities through regular freight reviews
• Monitor vendor performance, KPIs, rate cards, fuel costs, and timeslot adherence
• Support contingency plans, including alternative transport and supplier engagement
• Ensure compliance with CoR, safety, and export/import regulations
• Manage POs for compliance and payment, resolving invoice issues, tracking spend and producing variance analysis
• Assist with audits, corrective actions, and transport improvement initiatives
• Execute export documentation and ensure customs/export law and federal transport regulation compliance

Inventory and Chep Controlling:

• Oversee inventory control processes, cycle counts and reconciliation to ensure accuracy
• Oversee investigation of inventory variances (QA holds, rejects, in-transit, aged stock) and implement corrective actions
• Manage manual adjustments, write-offs, and ledger reconciliations
• Generate and present inventory reports, trend analyses, and KPI dashboards
• Manage Chep usage, reconciliation, transactional accuracy and timely credit recovery
• Investigate discrepancies, liaise with carriers and third parties, and maintain accurate asset records

Team Management:

• Lead and mentor direct reports fostering collaboration, KPI achievement, and development
• Drive continuous improvement by analysing inventory and transport data to uncover efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities
• Develop and standardise SOPs for inventory, Chep and export/transport processes
• Generate and present inventory reports, trend analyses, and KPI dashboards.
• Serve as primary liaison for internal (supply chain, planning, production, sales, finance, QA/WHS) and external (customers, suppliers, freight forwarders, customs) stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, export regulations, and safety standards

Key requirements:

• Strong clerical skills with previous experience working in warehousing, logistics and/or transportation
• Superior leadership skills, able to build rapport quickly and effectively to create a highly collaborative working environment
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate cross functionally to build strong relationships and influence key stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Ability to adapt in a dynamic and fast paced business environment

We're looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us; people who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering deliciously good food that's…Always Good