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Key position driving fleet utilisation and service delivery in a fast-paced environment
About the Role
Reporting directly to the Operations Manager, you will play a pivotal role in planning, routing, and allocating daily runs across a busy fleet. You will oversee high-volume, multi-drop operations and time-critical consignments, ensuring seamless coordination between drivers, operations teams, and customers. With a focus on route optimisation and vehicle capacity, you will ensure our service standards consistently achieve high performance and DIFOT metrics.
Key Responsibilities
- Independently plan and allocate a minimum of 150+ consignments daily across a fleet of 20+ vehicles.
- Optimise multi-drop delivery routes and run sheets across Sydney metro and regional NSW to maximise fleet utilisation.
- Manage high-priority, time-critical, and specialist freight with strict delivery windows and time slots.
- Lead daily driver communication—providing clear run instructions, managing expectations, and ensuring accountability to run schedules.
- Coordinate pickups and deliveries while effectively balancing customer commitments, fatigue/driver hours, vehicle capacities, and operational efficiency.
- Actively resolve day-to-day operational challenges, including traffic delays, breakdowns, and urgent bookings, with agile problem-solving.
- Monitor delivery performance metrics, with a strong focus on DIFOT, missed pickups, and late deliveries.
- Accurately review consignment details, special handling instructions, and vehicle capacities using modern Transport Management Systems (TMS).
Required Skills & Experience:
To be successful in this role, you will bring proven transport allocation experience, comprehensive Sydney geography knowledge, and exceptional problem-solving abilities.
- Proven allocation experience in transport, logistics, freight distribution, or a similar high-volume environment.
- Demonstrated ability managing multi-drop delivery planning and specialist/time-critical freight.
- Excellent working knowledge of Sydney metro suburbs, traffic flow, and transit routes (regional NSW experience advantageous).
- Confident driver management and stakeholder liaison skills, with a clear, direct communication style.
- Strong systems competency, comfortable using modern TMS, mapping/routing software, and MS Office.
- High attention to detail with run sheets, consignment paperwork, and operational compliance.
- Proactive mindset—able to identify potential bottlenecks before they arise and thrive in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
Next Steps:
If you are ready to take full ownership of fleet allocation in a high-performing logistics operation, please select “Apply Now”.
At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.
At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.