Supply Chain & Stockpile Manager in Brisbane, QLD-AU, Australia at Tetra Tech

Location: Brisbane
Full-time | 2-year fixed term contract
Must have valid work rights in Australia

• Lead the management of Australia’s largest humanitarian stockpile and drive supply chain excellence in one of the country’s most critical humanitarian programs.
• Champion operational innovation, resilience, and inclusion, ensuring humanitarian supplies reach those in need—rapidly, safely, and efficiently.
• Mentor and develop a high-performing warehouse team, fostering a culture of safety, continuous improvement, and collaboration.

Contribute to a world where people, communities and the planet thrive.

Tetra Tech International Development is a leading development consulting firm working with government, businesses, and NGOs to solve complex development challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. For more information, please visit our website.

The Opportunity

The Humanitarian Logistics Capability (HLC), based in Brisbane, is a cornerstone of Australia’s rapid and coordinated humanitarian action across the Indo-Pacific. As the Supply Chain & Stockpile Manager, you will play a pivotal leadership role in ensuring the HLC’s warehouse and supply chain operations are robust, responsive, and ready for any emergency.

You will manage the end-to-end humanitarian supply chain, oversee the largest prepositioned humanitarian stockpile in the Southern Hemisphere, and ensure that supplies are maintained, mobilised, and delivered efficiently. Your expertise will support strategic planning, technical advice, and operational excellence, aligning logistics operations with Australia’s humanitarian objectives.

This is a unique opportunity to drive systems-level change and operational readiness, ensuring humanitarian supplies reach the right people, in the right way, at the right time.

Your Role

• Lead and develop the HLC warehouse team, fostering a safe, inclusive, and high-performing culture.
• Oversee all aspects of supply chain, warehouse, and logistics operations, ensuring efficient workflows, compliance, and readiness for rapid mobilisation.
• Drive continuous improvement, applying evidence-based practices and adaptive thinking to strengthen operational effectiveness.
• Provide technical and operational advice to DFAT, humanitarian partners, and stakeholders.
• Manage inventory integrity, stock maintenance, and replenishment strategies to maximise shelf life and readiness.
• Coordinate international and domestic freight, customs, quarantine, and biosecurity processes.
• Oversee key systems (Warehouse Management System, Tradex, Stockholm) to maintain cargo tracking, visibility, and compliance.
• Project manage stockpiling and prepositioning activities, collaborating with partners such as the Australian Defence Force.
• Promote a culture of physical and psychological safety, ensuring adherence to all Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) standards.
• Build and maintain relationships with humanitarian partners, supporting operational access and program alignment.

About You

You are a strategic and operational leader with deep experience in humanitarian or commercial supply chain management. You thrive in complex, high-pressure environments and are skilled at building inclusive, resilient systems that drive real impact. You bring a collaborative spirit, a sharp analytical mind, and a commitment to learning and innovation.

You will possess:

• Experience in Logistics, Supply Chain or related discipline,
• Current High Risk Works license for material handling equipment (forklift truck).
• Minimum 5 years’ experience managing humanitarian or commercial warehouse operations; experience with distributed, remote, or international stockpiles preferred.
• Proven leadership of multi-person teams in high-pressure operational environments.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating freight, customs, and biosecurity processes.
• Strong resource management skills, including planning, budgeting, and risk management.
• Experience providing technical logistics and supply chain advice to donors, government agencies, or humanitarian partners would be preferred.
• Proficiency in inventory, cargo tracking, and visibility systems.
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• High degree of personal initiative, resilience, and ability to work effectively in challenging environments.
• Champion and commitment to DFAT’s cross-cutting policies (gender, disability, fraud, anti-corruption, PSEAH, child protection, environmental and social safeguards).
• Ability to travel internationally and domestically as required.
• Physical fitness to operate safely in a warehouse environment.

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How to Apply

If we have sparked your interest and you meet the requirements of the role, click the "Apply for Job" button and submit your application before the closing date—we’d love to have you join our team supporting our humanitarian logistics operations.

Your completed application will include:

• Resume
• Cover letter (not exceeding two pages), outlining your suitability for the position by demonstrating how your qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and personal attributes align with the selection criteria.

Applications for this position close 11:59pm, AEST Tuesday 07 October 2025

Tetra Tech has a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (‘SEAH’), child abuse and exploitation, modern slavery and safeguarding related retaliation, and this zero-tolerance extends to inaction.
Tetra Tech is committed to being a child safe organisation, and to promoting a culture that supports gender equality, and addresses the gendered drivers of violence against women and children. It is committed to fostering a culture where we prevent and respond decisively and appropriately to harm against people, and that all people are treated with dignity and respect, irrespective of country, project, or office where we work. This will require compliance with Tetra Tech’s Safeguarding and other Codes of Conduct and our associated safeguarding policies (Child Protection and Child Safety, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PSEAH) policy and procedure, and Modern Slavery). Any successful applicants will be required to undertake satisfactory referee and criminal record checks prior to being appointed to any position.