22 Oct 2026
Closing date TBCAbout the role
Are you a senior operations leader who knows how to bring people together, lead complex operations and deliver strong business results?
DP World is looking for a strategic and results driven Senior Director of Operations s to lead our Melbourne Terminal, ensuring exceptional operational performance, safety, financial outcomes and workforce leadership in a fast-paced, 24/7 environment.
This is a key leadership role for someone who can balance the demands of a complex, high-volume operation with broader commercial objectives, while fostering strong relationships with unions and key industry stakeholders, while creating a culture where people, performance and safety go hand in hand.
Key Accountabilities –
- Provide strategic leadership of terminal operations, ensuring safe reliable and efficient performance across all rail activities.
- Deliver sustainable operational and financial outcomes through effective performance optimisation, resource management, and cost discipline.
- Lead industrial and employee relations, maintaining constructive relationships with the relevant unions and workforce stakeholders to enable meaningful engagement and effective negotiation.
- Develop and empower leaders and teams, fostering a culture of accountability, engagement and a high-performance.
- Strengthen relationships with customers, shipping lines, port authorities, and internal stakeholders to enhance service delivery and commercial outcomes.
- Drive a culture of safety, continuous improvement, and operational excellence throughout the Terminal.
Qualifications, Skills, and Experience required:
- Extensive senior leadership experience in stevedoring, logistics or a similar operational environment, ideally within large-scale, 24/7 operations.
- Demonstrated success leading large and diverse teams, developing leaders, and delivering operational results.
- Strong industrial and employee relation expertise with experience managing a highly unionised workforce and navigating complex workforce matters.
- Proven commercial and financial acumen, including accountability for P&L performance, cost management, and business growth.
- Exceptional stakeholder management with the ability to influence, negotiate and build trusted relationships across a diverse range of internal and external business partners.
- A strategic and practical, people focused leadership style with a strong commitment to safety, people, customers and continuous improvement.
If you are an experienced operational leader looking to make a real impact on people, operations and business performance, we would encourage you to apply.
About DP World
DP World is reshaping the future of global trade to improve lives everywhere. Operating across six continents with a team of over 125,000 employees, we combine global infrastructure and local expertise to deliver seamless supply chain solutions. From Ports and Terminals to Marine Services, Logistics and Technology, we leverage innovation to create better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.
In Asia Pacific, DP World employs over 15,000 people across 22 geographies. We operate 17 ports and terminals, complemented by a comprehensive suite of end-to-end supply chain solutions - to connect the region to the rest of the world.
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