Warehouse Operator
Location: Brisbane
Salary: $70,000 - $80,000 (inclusive of superannuation, depending on experience)
Employment type: Full‑time, permanent
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am - 4:00pm
Eligibility: Must have valid Australian work rights
Looking for stable weekday hours, meaningful work, and a warehouse role you can take real pride in?
Join Australia’s Humanitarian Logistics Capability (HLC) and play a hands‑on role in preparing and dispatching life‑saving relief supplies to communities impacted by disasters across the Indo‑Pacific.
This is a Brisbane‑based, full‑time warehouse role offering consistent hours, a supportive team, and work that genuinely makes a difference.
The Opportunity
As a Warehouse Operator, you’ll support the day‑to‑day operations of the HLC warehouse: picking, packing, receiving, dispatching, and maintaining a safe, organised working environment.
You’ll be working with real humanitarian stock, including emergency shelter kits, water and sanitation supplies, and essential relief items that are deployed within hours of natural disasters such as cyclones, floods, and earthquakes.
This is an active, hands‑on role suited to someone who enjoys physical work, values accuracy and safety, and wants to be part of a well‑run, purpose‑driven operation.
Your Role
Working as part of a close‑knit and experienced logistics team, you’ll help ensure the warehouse is always ready to respond when it matters most.
A typical day may include:
- Picking and packing stock for dispatch in line with HLC procedures
- Safely operating forklifts and warehouse equipment to load, unload, and store goods
- Assisting with truck and container loading and unloading, including manual handling
- Using the Warehouse Management System (WMS) to record stock movements accurately
- Applying correct labelling, FIFO rotation, and shelf‑life monitoring
- Supporting cycle counts, stocktakes, and general warehouse tasks
- Maintaining a clean, organised, and safety‑focused warehouse environment
This is a physically active role, undertaken in a safety‑first environment with clear processes, teamwork, and the right equipment to get the job done properly.
About You
You’re reliable, practical, and take pride in doing your job well. You enjoy hands‑on work, value accuracy and safety, and work well as part of a team in a fast‑paced warehouse environment. You’re motivated by being part of something meaningful and understand that the work you do plays a real role in supporting communities during times of crisis.
You will bring:
- Experience working in a warehouse or logistics environment
- Current and valid Australian driver’s licence
- Forklift licence (LF)
- Basic computer literacy (e.g. scanners, tablets, WMS systems)
- Physical fitness and comfort with manual handling tasks
- Legal right to work in Australia
- Ability to obtain and maintain a clear criminal history check (required for secure freight access)
Why Join HLC?
- Stable, weekday hours - no weekends or rotating shifts
- Meaningful, purpose‑driven work with real global impact
- Well‑run warehouse with a strong safety culture
- Supportive, experienced team environment
- Opportunity to build skills in humanitarian logistics
The Program: Humanitarian Logistics Capability (HLC)
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Humanitarian Logistics Capability enables Australia’s rapid humanitarian response to emergencies worldwide.
Based in Brisbane, the HLC warehouse maintains the largest pre‑positioned stockpile of humanitarian relief supplies in the Southern Hemisphere, capable of supporting up to 55,000 people across multiple simultaneous crises.
Tetra Tech International Development is the Implementing Contractor for HLC, working closely with DFAT, Commonwealth response agencies, and humanitarian partners to ensure supplies are ready to deploy at a moment’s notice.
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How to Apply
If you’re ready to support Australia’s humanitarian response and are looking for a stable, rewarding warehouse role, click “Apply for Job” and submit your application by 6 April 2026.
Your application should include:
- A resume
- A short cover letter (or a few paragraphs) outlining your suitability for the role
Why Tetra Tech International Development?
We are a values led organisation committed to flexible working, wellbeing, and creating positive impact. Our culture is grounded in collaboration, trust, diversity, and inclusion. Learn more about our purpose and values here.
Tetra Tech International Development is an equal‑opportunity employer and welcomes applicants of all cultures, genders, abilities, and experiences. We are committed to child safety, safeguarding, and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment.
As a leading development consulting firm, Tetra Tech International Development works with people and communities to solve some of the world's most complex challenges to achieve a positive impact.
Working at Tetra Tech International Development means working within a values led organisation that invests in flexible work environments built on trust, safety and well-being. Through unified systems, flexible and supportive workplaces, we provide the foundations required for our team to enjoy the work they do and deliver value every day. Read more about our culture, purpose and values here.
Tetra Tech International Development is an equal opportunity employer and has a genuine commitment to diversity and inclusion, child safety, safeguarding, and the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. We encourage people living with a disability; First Nations Peoples; and people of all cultures, genders, abilities, and experiences to apply.
Should you require additional support with your application, please email IDEV.HRServices@tetratech.com or phone +61 (08) 8375 4400.
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.
Position Type
Project opportunity
Region
Australia and Indo-Pacific Teams and Clients
Sector
Supply Chain Management (International Development)