Your new company

This is a rare opportunity for an experienced transport, fleet, safety or procurement leader to take ownership of a nationally important student transport function. We are seeking a commercially astute and safety-focused leader with experience across bus, coach, passenger transport, and school transport.
You may currently be working in a bus operator, public transport provider, government transport program, or education transport environment. What matters most is your ability to bring structure, governance, safety, commercial discipline and data-led decision-making to a complex multi-site transport environment.

Your new role
Reporting to the ANZ Director of Operations, you will lead the national uplift of fleet and student transport operations across Australia. This role has a transparent transformation mandate: to build a more consistent, safe, compliant, cost-effective and data-driven transport operating model. You will work across multiple sites and stakeholders, strengthening standards, systems, supplier performance, fleet lifecycle, safety programs and reporting. This is a hands-on strategic role where your work will directly support the safe transport of students and create a scalable framework for future growth.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading national fleet and student transport strategy.
- Establishing consistent standards, accountabilities and escalation pathways.
- Managing fleet lifecycle planning, including procurement, leasing, maintenance, replacement and disposal.
- Strengthening compliance across HVNL, Chain of Responsibility, WHS and duty of care obligations.
- Driving safety programs covering drivers, volunteers, fatigue, licensing, vehicle inspections, incidents and corrective actions.
- Managing suppliers, contracts,



service performance and value for money.
- Owning transport systems, telematics, fleet data and reporting.
- Turning large volumes of data into practical insights that improve safety, cost, utilisation and risk.
- Supporting a well-governed driver and volunteer transport model.
- Influencing broader fleet and transport frameworks beyond Australia.

What you'll need to succeed

- Bus, coach, public transport or passenger transport operations.
- School, student, community or assisted transport.
- Fleet management, fleet assets or heavy vehicle operations.
- Transport safety, WHS, compliance or Chain of Responsibility.
- Procurement, contracts, supplier management or fleet lifecycle planning.
- Scheduling, network planning, telematics, transport systems or operational analytics.

You will ideally have:

- Strong understanding of bus transport safety and duty of care.
- Experience working with fleet, drivers, suppliers and operational teams.
- Commercial capability across budgets, procurement, contracts or supplier performance.
- Confidence working with systems, dashboards, telematics or transport data.
- Ability to build national consistency across local operating environments.
- Strong stakeholder management across operational, executive and site-based teams.
- Bus, coach, public transport or passenger transport operations.
- School, student, community or assisted transport.
- Fleet management, or fleet assets.
- Practical judgement, calm escalation skills and a continuous improvement mindset.
- A genuine commitment to safe, reliable and well-governed student transport.

What you need to do now
If you're interested, click Apply Now to submit your resume. For a confidential discussion, please contact Hays Executive:

Andy Sundberg, Researcher
T: 02 •••• •630
E: ••••@hays.com.au

📌 Regional Fleet and Transport Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Hays Executive
📍 Sydney