Senior Logistics & Transportation Manager (Abilene, TX)

Key Responsibilities

Logistics & Shipping / Receiving

• Lead all onsite shipping and receiving operations, including packages, freight, operational materials, vendor deliveries, and internal site transfers.

• Coordinate delivery schedules, dock access, and material movement with vendors, site teams, and internal stakeholders. 

• Maintain accurate logs, inventory records, chain-of-custody documentation, and receiving controls where required. 

• Oversee storage, staging, and handling practices for operational, facility-related, and administrative materials. 

• Support inventory tracking, supply visibility, and material readiness for site operations and related support functions. 

Fleet Management & Campus Transportation

• Lead site fleet management activities, including vehicle readiness, usage coordination, service scheduling, inspection tracking, fueling/charging coordination, and recordkeeping. 

• Oversee campus transportation operations that support movement of personnel, materials, and site-support resources across the data center campus.

• Ensure fleet vehicles, carts, utility vehicles, or other transportation assets are maintained in a safe, reliable, and operationally ready condition. 

• Coordinate transportation schedules, routing, and dispatch practices to support efficient site movement and campus logistics. 

• Manage transportation-related vendors, service providers, and support contracts as applicable. 

• Maintain fleet and transportation records including usage logs, maintenance history, inspection compliance, licensing support, and incident documentation. 

• Monitor transportation service performance, identify gaps or inefficiencies, and drive improvements in campus mobility, responsiveness, and support quality. 

Asset Management & Site Support

• Lead asset-related site support activities through direct oversight of Asset Managers, ensuring strong governance, record accuracy, accountability, and operational visibility for site-support assets. 

• Oversee asset tracking, ownership coordination, lifecycle visibility, serviceability awareness, and disposition support for non-critical and operational support assets. 

• Ensure alignment between physical asset conditions, inventory records, documentation, and site operational needs. 

• Partner with site leadership, procurement, facilities teams, and administrative stakeholders to improve asset control, readiness, and record discipline across the campus. 

Operations Coordination & Administration

• Coordinate site visits, vendor activities, deliveries, transportation schedules, and facility-related support work to align with site procedures and operational schedules. 

• Oversee administrative workflows including purchase requests, work orders, invoices, service documentation, and related site-support processes. 

• Maintain organized records and documentation supporting site operations, logistics tracking, asset visibility, transportation readiness, audit readiness, and compliance requirements. 

• Manage incoming and outgoing mail, internal deliveries, and related administrative distribution processes. 

• Support operational coordination across logistics, transportation, building administration, asset management, and other site services functions as needed. 

Workplace & Site Support

• Lead workplace-support logistics for onsite meetings, employee engagement activities, trainings, leadership visits, and site events. 

• Coordinate site catering, conference support, event logistics, and general workplace service needs. 

• Oversee maintenance of break rooms, kitchens, conference areas, and common spaces through organized restocking and service coordination. 

• Monitor and replenish office, workplace, and site consumables to support a well-run and professional environment. 

• Help ensure site-support services are delivered consistently and aligned with Oracle standards for workplace experience and operational readiness. 

Vendor & Visitor Coordination

• Serve as a primary point of contact for non-technical vendors, delivery providers, transportation partners, and workplace-related service partners. 

• Support visitor logistics including badging coordination, transportation support where needed, meeting support, site visit readiness, and general arrival experience. 

• Ensure vendors follow site processes, scheduling requirements, safety expectations, and service standards. 

• Track vendor performance related to logistics, transportation, support services, and administrative scopes; escalate issues when needed. 

Leadership & Operational Support

• Directly manage site logistics personnel and support resources, including Asset Managers and Logistics Specialists, providing leadership, prioritization, coaching, and accountability across campus logistics, transportation, and asset-support functions. 

• Lead and coordinate logistics and site-support activities in a mission-critical environment where timing, documentation, and consistency matter. 

• Build structure and discipline around site logistics processes, transportation operations, asset governance practices, service standards, inventory handling, and workplace support execution. 

• Identify process gaps, service inefficiencies, asset-control issues, transportation risks, or recurring operational support problems and drive improvements that enhance site support quality and responsiveness. 

• Partner with site leadership, property management, facilities teams, compliance partners, and vendors to ensure smooth execution of campus support functions. 

• Support a professional, service-oriented workplace culture while reinforcing accountability, responsiveness, and operational discipline. 

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in logistics, transportation coordination, fleet operations, asset coordination, facilities coordination, office management, site administration, shipping/receiving, workplace operations, or related operational support roles. 

• Leadership experience managing people, vendors, logistics operations, transportation services, fleet activities, asset support functions, or site-support teams in a fast-paced environment; formal manager experience is helpful but not required. 

• Experience managing shipping/receiving, inventory processes, transportation coordination, fleet support, asset tracking, administrative processes, vendor coordination, workplace services, or logistics workflows. 

• Comfortable working in an operational, industrial, or mission-critical environment; data center, manufacturing, healthcare, telecom, transportation, or similar experience is a plus. 

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and familiarity with procurement systems, ticketing systems, inventory tools, fleet tracking systems, asset databases, or work order platforms. 

• Strong communication, coordination, and customer-service skills. 

• Ability to lift and move packages and support hands-on site logistics needs as required. 

Skills and Competencies

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and follow-through. 

• Strong coordination and multitasking capability in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. 

• Proactive problem solver with a service-oriented mindset. 

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively across site teams, vendors, and visitors. 

• Able to balance administrative responsibilities with hands-on operational support. 

• Strong judgment and reliability in an environment where consistency, responsiveness, and professionalism are essential. 

• Ability to lead support functions spanning logistics execution, campus transportation, and asset-governance coordination. 

Preferred Skills / Certifications

• Experience in data center campuses, industrial facilities, logistics hubs, transportation operations, large corporate campuses, or other high-activity operational sites. 

• Familiarity with inventory control practices, shipping systems, receiving documentation, vehicle scheduling, transportation coordination, vendor scheduling, service request coordination, and asset tracking processes. 

• Experience supporting audit-ready documentation, chain-of-custody processes, record accuracy, transportation logs, or compliance-sensitive material handling. 

• Experience with fleet scheduling, vehicle maintenance coordination, transportation dispatch, or campus mobility operations is a plus. 

• Forklift certification, defensive driving certification, or other site logistics / transportation equipment certification is a plus where applicable. 

• Experience with CMMS, ticketing systems, purchasing tools, inventory management platforms, fleet management tools, or asset management systems is a plus. 

Physical Demands / Work Environment
 This is an onsite role supporting a mission-critical data center environment where regular attendance, responsiveness, and execution discipline are essential. To perform these duties, you must be able to frequently walk, stand, bend, lift, carry, push/pull objects, and move throughout an operational campus environment. You may be required to lift or move packages and materials as part of shipping, receiving, inventory, transportation coordination, asset support, or workplace service activities. These tasks are performed in a professional and industrial setting and must be executed safely, with or without reasonable accommodation, to support the ongoing health and readiness of site operations.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to how mission-critical OCI data centers operate across regions and continents, influencing infrastructure reliability, security, sustainability, and long-term capacity growth.

Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineers, automation specialists, and compliance teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure, where disciplined execution and technical depth matter.

Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.

Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, role-based technical training, and development opportunities designed for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure and facilities operations.

casted demand, support for capacity optimization, and contribution to long-term business objectives.
-Drives readiness for infrastructure challenges within their area, manages cross-functional assessments of technical impact, and supports investment planning to enable scalable, resilient, and efficient infrastructure outcomes.

-Create and implements governance practices for managing risks and dependencies, ensuring resolution of critical deployment issues.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
-Leads coordination and alignment across planning functions within a business group or set of programs to support strategic initiatives and business objectives.
-Implements governance practices and communication workflows across teams, mitigates planning risks, and keeps leadership informed of key milestones, dependencies, and potential escalations.
Scalability and Efficiency Optimization:
-Leads Data Center scalability and capacity efficiency initiatives across programs or functions by driving the adoption of site design, tooling development and capacity modeling standards.
-Integrates input from operations teams, forecasting efforts, and partner functions to identify planning challenges.
-Supports leadership alignment on infrastructure investments that improve performance, resilience, and scalability.
Solution Integration and Execution:
-Leads integration of technical solutions across programs or business groups to support the execution of large-scale site plans.
-Implements governance practices for managing risks and dependencies, ensuring data center utilization is maintained with capacity limits, resolution of critical deployment issues, including decommissioning and remediations plans. 
-Supports alignment with infrastructure strategy and operational goals, including adherence to performance Service Level Agreements (SLAs) where applicable.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable are monitored and met. Provides direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and aligning with business needs. Guides teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Drives cross-functional partnerships to align on expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams. Coaches team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success. Promotes inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
Problem Solving:
-Provides direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions. Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the team to identify potential solutions.
Continuous Learning:
-Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning. Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements. Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.
Continuous Improvement:
-Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight. Guides team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages feedback for continued improvement.
Performance and Development:
-Drives performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Discusses development goals with team members, shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual goals are aligned with broader organizational goals. Develops and manages talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.