General Manager Marine

Who we are

TasPorts is a state-owned company responsible for ten Tasmanian ports and the Devonport Airport. We are a vertically integrated organisation providing a diverse range of port and marine operations and services around Tasmania. Our vision is to proudly connect people, products and solutions for the benefit of all Tasmanians.

With 99% of the State's freight moving through our multi-port system, TasPorts facilitates vital trade to enable industry partners and communities while ensuring the highest environmental and safety standards.

We are proud to be recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for All Women.

TasPorts | WORK180 Endorsed Employer

TasPorts is seeking a highly experienced and strategic General Manager Marine to lead the safe, efficient, and commercially effective delivery of marine operations across Tasmania's ports.

This is a critical executive leadership role responsible for overseeing marine services and ensuring operational excellence across a diverse and geographically dispersed portfolio.

About the Role

Reporting to the Group Executive Operations, the General Manager Marine will provide strategic direction and leadership across all marine functions, including pilotage, towage, and broader marine operations.

You will play a key role in ensuring:

• Safe, compliant, and efficient marine operations

• Strong commercial performance and service delivery

• Effective leadership of operational teams across multiple locations

• Continuous improvement and innovation in marine services

This is a permanent, full-time role based statewide.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee marine services including pilotage, towage, and fleet management

• Drive a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements

• Deliver commercial performance, managing budgets, revenue, and cost outcomes

• Develop and implement fleet asset strategies, including maintenance, renewal, and procurement

• Build strong relationships with customers, regulators, and stakeholders

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and service delivery

• Provide leadership across a statewide, multi-disciplinary team, driving culture, capability, and performance

• Contribute as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, shaping strategy and business outcomes

About You

You are an experienced senior leader with a strong background in marine operations. You bring both strategic capability and operational credibility, with a proven ability to lead complex teams and environments.

You will demonstrate:

• Significant leadership experience in marine, ports and logistics

• Strong understanding of maritime safety, compliance, and regulatory frameworks

• Commercial acumen and a focus on performance outcomes

• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills

• A commitment to safety, people leadership, and continuous improvement

Essential requirements

• Specialist marine operations technical knowledge and extensive experience in Pilotage, towage or other related maritime industry;

• Proven strategic leadership skills to lead, motivate and manage marine operational teams, and to work as a team player within executive and management teams;

• A proven change leader, comfortable with leveraging processes and systems to improve business performance;

• Ability to operate with significant autonomy, initiative and creativity in achieving outcomes;

• Ability to demonstrate a continuous development of safety culture, a commitment to customer, and high levels of personal accountability for safety; and

• Highly developed customer relationship and stakeholder management skills including the ability to achieve commercial outcomes in a timely manner

• Current Driver's Licence

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Maritime Security Identification Card (MSIC)

Desirable

• Tertiary qualified in an appropriate discipline or relevant experience in a previous Senior Executive role within the maritime industry;

• Experience in other aspects of marine and port operations, including landside operations, Asset and infrastructure management and logistics, and supply chain knowledge and

• Experienced at improving operational and cost efficiency through robust operational systems review and process re-engineering and managing a profit centre with business up to $20 million turnover p.a.

Why work for us?

As an employee of TasPorts you will benefit from our strong focus on wellbeing including a generous Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and participating in health and community building initiatives.

TasPorts encourages applications from all members of our community to support and grow a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are open to exploring flexibility with each role to support you to perform at your best while maintaining a healthy work life balance, your individual needs, and to ensure we can attract the best candidates for our roles. We look forward to hearing from you and how you would like to make a positive contribution to TasPorts and the Tasmanian maritime community.

Where to next?

TasPorts offers a supportive and flexible work environment, professional development opportunities and a range of attractive employee benefits.

We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where the individual differences of our employees are considered value-adding. We encourage applications from suitably qualified persons, including Indigenous Australians, people of all ages and people with a disability.

All applications are to include the following:

• Cover Letter

• Current CV

For more information about TasPorts, please visit our website: www.tasports.com.au, or if you have any questions regarding the role - please contact our Recruitment team via email: ***email_hidden*** .

Applications close 12noon, 3rd July 2026.

Desired Skills and Experience

Significant leadership experience in marine, ports and logistics

Strong understanding of maritime safety, compliance, and regulatory frameworks

Commercial acumen and a focus on performance outcomes

Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills

A commitment to safety, people leadership, and continuous improvement