Express Coach Captain-Cairns ( Greyhound Australia )
- Drive Australia with an iconic national brand
- Industry-leading safety tech on every coach
- Autonomous role with real impact and variety
Experienced coach captains needed, ensuring passenger safety & providing excellent customer experience.
Greyhound Australia – Express Coach Captain-Cairns
Location: Townsville Operations
Posted on: 04 February 2026
About Us
Greyhound Australia is the country’s only national coach company and has proudly connected Australians for over 110 years. In 2023, we began an exciting new chapter as part of the Entrada Travel Group, expanding our travel and tourism operations across Australia and New Zealand.
Safety is at the heart of everything we do at Greyhound Australia, and we’re proud to lead the industry with Guardian Seeing Machine technology fitted across our entire coach fleet—part of our ongoing commitment to care and safety for our people and our customers.
We’re focused on the future and proud to be ambassadors of the beautiful country we share and explore every day. When you join us, you don’t just see Australia—you feel the heart of Australia and now is a fantastic time to join our growing organisation!
About the Role
Greyhound is seeking experienced and passionate drivers to join our team as Casual Coach Captains.
At Greyhound, we are always searching for amazing and passionate operators to represent our company from the frontline and give our customers the best experience possible.
Your key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
– Ensuring the safety of all passengers by adhering to and demonstrating safe work and driving practices.
– Understanding and complying with road rules, operational processes including pre-starts, ticketing, incident reporting, and passenger manifest and freight consignment procedures.
– Performing administrative duties when required including pre-start documentation, completion of log books, fault sheets, and journey records ensuring accurate records.
– Demonstrating correct manual handling of all luggage and freight, ensuring safe manual handling techniques are used at all times.
– Managing own fatigue through effective Basic Fatigue Management (BFM) which also includes being fit for duty.
– Performing other duties as listed in the Greyhound Coach Captain Position Description and or requested that are within your skill set and ability.
– Creating a positive customer experience on every single service.
– Driving a range of coaches across various parts of the scheduled services.
– Consistently ensuring the safety of you, your passengers and your vehicle.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will be a motivated and enthusiastic individual who is passionate about relationship building and is ready to live and breathe our values:
– Be safe.
– Let’s collaborate.
– Delight our customers.
– Be accountable.
– Be empowered.
– Enjoy what you do.
Licences/Requirements
Over the course of your duties, you will be expected to work across the operational roster. In exchange, we offer you an autonomous role where you can have a direct impact on the success of our business.
To be successful in this role you must have:
– A current HR driver licence.
– A current Drivers Authority or Endorsement.
– Demonstrable coach driving experience.
– An outstanding safety focus, including a commitment to your own fitness for duty.
– Experience delivering excellent customer service.
– Time management skills.
– Mechanical knowledge is desirable.
This position is available at:
Townsville Operations
788 Ingham Road – access of Weston Street
Bohle
4818 Queensland
Job Tags:BOHLE, Greyhound Australia, No Drivers Licence.
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