Kempten (Allgäu), Bavaria, DE (On-site)1 open job
Family-owned global logistics provider (founded 1930, HQ Kempten) running European road, air and sea forwarding, rail, contract logistics and warehousing across 427 locations, with digital shipment visibility and information management systems.
DACHSER runs freight at a scale where the digital surface is the operation. The family-owned logistics company, founded in 1930 and headquartered in Kempten, Germany, employs 37,452 people across 427 locations worldwide and moves goods through European road logistics, global air and sea forwarding, rail services, contract logistics, and warehousing. The network depends on information systems: eLogistics provides shipment visibility and information management to customers, customs handling runs on shared data, and transport network optimization coordinates flows across borders and modes.
The threat model follows the infrastructure. Warehouse automation and ongoing investment in technical systems mean operational technology sits alongside IT in facilities handling industrial and consumer goods. Shipment visibility technology exposes customer-facing data flows; customs services process documentation that is high-value and time-sensitive. Sector coverage adds its own constraints - automotive, chemicals, fashion, life sciences and healthcare, food, industrial goods, and consumer goods each carry different data handling and continuity requirements, from temperature-sensitive food supply chains to regulated healthcare shipments.
Technical work concentrates in four domains: warehouse automation, digital logistics and information management systems, transport network optimization, and shipment visibility technology. The company describes its operating principle as "Intelligence in Logistics," with a strategy built on sustainable growth and long-term investment rather than short-cycle expansion. Being family-owned, DACHSER frames its approach around combining multinational reach with founder's values and a long-term perspective - relevant context for anyone evaluating how security and engineering decisions get funded and sustained.
Scale is the operational fact to reckon with: 427 locations, tens of thousands of employees, and a service portfolio spanning road, air, sea, rail, contract logistics, value-added logistics, and specialized food and industry solutions. Any security work here touches physical operations as much as software.
