Title:  Temporary Works Manager

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do.

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the Project

The Linewide Alliance, comprising John Holland, Alstom, RATP Dev, KBR and WSP, are excited to be delivering the transformative Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) East Linewide package.

When SRL opens, the new rail services for passengers will also be delivered by a venture between RATP Dev and John Holland to operate and maintain the franchise for 15 years from 2035, to be known as TransitLinx.

The Alliance will deliver a world-class, service-proven driverless metro system that sets new benchmarks for comfort, safety, and reliability for Melbourne.

SRL is a transport and urban planning project that will deliver world-class public transport, reduce travel times, and support the delivery of more homes and housing.

About the Role

We are seeking a Temporary Works Manager to provide engineering design management and coordination to site-based design and construction teams specialising in temporary works and construction methodology.

You will be responsible for ensuring the management and control of temporary works is systematic to enable the construction team, external consultants and relevant subcontractors to manage compliance through delivery, with clear delineation of responsibilities and interface management.

This role undertakes value engineering, Safety in Design (SiD), and risk and opportunity identification exercises to meet project and business goals. It exercises commercial and business acumen through the management of program, risk and costs associated with temporary works design and construction and provides contractual inputs to external consultant and subcontractor scopes to ensure project risk and compliance coverage. 

You will ensure construction methodology is embedded in the design and planning phases of the project to adequately address risk and compliance through delivery.

Responsibilities

• Support construction team with development of preferred Construction Method for individual building structures, including identification of opportunities for integration of Temporary Works into Permanent Structure
• Contribute to Permanent Works variation scope to include discrete Temporary Works design packages, and management all aspects of their Temporary Works team (program, deliverables, budget, etc)
• Manage external consultant Temporary Works scope and SFCA, and management all aspects of their Temporary Works team (program, deliverables, budget, etc)
• Review subcontractor contracts for Temporary Works scope gaps or interface management
• Establish framework for Temporary Works Management Procedures
• Setup Design Workflows and responsibilities for consultants and relevant Temporary Works Stakeholders
• Manage design programs to ensure it correctly links all critical path activities to ensure any risk from delays are identified early and addressed accordingly
• Coordinate, interpret and distribute outputs from Temporary Works design packages with relevant stakeholders
• Support construction team with development of Temporary Works briefs for other Temporary Works design packages relating to various construction activities, also manage any Temporary Works consultant deliverables, budget, etc
• Support construction team with development, coordination and updating the Temporary Works Register with all temporary works design packages, including specific Temporary Works risk assessments and categorisation
• Support construction team with development of Risks/Opportunities register and coordinate outputs from these (Staging Modifications, Ties Recycling, Early Fabric Options, strengthening options for program advantages)
• Ensure construction team and relevant subcontractors adhere to site validation procedures (Permit to Load, Monitoring & Inspection, and Permit to Remove) for Temporary Works
• Assist external consultants with concept development for Temporary Works design packages
• Ensure residual risks relating to Temporary Works design packages are identified by the designer and communicated to the workforce

About You

You will hold a tertiary qualification in Engineering, Science, Building Construction (or equivalent) and bring a detailed understanding of various Temporary Works solutions and applicable design standards.

You will have experience in:

• Managing multidisciplinary consultants
• Contemporary practices in design and construction methodology
• Contractual, legal, commercial, industrial relations and legislative compliance management
• Advanced financial management, including cost reduction and meeting budgets
• Quantitative and qualitative safety, environment and quality risk management

Experience managing Temporary Works consultant deliverables across complex project environments and exposure to a range of construction and delivery contract models, together with your excellent client relationship and stakeholder management skills, will see you succeed in the role.

As part of the team, you can help us transform lives

Your success is reflected in ours, so we're committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What's in it for you

We're about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We offer:

Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.

Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.

Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you'll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.

Learning and development opportunities where you'll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.

Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong - that's why we're working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We've also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.

Flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it's flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we're committed to helping our people work flexibly.