Title:  Construction Manager

About John Holland

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

We’ve always known that Building 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 Role / Are you up for the challenge?

Join Queensland’s Building BU, where we deliver landmark projects across health, education, civic, and commercial sectors. With a growing business and a strong return-employment trend, we’re building more than structures—we’re building careers .

Our portfolio includes high-profile infrastructure backed by government investment and industry-leading delivery standards

We are seeking an experienced Construction Manager to join our Queensland Building business unit.

The Construction Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of a portfolio of construction projects in accordance with safety, commercial, time, design, quality, sustainability and all other Contract requirements while maintaining client relationships and promoting opportunities for future work. Achieve or exceed project financial targets, identifying and mitigating issues and capitalising on opportunities.

Responsibilities of the role include / What you will do;

• Critically review budgets and job plans, making adjustments as required with the bid and project leader
• Ensure strong contract, commercial and financial risk management, accurate forecasting of both costs and revenue, take corrective action in line with JH’s authority and reporting frameworks and maximise the profit margin for the project. Continue to stretch each project team to meet their “target” gross profit position.
• Monitor legal, contractual and financial aspects of construction projects
• Ensure the provision of a safe working environment across all project site.
• Manage the overall delivery of the project, on or ahead of time with all client expectations met
• Oversee, monitor and assist with all projects time, cost, design and quality requirements. Implement adjustments and mitigation measures appropriately.
• Review progress against plans, contractual arrangements and delivery milestones to ensure they are on schedule and within quality and cost estimates and take effective remedial action as required
• Review regular construction project reports for Qld/NT BU ELT and BU SLT. Be proficient with all details of cost, program, site progress, risks etc to enable timely informed discussions, collaboration and decision-making.
• Oversee the selection of sub-contractors ensuring they are reputable and meet JHG’s selection criteria
• Monitor all project activities to ensure they comply with relevant legislation (e.g. Workplace relations, environmental legislation, OH&S)
• Monitor all project activities to ensure the compliance with JHG management system, policies and procedures
• Ensure all direct reports are aware of the project’s KPI’s, goals and objectives, and the connection of their role to these goals and objectives
• Monitor and review the performance of direct reports and provide leadership, mentoring and coaching to the project leadership team (PM, SM, CM, DM and SPE).
• Drive performance by setting standards, objectives and holding people accountable for meeting them
• Ensure optimal staff and labour resource allocation across projects to ensure the project has the capability to achieve targets, budget, time, quality and regulatory standards, monitor and guide workflow, setting daily, weekly, and long-term project goals and foster a high performance team within a positive employee relations environment
• Develop and retain staff with the view to progress staff through the company
• Demonstrate leadership in health, safety and environmental management
• Demonstrate leadership in risk management, compliance and auditing, and ensure legislative, pre-contract and commercial obligations are met, including compliance with the relevant Building Code
• Ensure that stakeholders are actively engaged and that beneficial relationships between the project and the client, subcontractors, community and other external parties are developed and maintained
• Contribute to new business, continuous improvement and broader business activities
• Provide input into construction tenders and negotiations
• Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, systems, reporting and procedures

To be successful in this key role, you must have / What we are looking for;

Qualifications                           

• Bachelor of Engineering, Construction Management, Business or equivalent
• Diploma or Masters of Project Management, Certificate IV Safety

Experience                    ­       

• 15+ years of experience in project management roles
• Management of multidisciplinary projects and project teams
• Contemporary practices in design and construction methodology
• Contractual, legal, commercial, industrial relations and legislative compliance
• Advanced financial and commercial management including cost reduction and meeting budgets
• People and performance management including the performance of subcontractors
• Complex client relationship and stakeholder management
• Quantitative and qualitative safety, environment and quality risk assessment
• Analysis of and reporting on complex project performance, compliance, defects and/or non-conformance

Typical              ­           

• Management of $1bn+ projects
• Experience as Project Manager and Construction Manager
• Experience in managing a variety of contracts, e.g. Joint Ventures, Alliances, Design & Construct.
• Pre-contracts experience in managing or overseeing tenders for a range of projects

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.

• Flexible working that works for you as we know 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.