Title:  Area Manager - Earthworks

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.

About the Project

John Holland has recently been awarded the Illabo to Stockinbingal section of Inland Rail in NSW. The Illabo to Stockinbingal section is about 39km of new rail corridor located within the local government areas of Junee and Cootamundra-Gundagai. It will provide a direct route from east of Illabo, tracking north to Stockinbingal and connecting into the existing Forbes rail line.

Illabo to Stockinbingal is a DIDO Project, accommodation is provided on the 2:1 (2 weeks on / 1 week off) roster. 

About The Role

Area Manager – Earthworks 

• Providing leadership and direction to site engineers, supervisors, and teams working on the bulk earthworks, fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Experience in remote location roster based work and highly resilient
• Operational management, overseeing bulk earthworks projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Working with senior management to develop strategic plans for the earthworks department, including improvements in processes and the incorporation of new technologies.
• Encouraging the adoption of innovative practices and technologies to improve efficiency and productivity in earthworks operations.
• Apply contemporary practices in construction methodology to complete assigned works in compliance with client expectations, company objectives and contractual obligations.
• Manage development of and present to construction manager construction plan, programming and completion schedules.
• Monitor progress, ensuring that work quality and techniques are of a high standard and report regularly on project performance, and cost against baseline targets.
• Authorise engagement of subcontractors, management of subcontractor work to achieve outcomes.
• Stakeholder management: 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
• People management: Establish and develop a high performing team to ensure the project has the capability to achieve targets
• Financial management: 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

To be successful in this key role, you must have:

• Degree qualified Civil Engineer, Construction Management or similar
• Previous experience within a Tier One contractor 
• Delivery of infrastructure projects, with exposure to Civil, Earthworks, Roadworks and Rail construction
• Exposure or knowledge in material processing, crushing, screening, and blasting 
• Direct or transferable experience from other disciplines welcome
• Passion for teamwork and delivering on tight deadlines
• Excellent time management and prioritisation
• Understanding of HSEQ management systems, compliance, and reporting procedures

We Offer

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 industry-leading leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

• 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.