Title:  Plant Operations Manager NSW

About John Holland

We’re all about transforming lives by finding solutions to complex challenges across a wide range of industries including infrastructure, property, rail, building and water projects in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.   
From the epic, to the intimate, everything we do improves life for someone, somewhere. It gives our business momentum and means we approach things a little differently.
While our competitors talk about what they do, we focus on why we do it. We transform communities to make them easier to move around, more connected and better to live in.
Are you up for the challenge? 

About the Role:
John Holland is seeking to hire a Plant Operations Manager to oversee the NSW and ACT Plant Team. This key appointment also plays a pivotal role within the wider National Plant Group. The NSW and ACT Plant Team consists of employees based at 3 workshops (Seven Hills, Kooragang Island and Rutherford) where over 1000 assets are maintained. You will be leading a team of very capable staff, tradespersons and support.
This position requires strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, knowledge of rail and civil plant and equipment, strong commercial and financial management skills and an understanding of asset maintenance and lifecycle principles. 

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Provide leadership, direction and support for the NSW & ACT Plant team, enabling team members to safely complete maintenance activities and effectively deliver plant services across the business.
• Support the General Manager in developing strategies to build plant and engineering capabilities.
• Develop and maintain strong, positive working relationships with customers and project stakeholders, providing them with safe, reliable and price competitive plant and equipment and related services, along with identifying growth opportunities for the plant business. 
• Develop and maintain a positive working environment and team culture that is aligned to John Holland’s values and delivers safe outcomes, continuous improvement and employee engagement, development and retention.
• Accountable for the NSW & ACT plant P&L, ensuring annual financial budgets are developed, costs controlled within budget, and accurate monthly reports and forecasts are delivered in a timely manner.
• Manage the maintenance program for all NSW & ACT plant assets, ensuring compliance to Technical Maintenance Plans and achieving required levels of asset reliability and availability.

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience in leading teams and developing positive team culture, with the ability to build team member capability and performance.
• Strong customer and stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated ability to collaborate with a diverse mix of peers and other stakeholders to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in leading a team to achieve safe outcomes in a high risk environment such as rail, construction or mining.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to lead a business function and implement strategies to achieve effective financial and commercial outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in managing a portfolio of assets such as plant and equipment within heavy industry (eg rail, infrastructure or mining). 
• Thorough understanding of asset lifecycle principles. 
• Tertiary or trade qualifications in a relevant discipline or field (eg, mechanical/electrical) or equivalent relevant experience.
• Ability to travel regularly to various sites based in Sydney and the Hunter region.

As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to 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 different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success. 
We’ll do all we can to help you develop your skills, and make a difference, right from the start. We have a flexible workplace and focus on all aspects of your physical and mental health and safety. 
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.