Title: Senior Project Manager
Sydney, NSW, AU, 2009
About John Holland
At John Holland our purpose is simple - we transform lives with everything we do.
We have always known that Building is about people - 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.
About the role
We are looking to bolster the building unit with a Senior Project Manager who has experience working on large scale residential jobs ($200m+) to initially work in the office in a project support capacity.
The main purpose of this position is to help delivery of large and complex projects (normally valued $200m-$1bn) in accordance with design requirements, time and cost constraints, and commercial, HR, safety, quality, and environment and community targets.
As well as achieve or exceed project financial targets, identifying and mitigating issues as they arise and capitalising on opportunities.
Key responsibilities of the role include;
- Manage the overall delivery of the project program, on or ahead of time with all client expectations met
- Assign resources to deliver the works within budget, time, quality and regulatory standards, monitor and guide workflow, setting daily, weekly, and long-term project goals
- Manage the specialist functions of design, engineering, procurement and construction, manage the interaction of various disciplines and multiple work streams
- Liaise with the Construction Manager to modify design in construction systems and methods as necessary
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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: Monitor staff and labour resourcing to ensure the project has the capability to achieve targets, supervise workforce, including subcontractors, and foster a high performance team within a positive employee relations environment
- Contribute to new business, continuous improvement and broader business activities
- Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, systems, reporting and procedures
About You: To be successful in this role, you will have the following:
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering, Construction Management, Business or equivalent
- Diploma or Masters of Project Management, Certificate IV Safety
Experience
- Multiple Projects completed in a project management role on Residential projects
- 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
- Pre-contracts experience in managing tenders as a Bid Manager for a range of projects
- Management of $100m+ Residential projects
What's in it for you when you join John Holland?
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.
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.
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