Senior Project Manager

3 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia John Holland Full time

About John Holland

We transform lives with everything we do at John Holland. Our purpose is simple, yet powerful.

We know that building is about people - customers, employees, and communities. That's our difference. We have deep experience and capability, combined with a genuine care for creating better lives.

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to bolster our building unit. This role involves working on large-scale residential projects, valued at $200m+, in a project support capacity. The main purpose is to help deliver complex projects in accordance with design requirements, time, cost constraints, and commercial, HR, safety, quality, and environment targets.

Key Responsibilities

  1. Manage the overall delivery of the project program, on or ahead of time, with all client expectations met.
  2. 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.
  3. Manage specialist functions of design, engineering, procurement, and construction, manage the interaction of various disciplines and multiple work streams.
  4. Liaise with the Construction Manager to modify design in construction systems and methods as necessary.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Demonstrate leadership in health, safety, and environmental management.
  8. 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.
  9. Stakeholder management: Ensure that stakeholders are actively engaged, and beneficial relationships between the project and the client, subcontractors, community, and other external parties are developed and maintained.
  10. 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.
  11. Contribute to new business, continuous improvement, and broader business activities.
  12. 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

  1. Bachelor of Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or equivalent.
  2. Diploma or Masters of Project Management, Certificate IV Safety.

Experience

  1. Multiple projects completed in a project management role on residential projects.
  2. Management of multidisciplinary projects and project teams.
  3. Contemporary practices in design and construction methodology.
  4. Contractual, legal, commercial, industrial relations, and legislative compliance.
  5. Advanced financial and commercial management, including cost reduction and meeting budgets.
  6. People and performance management, including the performance of subcontractors.
  7. Complex client relationship and stakeholder management.
  8. Quantitative and qualitative safety, environment, and quality risk assessment.
  9. Analysis of and reporting on complex project performance, compliance, defects, and/or non-conformance.
  10. Pre-contracts experience in managing tenders as a Bid Manager for a range of projects.
  11. 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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