Senior Maintenance Manager

Melbourne, VIC, AU, 3000

About John Holland

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

We've always known at its heart infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work.

That's our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of a team that thrives on rising to the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the project

John Holland is proud to be a key delivery partner on the Cross Yarra Partnership (CYP), responsible for the Operations & Maintenance of the transformative Metro Tunnel Project.

As part of this iconic infrastructure initiative, we're seeking passionate professionals to help operate and maintain five world-class underground stations and associated tunnel systems.

This is your opportunity to work on cutting-edge transport infrastructure, ensuring safety, reliability, and performance for generations to come. Be part of a team that's shaping the future of Melbourne's rail network—above and below ground.

About the role

As Senior Maintenance Manager with the Cross Yarra Partnership Maintenance team, you will support the Melbourne Metro Tunnel project from mobilisation to maintenance. During the Mobilisation period, your role is crucial in ensuring the seamless handover of assets from the construction teams to the maintainer by ensuring our asset management systems are ready for Day 1, ensuring asset information is complete and our teams are ready to commence maintenance on Day 1 of Operations.

During the Maintenance phase, your role is crucial to delivering appropriate and efficient maintenance, developing and delivering on maintenance technology while ensuring safety and asset reliability is maintained.

Responsibilities of the role include

• Lead the trial operations activities in preparation for the Maintenance Phase
• Lead the maintenance planning team in developing and executing the planned periodical maintenance
• Mobilise the maintenance delivery team including recruitment, training, and rostering, and equipment purchasing
• Manage contractor performance and ensure maintenance delivery is of high quality, effective, efficient and within budget.
• Ensure the Maintenance Team is equipped to meet contract obligations and KPI's including maintenance compliance, Abatement-free targets and asset availability
• Ensure accurate entry of data in the CMMS including the recording of spares usage to assist spares management and utilisation
• Accountable for maintenance budget and forecasting, and supporting the team in the management of subcontracts
• Perform all management activities associated with the maintenance delivery team including rostering, leave management, fatigue management ensuring optimum supervisor coverage of the assets and work activities at all times
• Work collaboratively as part of the Senior Leadership Team, proactively engaging with all members of the team to achieve the wider business objectives

To be successful in this key role, you must have

• Trade or Engineering Maintenance Qualification.
• Hands on maintenance experience with the ability to understand equipment and systems to facilitate problem solving in a complex operating environment.
• Strong people leadership capabilities.

Experience with:

• Contemporary practices in whole of life asset management.
• Contractual, commercial, and legislative compliance management.
• Financial management including cost reduction and meeting budgets.

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

What 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 its flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we're committed to helping our people work flexibly.

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