Overhead Wiring Manager Nsw/Act

Sydney, NSW, AU, 2147**About John Holland**:
We're all about transforming lives by finding solutions to complex challenges. We do that by providing leading design, engineering, construction and asset operations, across infrastructure, transport, building and property in Australia and New Zealand.
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?

We are currently looking for an experienced **Overhead Wiring Manager** to join our team based in Seven Hills, NSW. You will be responsible for a key management function of the business and help maintain a strong team culture.
We're looking for a leader to drive the business to new heights using your expert knowledge and ability create new opportunities and deliver on them for John Holland within the rail industry.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Manage the overall delivery on or ahead of schedule with all stakeholder expectations met
- Provide and take leadership responsibility in health, safety and environment management
- Build strong internal and external stakeholder management through positive, pro-active and professional communication to keep key people informed
- Advise on industrial relations issues and implications and develop appropriate resolution
- Manage administrative duties for direct and indirect report requirements
- Ensure compliance in commercial and financial management including meeting budgets and identifying cost saving measures, accurate forecasting of both costs and revenue, take corrective action in line with authority and reporting frameworks and maximise the profit margin for the project
- Ensure adequate resource balance and capability to deliver larger John Holland projects as well as delivering for RIS NSW/ACT projects
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Seek and maintain relationship a client based for the RIS NSW/ACT business
- Identify and report on current and future external industry developments and trends which will affect the Business Groups work prospects
- Further develop relationships with existing clients throughout the NSW/ACT region and increase the existing client base via successfully securing and delivering new project opportunities
- Actively contribute to the strategic and operational development, growth and profitability of the Business Unit and the broader John Holland
- Lead and motivate the project team in order to meet or exceed all project targets and objectives
- Provide leadership that encourages team enthusiasm and innovation
- Provide technical advice during tender and delivery phase
- Monitor and maintain performance over the lifecycle of the projects

**Qualifications**:
Trade Qualification or similar (Degree, Diploma, Engineering, Building, Construction and/or Project Management)

**Experience**:

- Minimum 10+ years previous rail experience in a similar role
- Experience in industry relevant trade and construction operations of similar scale
- People and performance management of subcontractors, suppliers and direct labour
- Skill in review of design documentation, ability to understand drawings, provide constructability review and implement final design plans
- Safety and environment management, resource management and construction program and methodology
- Typical Supervision of projects in excess of $100M
- Understand productivity factors and utilisation planning
- Experience in pre-contracts and tendering

**We offer**:

- Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice packaging options available.
- Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with superannuation and up to an extra 18 weeks of superannuation paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two additional John Holland Days to prioritise health and 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