Area Manager

**About The Role**:
Are you an experienced leader ready to take on a high-impact, multi-site role in a thriving business with a proud history and exciting future? We are seeking a passionate and results-driven Area Manager to join our senior leadership team and lead our operations across the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers.

As Area Manager - South, you'll hold end-to-end accountability for two key sites (Helensvale and Ballina), with further growth on the horizon. Reporting to the Regional Manager Qld, and sitting on the State Lead Team, this role has full P&L responsibility and oversight of sales, operations, safety, and people leadership.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of a high-performing region, delivering strong results while fostering a culture of safety, excellence, and continuous improvement.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Full P&L and EBIT ownership across a multi-site operation
- Strategic sales leadership and development of market relationships
- Championing safety and ensuring outstanding safety outcomes
- Leading, coaching, and developing a high-performing team
- Driving operational excellence and customer fulfilment
- Overseeing facility and asset management
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders in HR, Safety, and Engineering
- Delivering on business growth, performance targets, and capital investment plans

You're a strategic, people-first leader with a passion for delivering results. You're commercially astute, hands-on when needed, and thrive in a dynamic, customer-focused environment.

**You'll bring**:

- Proven experience in a senior operations or leadership role (tertiary qualifications desirable but not essential)
- Strong sales capability and a track record of building effective market relationships
- Demonstrated success in leading P\&L and delivering strong financial performance
- A commitment to exceptional safety leadership
- Experience leading teams across multiple sites
- Exposure to the building and construction industry (advantageous but not required)
- A history of creating high-performance cultures and driving continuous improvement
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and change leadership skills

This is more than just a job - it's a chance to lead a significant part of our business, influence the next phase of growth, and be part of a close-knit leadership team. If you're looking for a career-defining opportunity where you can make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

**Key Benefits**:
Below are some of our key central benefits that are available to InfraBuild employees. Other benefits may be available depending on your role or site.
- **Generous parental leave**: 20 weeks paid Primary Carer Leave and 3 weeks paid Partner Leave for those who have worked at the business for at least 12 months. The company also provides superannuation contributions for the Primary Carer during the period of unpaid parental leave for eligible employees (limitations apply).
- **Access to long service leave after 5 years**: Employees who are not covered by an Enterprise Agreement can access accrued Long Service Leave (LSL) at the rate of 1.3 weeks per year of service after 5 years continuous service.
- **Employee Benefits Program**: discounts for employees, friends and family on a huge selection of products and services from a variety of brands including Samsung, Coles, Harvey Norman, Village Cinemas, Dick Smith, Vodafone, Thrifty and many more.
- **Corporate rates for private health insurance**: Nib Health Insurance offers discounted cover for employees.
- **Employee Assistance Program**: Converge International, our EAP, offers confidential, professional and free counselling and support resources in areas such as marriage/family difficulties, interpersonal conflict, stress, depression or anxiety, alcohol and/or drug dependencies, grief, loss or trauma and workplace problems.

**About Us**:
**The Australian Reinforcing Company (ARC)** is a local supplier of steel reinforcing that Australians have trusted for more than 100 years. With a proud history of innovation, supported by the largest branch distribution network in Australia, ARC provides a localised service adapted to our communities, towns & cities from Tasmania to Townsville, and everywhere in between.

**ARC** is a brand of **InfraBuild**, Australia's leading integrated steel manufacturing, distribution and recycling business, making steel using our electric arc furnaces. InfraBuild provides solutions for commercial and residential construction, large scale and nation-building infrastructure as well as our primary producers and rural sectors. With ambitions to be carbon neutral by 2030, each day we help build futures through sustainable steel.

**Why Work Here?**:
We offer more than just a job; we provide a dynamic environment built on **three pillars** that define our commitment to both our team and our industry.
- **Work with a greater purpose**: Join us in the pursuit of a sustainable future as we