General Foreman

About John Holland:

At John Holland, our purpose is simple, we transform lives with everything we do. We've always known that at its heart, Building is about people - our customers, our employees, and their 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 Role:

We are seeking a General Foreman for our New build $380m Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick. This role involves coordinating on-site teams to meet project plans and specifications, ensuring tasks are completed on time and within budget. 

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Coordinate the work and performance of multiple teams and subcontractors to achieve outcomes.
• Provide and take leadership responsibility in health, safety and environment management.
• Contribute to development of work methods and rolling short term construction programs and plan daily/weekly production work.
• Build strong internal and external stakeholder management through positive, proactive and professional communication to keep key personnel informed.
• Complete progress reporting, and activities, reports for shift handovers and consistent regular reporting to the Superintendent or Project Manager
• Ensure compliance of commercial and financial costs including budgets and the implications of directions within your authority limits
• Read and understand plans, review design documentation, read drawings, and provide constructive review and implementing of final designs 
• Ensure contractual mechanisms of subcontractors 
• Identify and mitigate risks prior to works commencing, communicate with and engage relevant stakeholders to control risk and contribute to build a risk management culture. 
• Select, train and develop leading hands and ensure the observance of safety, other work standards and fair and reasonable application of industrial agreements.  
• Maintain effective consultation with various workers’ representatives and committees on industrial and safety subjects handling issues as they arise and referring major issues to the Project Manager. 
• Perform all duties in accordance with John Holland policies, processes, systems and procedure
   

To be successful in this key role, you must have:

Qualifications

• Trade Qualification or similar.
• Typical ­ Year 12 or equivalent. 

Experience 

• Minimum 12 years previous construction experience 
• 5 years experience as a Foreman or a current General Foreman 
• Substantial Industry experience in Trade and Construction 
• Technical competency and understanding in the area that supervising
• Skill in review of design documents, ability to understand drawings, provide constructability review and implement final design plans. 
• Management of construction teams 
• Previous exp working on Tier 1 health projects
• People and Performance Management of subcontractors, suppliers and direct labour

As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to transform lives:

Your success is reflected in ours, so we're committed to being an employer of choice.

We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

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.
 

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.