National / Operations Manager

Join a Tier 2 contractor with excellent presence in the defence, aviation and industrial sectors with a strong reputation for delivering quality projects. A market leading Tier 2 contractor with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex projects is now seeking an experienced National Operations Manager or Construction Manager to join their growing business. The location of this role is fairly flexible due to the national presence of the company.

The projects you will be working on will be predominantly aviation and defence fuel pipeline and associated infrastructure. These jobs will be from smaller to $150m+ and you will be involved from tendering phase, through to building teams on the projects and then delivery of the projects. The successful candidate will need to come from a contracting background and there will be some travel involved as well as some of the projects are based in different states.

You will need to have strong commercial acumen, client facing skills, contracts management, design management, OHS, programming/planning experience as well as running high level meetings with internal and external stakeholders to provide a high quality service that will ensure client expectations are met and exceeded.

Responsibilities

• Business development and tendering skillset
• Design comprehensive project programmes and communicate to team
• Project delivery from inception through to completion
• Ensure team are delivering on construction programmes & project quality to programme
• Identify and manage construction risk through all projects
• Manage project expenditure and cash flow
• Management and achievement of external engineering design aspects of projects
• Design management
• Produce progress reports
• Deliver and manage client expectations

Qualifications and Requirements

• Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Construction Management or similar
• Minimum 10 years+ experience in the successful delivery of projects from start to finish ideally from a Tier 1 or 2 background in fuel services with a contractor
• Proven leadership ability in building and motivating teams to deliver high quality projects
• Previous experience delivering greenfield projects
• Detailed knowledge of local council and regulatory requirements/standards
• Strong planning and project financial reporting skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Well-developed interpersonal skills
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite
• Construction Safety Induction (white) card

This is a permanent full time position providing a great opportunity to work with a successful and growing organisation who offer challenging work and the potential for career progression.

If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for, click “Apply” to submit your resume or contact Lisa Feehily on jacob.montague-day@amida-recruit.com or 0406 849 202 or Sam Barnes on sam.barnes@amida-recruit.com.au or 0429 306 688 for further information.