Construction Manager
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At PCL, we build the places where life happens and we find camaraderie in the process. We're a community of builders committed to building better communities. That's why we're always looking ahead, and not just to the next project or what's next in our industry.
With a significant footprint in Australia within the renewables sector, we are looking to welcome a Construction Manager to our Solar team to oversee mechanical operation in country New South Wales.
Responsibilities
- Work with our project managers to ensure implementation of PCL’s safety program, including integrating PCL’s safety program into all site plans and procedures and adhering to all safety and record-keeping requirements.
- Supervise, direct, coach, train, and mentor your team, which include direct and indirect reports as well as sub trades.
- Communicate with multiple stakeholders to ensure that performance, productivity, quality, and safety requirements are met.
- Proactively manage time, quality and financial metrics.
- Liaise between field engineers, estimators, trades and other stakeholders to ensure construction complies with drawings and specifications.
- Develop and implement the Project Execution Plan (PEP) and resource-loaded three-week lookahead schedules.
- Review and understand the contract and subcontracts, in order to develop a plan that identifies and mitigates risk and maximises opportunities to ensure all financial targets, including budgets, forecasts and profitability levels are met.
- Maintain project administration correspondence and complies with documentation requirements.
Qualifications
- Postsecondary diploma / engineering degree in a related discipline.
- Minimum two years prior experience working on an Australian Solar farm.
- Minimum two years prior experience managing a construction workforce on an Australian Solar farm.
- In-depth knowledge of and experience in renewables construction sector and operations, including building materials and construction specifications/methods.
- Proficient understanding of and ability to apply logic to the schedule in order to build a plan using scheduling software.
- Ability to coordinate multiple scopes of a construction project, including scheduling, monitoring, and coordinating own forces work (OFW) and trade contractors with three-week lookahead schedules.
- Ability to complete material, labor and equipment takeoffs.
PCL is an innovative, employee-owned company of people who find passion in their profession and take pride in doing great work every day. Our work powers the infrastructure and utilities that are essential to daily life and our projects are the scene of vacations, careers, education and healing. We are consistently ranked among the best companies to work for because we are committed to supporting and developing our teams.
The PCL Companies celebrate diversity and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating equitable opportunities and an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We make employment-related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or veteran status.
PCL combines numerous pay and benefit strategies to provide a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package. Your salary, which considers your unique qualifications and experience, is just one component of the robust total rewards you'll enjoy at PCL. This may include an employee share purchase offering, discretionary annual performance bonus, superannuation, and career development programs.
Please note: YOU MUST HAVE AUSTRALIAN WORKING RIGHTS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE. NO AGENCIES PLEASE.
Together, we can build success and a better future. Let’s get started!
Primary Location: New South Wales
Job: Construction Manager
Requisition: 8135