Department Manager - Civil

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Fulton Hogan is seeking a Department Manager Civil to lead the SEQ Infrastructure Services team in Ormeau, driving safe, profitable outcomes while mentoring the local team and building a sustainable pipeline of future works. You’ll own operations, champion the Living Safely culture, conduct monthly cost reviews, recruit and onboard staff, work with the estimating team on market trends, develop new opportunities, assist in plant procurement, and report spend with a focus on continuous improvement and self performing works. The ideal candidate is an engineer or site supervisor with strong financial and commercial acumen, leadership, and stakeholder management. We offer tailored training, flexible options, wellbeing benefits, and a REAL values oriented culture with RAP. If you don’t meet all criteria, apply anyway and show how your skills translate.

Job Description

Life at Fulton Hogan is about making the most of opportunities, taking responsibility, and making it happen. We appreciate our peoples’ courage, curiosity and unique perspectives, and look to collaborate as much as possible to explore safer, smarter and more efficient ways of working in this rapidly changing world. We don’t stand still – there are always opportunities to do more and do better.

• Keen to progress your career? Take full advantage of our tailored training, leadership, and mentoring programs; or leverage our partnerships with industry association such as Engineers Australia, Chartered Accountants, CPA Australia, Infrastructure Sustainability Council, The National Association of Women in Construction, plus many more.

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• Looking to enhance your wellbeing? We will encourage you to explore flexible working arrangements where possible. We offer great benefits, including corporate health and fitness programs, health insurance discounts, personal banking support, a range of retailer discounts, up to 18 weeks paid primary carers parental leave and up to 10 days paid secondary carers leave, access to our Employee Assistance Program (including your immediate family), and the option to take more time for yourself throughout the year with our Purchase Leave Policy.

• Want to help us better the communities we live and work in? Our purpose of creating, connecting, and caring for communities is more than a saying to us – it’s a way of thinking, working, and living because we're locals too, and seek to give back in ways that strengthen and build resilient communities. We do this because we genuinely care, enjoy what we do, and even manage to have some fun along the way! You’ll find us partnering with local and national community groups, like Clontarf Foundation, Black Dog Institute, and Soldier On, in addition to indigenous groups and social enterprises, to ensure that our good work positively impacts and brings about sustainable change within our industry.

• Do we offer a ‘competitive’ salary package? Of course! Speak to our Talent Acquisition or People & Culture team to learn more.

What’s on offer?

We are currently looking for a Department Manager – Civil to join our SEQ Infrastructure Services team. In this position you will lead the local team and assist Fulton Hogan drive effective, safe and profitable outcomes. This is an exciting role for a passionate candidate wishing to embark on new challenges, whilst working in a vertically integrated business where you will have support from existing teams to secure your success.

Based in Ormeau, we’re seeking someone with an ability to mentor and develop our people and who has demonstrated ability to meet the needs of both internal and external customers.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Be responsible for the overall operations and performance of the department ensuring compliance to all health and safety, quality, and environmental legislation and company procedures.
• Drive a safety-first approach across the department in line with Fulton Hogan's "Living Safely" Culture.
• Complete commercial and financial monthly cost reviews of ensuring forecasted costs are accurately completed across all projects.
• Recruit and onboard staff to drive the successful implementation of the civil services department.
• Understand market trends and movements, and work closely with the estimating team to secure a sustainable and strategic pipeline of future works.
• Develop new business opportunities from inception through to operation and provide ongoing management and leadership to the team.
• Assist in the selection and procurement of plant and equipment.
• Report and provide analysis of department spend on projects and detail opportunities for improvement with a focus on self-performing works.

How will you connect to the role?

To be successful in this role, you will be a highly enthusiastic and energetic hands-on- industry professional with robust experience in civil construction. This role will be well suited to an Engineer or Site Supervisor looking for their next career challenge. You will have strong financial and commercial acumen and excellent people leadership skills. You will be adept at building sound relationships, managing stakeholders and have an ability to take ownership and problem solve. A demonstrated understanding of costings, budgets, forecasting, subcontractor management, estimating and cost control is necessary, as is an ability to drive positive outcomes, while fostering a culture of autonomy, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Our people share the same set of values that keep us REAL. Respect, Energy and Effort, Attitude and Leadership encapsulate what we stand for at Fulton Hogan and encourage us to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where we listen to, care for, celebrate, and respect everyone.

We are committed to reconciliation and building and nurturing respectful relationships with First Nations peoples. Through our First Nations Engagement Strategy and Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), we aim to promote opportunities, cultural understanding and partnerships that celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of Indigenous communities.

If our values resonate with you, please submit an application for the position. If you’re not sure that you meet 100% of the selection criteria, that’s okay, we would still like to hear from you and potentially discuss how your skills could be utilised at Fulton Hogan.

For over 90 years, Fulton Hogan has been delivering high-quality infrastructure to improve the lives of people every day. Our 10,000+ team works in every kind of weather and environment, creating, connecting, and caring for communities across Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.

We celebrate and embrace diversity across our business and are committed to equal employment opportunities.

We believe in the value that diversity brings to our team and people who share our REAL values are encouraged to apply.