Construction Manager

About Verbrec

With over 600 dedicated team members operating out of locations across Australia and New Zealand, Verbrec is an ASX listed company (ASX: VBC) providing industry-leading engineering, operations and asset management services across the Entire Asset Lifecycle, with a significant focus on growth into new and existing industries.

We provide services to our clients across Australia, New Zealand, PNG and the Pacific, across the energy, infrastructure, mining and defence sectors, to empower them to improve efficiency and capability. We take pride in our focus on safety, while driving a strong people-focused culture to make transformations toward a sustainable and smart future.

About the role

With EPC, Construction and Maintenance projects and clients growing, we are looking for a customer and delivery focused Construction Manager who is proactive in delivering on our client’s expectations. You will work closely with all internal and external stakeholders and work to maintain the dynamic team culture at Verbrec. You will be exposed to clients across defence, water, oil & gas, utilities, mining, renewables, and other local industry projects.

This role, reporting to the General Manager, forms part of the local leadership team responsible for developing the business strategy, culture and performance across the South Business Unit.

As a Construction Manager you will be responsible for:

• Construction activities completed safely, on time and budget
• Input into electrical construction portions of EPC tenders
• Developing and managing strong client relationships
• Managing electrical construction and maintenance teams and sub-contractors

About you

You will be focused on developing a successful career alongside a passionate team with a good work and life balance. Your experiences will display:

• Previous Construction Manager experience in a similar position
• Previous supervisory experience within the resource industry
• Demonstrated experience leading  and managing workforce and subcontractors, typically within an electrical construction environment.
• Understanding of Enterprise Agreements
• Understanding of Project Management principles including Contract management.
• Demonstrated budget management experience.
• A Class SA electrical licence is preferred but not essential
• Hold, or be eligible to obtain a DCAC clearance
• White Card
• Management of eCOC regulatory requirements
• Solution-focused, practical, functional problem solver
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability of work
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage and build client relationships.
• Current Australian Driver’s Licence – required for regular travel to regional projects
• Applicants must be Australian Citizens to meet defence security requirements

The new Verbrec brand represents our evolution and continued growth by leveraging emerging techniques and technologies for the benefit of our clients. Evolution, engineered.

Our Vision - Meeting the future by engineering transformative solutions through full project and asset lifecycles.

Our Promise to You - We believe in passionate and innovative people delivering our success. We take pride in seeing our people continually develop their career opportunities and access wonderful employee benefits. We offer our people engaging and challenging work, the opportunity for personal success and, a fun and friendly culture. We are an inclusive workplace, and we believe in diversity and opportunity for all.

Visit us at https://verbrec.com/join-our-team/ to learn about Employee Benefits, Learning & Development opportunities, our projects and other perks we offer to our employees at Verbrec.

*Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are encouraged to apply*

Only candidates with full working rights in Australia will be considered.