Deputy Site Manager / SSE - Weipa, QLD, Australia

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Project Overview:

The Project is a greenfield mining, process, material handling and ship loading project with a focus on sustaining production, minimise environmental impacts, strengthen long-term relationships with neighbouring communities and foster local economic development.

Job Summary:

In this role, you will lead a team and supervise superintendents and/or craft professionals on a project. You will direct craft professional activities and work schedules, and coordinate subcontract work activities and team development. Your oversight will ensure craft professionals have the tools required to be productive, comply with project policies, procedures, and job site work rules and procedures, and perform within specifications, schedules and budgets.

You will monitor and organize subcontractor planning, safety, quality, and technical activities on a complex project with multiple stakeholders’ involvement, through the coordination and instruction of subcontractor’s management staff. Your field supervision will help ensure operations are planned to coincide with overall established schedules and that work methods are planned and executed safely.

Major Responsibilities:

PFS Tier I - most applicable to Area Superintendents and PFSs on projects (<$250m) of moderate complexity and few stakeholders involved.

Leadership / Supervision (Supervision of discipline and lead superintendents with 100+ craft)

• Proactively engages with their team’s development through CPM, Competency development/assessment and feedback
• Supervises and directs craft activities, subordinate superintendents, and others, as assigned.

Planning / Productivity

• Determines workforce requirements.
• Prepares reports and forecasts, including summary of construction progress, craft personnel forecasts, and expenditures forecast.

Tools, Materials & Equipment

• Monitors tool and equipment usage on the site.
• Prepares Field Material Requisitions for tools and consumables and ensures that the crafts have the tools they require to be productive.

Safety & Quality

• Ensures assigned construction operations and subcontractors’ performance are in compliance with specifications Responsible for the implementation of corporate/project policies, procedures, and instructions within assigned operations.
• Monitors work activities and ensures the quality of work performed.

Technical

• Works with Construction Field Engineers, Foremen, and Craft Professionals, in interpreting Engineering design documents, vendor documents, and other technical documents
• Coordinates engineering solutions with Subcontractors, and Foremen and Craft Professionals.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires bachelor's degree (or international equivalent) and 10-13 years of relevant experience or 14-17 years of relevant work experience

Required Knowledge and Skills:

• Deputy Site Manager / Senior Site Executive, responsble for overall site management while the Site Manager is on R&R.
• Management of the construction team.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing subcontractor construction activities on large, complex infrastructure or industrial projects with multiple stakeholder interfaces.
• Strong knowledge of construction planning, scheduling, resource management, construction methodologies, and work packaging.
• Proven ability to enforce safety, quality, and compliance requirements while ensuring construction activities meet project specifications and standards.
• Strong technical understanding of construction drawings, specifications, constructability principles, and field engineering coordination.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills to support efficient project execution and delivery

Total Rewards/Benefits:

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