The Construction Manager is responsible for managing field crews on a day-to-day basis achieving project build landmarks, at a competitive cost, at high quality and in a safe manner. Responsibilities cover overseeing the whole build life-cycle, from receiving the designs, planning and managing the build, to completion and acceptance.
**Outline of Key Skills and Experience Required**:
- Tertiary qualification, e.g. Diploma in Telecommunications, Engineering Management, Finance, Project Management, or similar.
- Industry project management certification, e.g. PMP, Prince 2.
- Good computer literacy skills (MS Office software suite) and certifications in HSE, computer literacy etc.
- Good understanding of mobile networks with ability to analyse and decipher mobile network designs.
- Experience managing field-based teams, preferably in building mobile wireless networks.
- People leadership ability and experience overseeing telco network build projects in Australia.
- Good knowledge of HSE aspects when building telco networks in Australia, e.g. working at heights and with EME.
- Financial management experience.
- Excellent prioritizations and time management.
- Well organised with effective planning skills and ability to work in a flexible, fast-paced environment.
- Good interpersonal and communication (verbal & written) skills.
- Able to interact with people at various levels inside and outside the organization, and work effectively with a diverse workforce.
**Outline of Key Responsibilities**:
- Analyse designs to determine the scope of works to be completed. Call out design issues.
- Compile build quotes and plans to ensure design outcomes are achieved, whilst adhering to HSE requirements.
- Work in close alignment with Field Operations by providing instructions and overseeing day-to-day tasks.
- Ensure plant, equipment and consumable materials are arranged.
- Ensure outage windows and support services are planned and managed, e.g. civil and electrical contractors.
- Schedule work for field crews and ensure build works are performed efficiently to required quality and technical standards within allocated time.
- Provide in-field build support to field crews, acting as 1st point of escalation for issues encountered by build teams.
- Ensure builds are completed and all landmarks are achieved.
- Identify and raise build variations.
- Achieve build time, cost and quality targets.