Fifo Site Manager - Npi

Whittens is an Australian owned and operated multidisciplined civil construction company, proudly offering over 22 years' experience throughout Western Australia, New South Wales, and Queensland.

With a growing reputation, we continue to partner with some of Australia's major Infrastructure, Mining, Oil and Gas and Defence clients, specialising in the delivery of large scale and technically complex concrete construction, roadworks, earthworks, and piping works projects.

Our mission, as an agile and people centric business, is to be the market leader in civil contracting, achieving sustainable growth through high performing people who safely deliver successful project outcomes for their clients.

Your Opportunity
Due to our continued growth, we are currently seeking applications from Site Managers with extensive experience in Non-Process Infrastructure / Building projects and with a genuine interest to positively influence project delivery and promote a memorable culture at Whittens.

About the Role
Reporting to the Project Manager, your overall responsibility is to provide onsite leadership coordination and oversite of the construction workforce including direct labour, subcontractors, and plant, ensuring all construction works are executed safely, efficiently, and effectively meeting client, HSE, quality, time, budget, and contractual requirements. Other duties include:

This role will work on a 2/1 FIFO roster to our remote project sites in Western Australia. As a Site Manager, you will be accountable for:

• Supporting the Project management team to champion a culture of high performance onsite
• Demonstrate strong and visible leadership skills through your behaviours, effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Contribute to the manning schedule to ensure adequately skilled and qualified candidates are planned for the project and take lead on the technical aspects of the job requirements during interviews
• Support the Project Manager/Construction Manager in the design and delivery of work program(s), including participation in weekly reviews
• Ensure agreed work program requirements are met for each component of the project and report variances to Project Manager
• Contribute to and build a strong safety culture
• Consistently monitoring resource and plant productivities to ensure program requirements are met.
• Participate in safety investigations, implementing any actions and relevant learnings
• Proactively manage employee Supervisor's performance and conduct thorough performance discussions
• Sound knowledge and understanding of the Contract to ensure ongoing compliance with the scope of work, specifications, drawings and subcontracts
• Monitor and control costs within your remit, particularly direct costs of plant and labour ensuring optimisation of available resources
• Provide effective communication, information flows, procedures and records necessary to facilitate delivery of contract and quality requirements

About You
To be successful, you will have the following:

• Previous experience as a Construction Manager /Site Manager overseeing similar remote NPI construction / Camp construction and/or building projects
• Demonstrated experience working in a DIDO or FIFO capacity
• Excellent planning, monitoring and documentation skills
• Demonstrated safety and environmental leadership behaviour
• Self-starter, with well-developed organisational and stakeholder management skills
• Flexible and able to work under pressure and to deadlines
• MS Office skills, particularly Excel or planning software such as P6
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills with the ability to problem solve

What we offer
Whittens are committed to investing in our people, offering learning and development opportunities to build on the skills and experience you bring. With a strong pipeline of future works secured, you can be assured that there are opportunities beyond the current project to build your career with us. In addition, we will offer:

• Generous and competitive salary package on Weekly pay
• Work amongst engaged leaders and collaborative teams
• High-performance supportive culture
• Safety being at the forefront of everything we do
• Eligibility for cash bonuses as part the employee referral program
• Discounted Health insurance
• Novated Lease Options
• Parental Paid Leave
• Long term permanent role and the opportunity to work on a range of projects across Australia

Whittens is committed to workplace diversity. We support women in civil construction, champion Indigenous partnerships and encourage people of all cultural backgrounds to apply.