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SalaryLocated in the small suburb of Loxford in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, approximately three km north of the town of Kurri Kurri, approximately 35 km west of Newcastle and 125 km north of Sydney.
The Hunter Power Project is the construction of a 660MW Power Station comprising of two heavy-duty open cycle gas turbines. Located in the in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, 35 km west of Newcastle.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities
Safety
- Undertake all responsibilities in a safe manner.
- Ensure a safe working condition is present for all employees, contractors and visitors.
- Participate in daily pre-start meetings.
- Use appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems such as job safety analysis, pre-work checklists and risk assessments.
- Comply and have input into safe working procedures.
- Report hazards, incidents and accidents within company guidelines.
- Assist with safety sections for reports, tenders and proposals.
- Actively participate in safety training.
- Monitor and manage UGL employees and subcontractors to ensure professional standards are maintained.
- Ensure Apprentices are trained to competent levels.
- Undertake supervision of trade staff.
- Co-ordinate resources to fulfil project plan and outage requirements.
- Manage other Leading hands and trade staff, ensuring they are adhering to UGL’s procedures.
- Ensure full QA and HSSE documentation and systems are properly followed, ensuring Projects have adequate coverage and support
- Ensure procurement is approached centrally wherever possible to maximize gains/minimize unnecessary spend
- Maintain constant open communication with and clear direction for all relevant staff, remaining acutely aware of all tasks and activity on the project at all times
- Allocate daily tasks to all leading hands/direct reports, keeping close tabs on their productivity, efficiency, attitude and general work standards, focusing on avoiding any necessary re-work, whilst adhering to HSSEQ policies and meeting project deadlines.
- Oversee/run toolbox meetings/Daily Pre start meetings helping to foster a close and productive team environment.
- Closely monitor the working team’s environment, quickly identifying and eliminating any potential conflict or issues and resolving prior to escalation
- Track daily and weekly attendance and overall working hours, taking care to ensure weekly timesheet accuracy, including the capturing of any relevant travel time or other forms of allowances
- Ensure all relevant compliance and staff development training takes place to ensure project’s needs are met
- Working with HR’s guidance/assistance, ensure all new starters’ inductions take place on day one (when practicable) and that a “first week with UGL” itinerary is mapped out, regardless of project.
- Assist with QA documentation around Certifiable works.
- Provide leadership, direction, supervision and inspirational management to all team members (direct & indirect).
- Establish clear communication, solid lines of control and delegation to sub-ordinates and actively create and maintain a culture of openness, responsiveness, honest, ethics and responsibility across the team.
- Manage the selection and training of all team members, building a high skilled, performance focused, innovative, passionate team.
- Establish appropriate and effective KPI’s for all direct team members that allow performance to be clearly measured.
- Conduct Performance Development sessions with all direct reports in line with Company policy including consequence management where required and developmental requirements aligned with succession plans.
- Coach and mentor all direct reports on all aspects of their role, facilitating effective co-operation and trust, encouraging the free exchange for information, ideas and techniques between the various operations teams, leading and motivating them to be aligned to the same team goals and business objectives.
- 5 years’ experience
- Trade Qualification
- Strong communication skills (oral & written) including strong negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to establish effective working relationships with a variety of people at different levels both internally and externally
- Demonstrated ability to work independently to organise and prioritise demands, handle multiple complex tasks simultaneously, set and meet deadlines and follow-through within a fast paced environment with multiple and competing demands
- Proficient skills in computers: MS Word, Excel, Access, email
We keep Australia moving through our transport manufacturing, maintenance and operations offering, and we support the energy sector through our renewables, power generation, resources and transmission operations. We are an end-to-end engineering and services provider (one of Australia’s biggest inhouse design houses)
We’re the people behind communications, transport, utilities, power, oil, gas, Defence and renewables. We build tunnels under rivers and flyover roads. We’re the people who take on the problems that have never been solved. The ones that stretch you outside of what’s known, where your true genius is challenged and shines.
Diversity & Social Inclusion
UGL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where each employee feels safe to bring their whole selves to work. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, Women, Military Veterans, those from diverse cultural backgrounds, people with a disability and our friends in the LGBTIQ+ Community.
UGL respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in which we work and pays our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate an applicant’s suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. It’s good to know that UGL does not discriminate based on a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check
