Services Director

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About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do.

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About The Role

Provide leadership, support and guidance in all aspects of building services management to the Regional Building Team to achieve business plan objectives, regional and project deliverables.

What You Will Do

• Build and maintain relationships with key consultants, suppliers, subcontractors and stakeholders.
• Develop strategies which support and enhance the business plans of the Region
• Liaise with prospective clients, suppliers and subcontractors to identify potential opportunities and partnerships
• Lead commercial discussions, agreement and management with consultants, subcontractors and suppliers. Including the development of scope of works.
• Develop and implement building services design, delivery, and commissioning processes to be implemented on prospective and current projects
• Develop and Implement standardised building services scopes including temporary works
• Develop services design processes on prospective and current projects to enhance design and delivery strategies
• Monitor progress and identify risks and opportunities of building services works on existing projects, including through design, procurement, delivery, and commissioning
• People management: Monitor building services staff to ensure the project has the capability to achieve targets, supervise workforce, including subcontractors, and foster a high-performing team within a positive employee relations environment. Lead growth and development plans for the services cohort within the region
• Lead the services bid and tender strategies, bid requirements and assessment of services consultants and subcontractors.
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• Specialist trade and/or Associate design qualification
• Experience delivering technology and building services on major projects ($500M+)
• 15 years’ experience in engineering and technical management roles
• 5 years in senior building services role for Tier 1 or National contractor
• Multi-disciplined project experience in tender, design and construction phases of projects in Australia and internationally
• Expert in statutory compliance requirements in regions and territories where we operate
• Demonstrated commercial acumen and experience managing commercial relationships, budgets, cost control
• Demonstrated stakeholder management skills with a focus on relationship building, influencing, communication and negotiation skills
  
  

As part of the team, you can help us transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What's in it for you when you join John Holland?

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We Offer

Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.

Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.

Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.

Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.

Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.

Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.