At Wollongong City Council we have a steadfast commitment to creating an Extraordinary Wollongong. We are in an exciting period of transformation and focused on delivering exceptional services, infrastructure and facilities for our community.
Our strength is the diversity of our people. Together our responsibility is to create an inclusive place where everyone is welcome, valued and belongs. We lead with courage, openness and curiosity. Our conversations and actions celebrate diversity, inclusion and belonging. Learn more about us here.
We are excited to be offering an opportunity for an experienced Construction Supervisor to join our positive and motivated Major Projects Delivery team. Harness your technical expertise and construction management experience to deliver Council's diverse capital construction projects.
About the role
Contribute to creating an Extraordinary Wollongong by assisting in the delivery of Council's Infrastructure Delivery Program. In this essential role, you'll supervise construction projects involving the construction of Council's civil engineering and building assets. You'll be responsible for the safety, quality and environmental performance of all works undertaken.
You will bring a trade, tertiary qualifications, frontline management or equivalent and extensive experience in building construction projects. Along with your construction supervision and project management skills, you will bring well developed negotiation, interpersonal and written skills. Your leaderships skills allow you to focus on project delivery whilst liaising and managing external Project Contractors and championing quality and safety culture across each project. As an experienced and reliable Construction Supervisor who is committed, dedicated, and customer focused, this role will see you provide a high level of community consultation and quality service delivery.
This is a Permanent Full Time, salary from $99,642.07 up to $124,357.48 per annum plus superannuation and an operational Motor Vehicle.
What you will be doing
As the Construction Supervisor, you will oversee the efficient and safe delivery of projects within the construction of our building and civil engineering assets. This includes:
Design Capability - undertake constructability reviews of design and project documentation and provide feedback to designers and project managers.
Construction - including reviewing and monitoring progress and quality of works, maintain detail site records of the works, review of progress claims, variations and extensions of time claims, ensure works are undertaken safely in accordance with contractors WHS documentation, oversee works to minimise potential public liability risk and protect public assets.
Stakeholder Management - Communication with external contractors on agreed targets, accountabilities and expectations, attend progress meetings with internal and external stakeholders and respond to requests and enquiries as required.
WHS - including providing knowledge, ensuring safe practices, documentation, risk management activities and ensuring the safety of all staff, tradesmen, contractors and members of the public is delivered on all construction projects.
About you
As a Construction Supervisor, you enjoy mentoring and supporting your team to deliver projects safely. You've been involved in commercial and/or public building jobs, utilising your trade qualifications, tertiary qualifications, frontline management or equivalent and extensive experience allowing you to provide your knowledge, skills and experience to the team.
Your committed to quality management principles and bring the ability to coordinate project works. You have high level construction management skills, developing, implementing and monitoring progress to completion. Ensuring monitoring and documenting of project progress, you have the demonstrated ability to use computer applications eg spreadsheets, database and word processing, project Gantt charts.
Benefits of working at Council:
We provide flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and flex- you just need to ask!
We are value-led, support and encourage personal and professional growth, recognise and reward performance and embrace change.
We provide generous leave provisions including 5 weeks annual leave per year of service
Long Service Leave after 5 years
We are committed to providing a safe working environment for all, (everyone, every day and everywhere) and make available wellbeing programs to support mental, physical and social wellbeing of our staff to be at their best.
Access to Fitness Passport
Interested?
For more information, click on Apply to be redirected to Wollongong City Council's E-recruitment site.
Contact Sam Alger, Senior Project Manager Civil, on (02) 42278860 for questions related to the job
For assistance in submitting your application, please contact the Talent Acquisition Team on (02) 4227 7065.
Applications close 11:59pm, Tuesday 28 January 2025.