About the Role:

Working with the Project Managers, in-house Design Team, Project Engineers, Site Supervisors and Trades staff, the Construction Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of projects from concept to handover in a safe, timely and cost-effective manner, with a quality focus and adherence to company policy, customer expectations and project specifications. 

The Construction Manager is required to start in the new year and will report to the Project Manager as a key resource on our wastewater project based in Alkimos. 
  
You will bring:

• Extensive experience in a similar role in construction, preferably the water industry 
• Solid construction industry knowledge 
• A Diploma in Project or Construction Management 
• A Senior First Aid Certificate and a White Card – General Construction Industry Training Card 
• An ability to effectively lead and manage teams of people coupled with an ability to manage competing priorities and meet strict deadlines 
• Self-motivation and strong communication skills 
• Well-developed problem-solving skills  
• A strong safety and quality focus 
• An ability to influence others while making sound decisions 

About Guidera O’Connor:

From desalination plants providing clean water to Australian communities, to treatment facilities that return wastewater safely to the environment, Guidera O’Connor designs and delivers tailored solutions that make a real difference to people’s lives.

Guidera O’Connor designs, constructs, and commissions:

• Water treatment plants
• Pumping stations
• Chemical dosing systems
• Filtration
• Odour control
• Desalination plants
• Aquifer storage and recovery
• Reuse systems.

We work with customers across Australia, including:

• Water authorities
• Local government
• Mining and resources companies
• Private asset owners
• Head contractors
• Engineering organisations.

Our business is founded on five guiding principles: Care, Integrity, Passion, Respect, and Future, each of which inform our collaborative, innovative, solutions-focused approach.
More than infrastructure, we deliver value, creating the systems that make safe, clean water possible for people and communities across the country, now and into the future.

Our Benefits:

Guidera O’Connor offers a generous range of benefits to our employees, including:

• Additional annual leave for service milestones and 15 days personal leave each year
• Excellent employee referral bonus
• Company-funded wellbeing program supporting your health and wellbeing goals
• Paid parental leave and cultural leave
• Fortnightly pay
• Regular recognition and celebration of success

Our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging:

At Guidera O’Connor we respect and value a diverse, inclusive, and belonging workplace.  We strongly encourage applications from people of all genders, ages, and cultures.
We are committed to reconciliation action and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for all positions.
Further, we are committed to real progress toward gender equity in the engineering and construction
industry and strongly encourage applications from female candidates for all positions. 

Join us!

Please apply online. 
For more information about this opportunity, reach out to our recruitment team at careers@goc.net.au
Please note applications will only be accepted from candidates who have the right to work in Australia.