Maintenance Superintendent

UGL; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UGL Transport in Australia is seeking a Superintendent to supervise, coordinate and deliver significant scope across the site, ensuring maintenance and capital works meet contract requirements, and achieve client satisfaction with a focus on safety and quality.

You will lead site teams, coordinate with Asset Engineers and Maintenance Planners, manage schedules and progress claims, and drive continuous improvement while upholding QA/QC and environmental standards across the project.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a large engineering or maintenance project environment.
• In-depth knowledge of concepts, processes and activities.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills; ability to influence stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and prioritise multiple tasks in a fast-paced setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and supervising others.
• Attend site meetings with senior management to discuss progress, safety and environment.
• Coordinate with site management contractors to resolve technical matters.
• Attend progress and safety meetings; provide advice where necessary.
• Supervise site personnel and ensure QA/QC, safety, and environmental procedures are followed.
• Develop and refine maintenance schedules and manage progress against plans.
• Oversee progress payment claims, variations, and cost monitoring.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Negotiation

Scheduling

Coordination

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

UGL Transport is a diversified transport company delivering critical assets and essential services that sustain and enhance the environment in which we live. Our capabilities extend across a broad range of services and whole-of-life solutions across the Transport sector, utilising world leading, sustainable and innovative technologies. We partner with some of the world’s largest blue-chip companies, government agencies, private enterprise, and public institutions.

We are guided by our Company values which extend to all leaders and team members and across all departments within the company.

Job Purpose

The Superintendent must be responsible for supervising, coordinating and delivering significant scope as part of the agreed client services and oversee all maintenance and capital works activities across the site. They must ensure the successful implementation of the Project to the satisfaction of contract requirements, in relation:

• Quality of products and services
• On schedule
• Client satisfaction
• Meet agreed KPI targets
• Achieving tendered profit margin or better by applying the company quality, safety, environment and training management process to maintenance activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and supervising others.
• Attends site meetings with senior management to discuss progress of project, safety and the environment, IR and other project issues within the project area.
• Liaises with site management contractors for resolution of site technical matters.
• Attends progress meetings, safety meetings and contractor meetings as required. Provides dvice where necessary.
• Supervises and directs site personnel in the project area.
• Works with the safety and quality co-ordinators to ensure the project has safety plans and procedures as well as operational policy procedures in place.
• Reviews and maintains job safety analysis for all maintenance activities
• Ensures all maintenance work is carried out to the approved maintenance plans and specifications and that correct work practices are engaged at all times.
• Ensures efficient scheduling, planning, labour management and timely lodgement of claims.
• Develops project schedules in collaboration with Asset Engineers/Maintenance Planners to optimise manning levels and timely completion of contract works.
• Reviews progress of detailed maintenance schedules for all project maintenance activities
• Responsible for preparation of detailed work execution methods including approved planning and delivery of major maintenance and weekend possessions.
• Establish methods to monitor progress of site works enabling accurate assessment for progress claims and project appraisal forecasts.
• Reviews contractors progress payment claims, assists in evaluation of Contractors’ variation claims and provides check estimates for additional works.
• Maintains and implements a continuous improvement program for all site activities.
• Implements and monitors work practices and standards to ensure QA/QC, environmental and safe work procedures are adhered to.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 year’s experience in a large engineering or maintenance project environment.
• In-depth specialised knowledge of concepts, processes, and activities.
• Strong computer skills including the Microsoft Office suite of programs.
• 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

Diversity

We embrace diversity in all its forms—backgrounds, ideas, work styles, and perspectives. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strongly encourage applications from women, individuals with disabilities, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature-aged workers, and those from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Our selection process includes relevant screening checks such as national criminal history and pre-employment medical assessments, including drug and alcohol screening. REF:269879