Operations Manager

UGL Pty Limited; Orange City Council; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

UGL Regional Linx is seeking an experienced Operations Manager to lead rail project delivery, ensuring safety, schedule, profitability and client satisfaction across NSW operations.

You will lead a diverse team and subcontractors, manage project costs and procurement, mitigate risks, maintain quality, report progress to clients, and uphold the governance, values and safety standards that define our organisation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in leadership roles within rail project/operations delivery.
• Bachelor engineering qualification or equivalent experience.
• Senior leadership experience in rail operations/construction/maintenance.
• Experience managing budgets and contracts.

Responsibilities

• The safe delivery of projects to meet schedule, budget and performance requirements.
• Management of project costs, revenue, margins, with regular cost-to-complete reviews.
• Identify risks and opportunities and implement mitigation measures.
• Ensure delivered products/services are fit for purpose and compliant with requirements.
• Report project status and communicate with clients regularly.
• Lead workforce including UGL Regional Linx team and subcontractors.
• Authorize project-related procurement and subcontracting decisions.
• Direct training needs and project organisational structure.
• Develop and maintain positive client relationships at necessary levels.
• Ensure compliance with record-keeping and governance requirements.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Budget management

Safety management

Rail operations

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor engineering qualification

Job description

UGL Regional Linx 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. UGL Regional Linx (UGLRL) is a subsidiary of UGL, headquartered in Orange, NSW, with regional depots throughout the state. We focus on creating job opportunities in regional and rural communities, with over 85% of our workforce based in regional NSW. We manage the CRN – Country Regional Network, ensuring safe transportation of people and goods across NSW.

Job Purpose

The role of the Operations Manager is to manage, plan and control the allocated projects to ensure safe, compliant and cost-effective delivery for the client. This is to be achieved by actively leading the team ensuring safety, schedule, profitability and client satisfaction meet client and UGL Regional Linx expectations. Achievement is through the application of good business operating practices and the provision of sound, professional leadership and management. A proactive, performance and results orientated style is key in this role, this is all to be enacted under the guidance of the visions and values of UGL Regional Linx.

Key Responsibilities

• The safe delivery of projects to meet schedule, budget and performance requirements
• Management of the project costs, revenue, margins, with regular cost to complete reviews undertaken and reported to management
• Clear understanding of the risks and opportunities within the project/s and treatment measures required to mitigate risks
• Ensure the quality of delivered product and or services is fit for use and all required documentation is completed according to UGL Regional Linx and Client requirements
• Report project status to the customer and provide regular communications in regard to any day to day issues relating to the project/s.
• Management of the workforce undertaking the project, both UGL Regional Linx team and subcontractors
• Authorise project related manufacturing, procurement and expense requests in accordance with the delegation policy.
• Recommend purchase agreements and sub-contracts for all suppliers/sub-contractors.
• Direct project training-program requirements.
• Direct project organisational structure and lead behaviours.
• Develop and maintain a positive relationship with the customer at necessary levels within their organisation.
• Identify the legislative, industrial, political, cultural and economic environment within which the contract would be performed and the impact of this.
• 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
• Support the continuous risk management of operations
• Ensure compliance with all record keeping requirements

Qualifications

• 10 years of relevant experience in a leadership capacity within rail project and operations delivery and or leadership roles, with a significant applied contextual experience in delivering high value high risk O&M projects.
• Bachelor engineering qualification and/or extensive experience appropriate to the responsibilities of the position.
• Demonstrated experience operating at a senior leadership level within the rail operations/construction/contracting/maintenance industry.
• Extensive experience and managing and leading a team of people.
• Extensive experience in the preparation and management of budgets and contracts

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.

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