Track Build Supervisor

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Great leave benefits

Career progression

Learning and development

Inclusion and diversity

Flexible working

Job summary

John Holland is seeking an experienced Track Build Supervisor to join the Sydney Metro West Linewide Project. You will coordinate on-site teams to deliver work in line with plans and schedules within time and budget constraints.

The role emphasizes leadership in safety, collaboration with subcontractors, and the ability to read and implement final designs while maintaining cost control and risk management on major rail construction sites.

Qualifications

• Proven track build experience across major rail projects.
• Experience with top-down track slab construction is preferred.
• Strong safety focus and risk management.
• Experience supervising subcontractors, suppliers and direct labour.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate on-site teams and subcontractors to achieve outcomes.
• Lead health, safety and environment management on site.
• Develop short-term construction programs and plan daily/weekly work.
• Maintain stakeholder communication with key personnel.
• Produce progress reports and shift handovers for project updates.
• Monitor budgets and commercial costs within authority.
• Review plans, drawings and final designs for constructability.
• Ensure subcontractor compliance with contractual mechanisms.
• Identify and mitigate risks prior to works.

Skills

Track Build experience

Top-down track slab construction

Rail project experience

Safety focus

People and performance management

Education

Diploma/Building Construction

Trade Qualification or similar

Job description

About The Project:

Sydney Metro West is a transformational 24 km underground railway connecting Sydney CBD to Parramatta, with stations at Westmead, Parramatta, Sydney Olympic Park, North Strathfield, Burwood North, Five Dock, The Bays, Pyrmont and Hunter Street.

The Linewide package connects the entire system, delivering the critical rail infrastructure and technology that bring the metro network to life.

Project offices are located across several Sydney locations including the CBD, Clyde, Rosehill, The Bays and Burwood North.

The Role:

John Holland is seeking experienced Track Build Supervisors to join the Sydney Metro West Linewide Project.

This role will see you coordinate on-site teams to deliver relevant scopes of work in accordance with project plans and specifications to achieve effective performance in accordance with detailed short-term programs and schedules within the designated time and budget.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the work and performance of multiple teams and subcontractors to achieve outcomes.
• Provide and take leadership responsibility in health, safety, and environment management.
• Contribute to development of work methods and rolling short term construction programs and plan daily/weekly production work.
• Build strong internal and external stakeholder management through positive, proactive, and professional communication to keep key personnel informed.
• Complete progress reporting, and activities, reports for shift handovers and consistent regular reporting to the Superintendent or Project Manager
• Ensure compliance of commercial and financial costs including budgets and the implications of directions within your authority limits
• Read and understand plans, review design documentation, read drawings, and provide constructive review and implementing of final designs
• Ensure contractual mechanisms of subcontractors
• Identify and mitigate risks prior to works commencing, communicate with and engage relevant stakeholders to control risk and contribute to build a risk management culture.
• Select, train and develop leading hands and ensure the observance of safety, other work standards, and fair and reasonable application of industrial agreements.
• Maintain effective consultation with various workers’ representatives and committees on industrial and safety subjects handling issues as they arise and referring major issues to the Project Manager

About You:

Qualifications:

• Trade Qualification or similar.
• Qualifications and training, e.g. Diploma, Building/Construction.

Experience:

• Demonstrated Track Build previous experience.
• Top-down track slab construction.
• Major project experience across Construction, Infrastructure and Rail.
• Substantial Industry experience in Trade and Construction.
• Technical competency and understanding in the area that supervising.
• Skill in review of design documents, ability to understand drawings, provide constructability review and implement final design plans.
• Strong understanding and focus for Safety.
• People and Performance Management of subcontractors, suppliers, and direct labour.

As Part Of The Team, You Can Help 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.

Offer:

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.

• 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.