Construction manager - Site Intetgrations & Commissioning

We are partnering with a major Australian industrial organisation delivering a substantial capital program within an established heavy manufacturing site in the Southern Highlands of NSW. We are seeking an experienced Construction Manager - Site Integration & Commissioning to take responsibility for bringing multiple capital project packages together through final construction, commissioning and transition into operations.
  
This is one of those roles where your title may currently be Construction Manager, Commissioning Manager, Project Manager, Project Engineer or Commissioning Superintendent.
  
What matters most is that you understand what happens on the ground as construction reaches completion and individual systems need to come together, be tested, commissioned and handed over to the operating business.
  
This role is the interface between the site and the project, including procedures, integration with management systems and ultimately commissioning and handover. It is important to note that  while a Project Manager could potentially do the role, its emphasis is much more heavily on construction and commissioning than conventional project management.  
  
What you'll be responsible for
You will coordinate final construction and commissioning activities across multiple project workstreams and ensure systems are ready to safely transition into operations.
  
Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead site integration across multiple capital project packages
• Coordinate construction completion and commissioning activities
• Bring together mechanical, process, electrical and control systems
• Coordinate contractors and package managers across complex interfaces
• Ensure systems are ready for testing and commissioning
• Manage commissioning readiness and completion requirements
• Coordinate staged tie-ins and shutdown activities
• Support energisation and plant start-up
• Coordinate system ramp-up and transition into operations
• Drive punch-list and defect closure
• Ensure commissioning documentation and procedures are complete
• Coordinate closely with engineering, project and operational teams
• Identify interface risks before they impact commissioning
• Maintain an integrated view of commissioning progress and readiness
• Drive contractors toward safe, timely completion and handover

The role ultimately connects the project delivery team with the operating business, ensuring what has been constructed can actually be safely operated, maintained and handed over. This operational interface was specifically emphasised in the client briefing.  
  
This is a hands-on site role - Although there will naturally be planning, coordination, documentation and reporting responsibilities, this is not intended to be an office-based PM position.  You will work closely with contractors day to day, and during active construction and commissioning periods a significant proportion of your time will be spent on site.
  
The organisation has dedicated safety support, but the Construction Manager remains responsible for ensuring work is safely executed within the live operating environment.
  
What we're looking for - Ideally you will bring:

• 5-10 years' experience across industrial construction, commissioning or project delivery
• Strong experience working within a live or brownfield plant
• Demonstrated commissioning and plant start-up capability
• Experience coordinating several contractors simultaneously
• Strong multidisciplinary systems integration experience
• Exposure to mechanical, process, electrical and control interfaces
• Shutdown and tie-in experience
• Strong understanding of work control and site safety systems
• Experience transitioning projects from construction into operations
• Practical problem-solving and strong site leadership capability
• Confidence working across contractors, engineers and operational stakeholders
• Experience in cement manufacturing is advantageous but not essential.  Exp in mining, minerals processing, power generation, bulk materials, manufacturing and other heavy industrial environments could be equally relevant and candidates are encouraged to apply. 
• An engineering or technical qualification in Mechanical, Electrical, Process or a related discipline is desirable but not mandatory when you have strong practical site and commissioning experience.  

So who could suit this role? 
We would particularly like to hear from people who have previously been responsible for taking a plant or major industrial system through:  Construction completion → systems integration → commissioning → energisation/start-up → operational handover.  You could currently be working as a Construction Manager | Commissioning Manager | Construction & Commissioning Manager | Commissioning Superintendent | Project Manager | Senior Project Engineer | Integration Manager | Start-Up Manager.
  
There is genuine scope to consider someone coming from a Project Manager background if you have the necessary construction and commissioning orientation.
  
The opportunity

• Rem: $180,000 + super
• Relocation Support Available
• Hybid role
• This is an opportunity to sit at the centre of a complex capital program rather than own just one isolated construction package.

You will bring together multiple project streams and play a key role in ensuring newly constructed assets move successfully from project delivery into reliable operation.  If you enjoy the final, complex stage of major industrial projects, when construction, commissioning, contractors, engineering and operations all converge, then this will be a particularly interesting assignment for you. 
  
For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please call Louisa Hinchen on 0459 991 061, or simply follow the link and apply now. All enquiries and applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
  
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