Construction Technical Officer

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The Construction Technical Officer will ensure new civil works and treatment plants meet the required delivery outcomes and customer service levels expected by our major clients. You will be supporting optimal construction delivery with regards to time, quality and cost through promotion of efficiency and innovation, safety and environmental best practice, including resource leadership, direction and capacity building. 

Based out of Adelaide CBD and travelling to sites when needed, this role includes providing technical advice and guidance to the construction and project team on enabling works requirements, civil works, mechanical & electrical works and commissioning/handover process. 

Further to this, the Construction Technical Officer is responsible for the following; 

• Ensuring all quality requirements of the project are carried out by the contractor in accordance with the technical specification and relevant technical Australian standards and guidelines. 

• Ensuring the project complies with necessary internal and external standards, acts and regulations, guidelines and design requirements are met. 

• Work with Senior Project Managers to ensure project risks and opportunities are identified and assessed and necessary actions are taken. 

• Review of project activities against schedule and reported progress on a weekly basis.

• Monitoring of construction budget and support progress and final expenditure predictions being timely and accurate. 

Qualifications and Key Skills 

• Demonstrated knowledge and application of construction and health, safety and environmental practices, standards and quality assurance methods 

• Ability to use and develop computer applications including project scheduling, spreadsheets and analytics e.g. Power BI, field applications for mobile working and reporting 

• Experience in construction, commissioning and program reviews and quality assurance, cost and time estimates and scheduling for construction projects 

Infrastructure Solutions Australia 

KBR’s Infrastructure Solutions Australia business works with customers across the nation to deliver projects that create a better, more sustainable and technology-enabled future for all Australians. Through trusted partnerships with our customers, our best and brightest deliver innovative solutions across the transport, water and environment, buildings, defence infrastructure and program management and construction consultancy markets.  

We are a team of over 1200 diverse, flexible, adaptable and highly skilled people who provide a wide range of professional consulting services to the private and public sector. Our high-performing teams are digitally connected and geographically diversified to match the changing characteristics of our principal markets and have the expertise to serve our clients’ requirements through the full project lifecycle. 

We are committed to social and environmental sustainability and delivering projects with a digital mindset that drives innovation within our business, for our customers and stakeholders.   

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