General Manager - Major Project

THE FUTURE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.

General Manager – Major Project
Location – Sydney (NSW)

Start your career by making an impact and real connections with some of the most meaningful challenges around. When you join Honeywell, you become a member of our performance culture comprised of diverse leaders, thinkers, innovators, dreamers, and doers who are changing the future.

Make the Best You.

Working at Honeywell is not just creating incredible things. You will have the opportunity to work with our talented and friendly team of professionals and be part of a global team of future shapers.

Join Us and Make an Impact.

As a General Manager – Major Project, you will focus on Sales and Project delivery targets across the Major Project. Use all levers available to ensure that Projects LOB continues to grow through a talented, motivated, and accountable team. Close and seamless collaboration with the Sales organization is a requirement to ensure the required project sales growth is achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team by clearly communicating objectives and holding team members accountable for their performance and career growth.
• Monitor and maintain customer satisfaction levels, addressing and resolving any customer issues in a timely manner.
• Take ownership of financial performance for major projects, regularly reviewing and comparing estimates against actuals to enhance operational metrics.
• Drive cost reduction initiatives and maximize productivity through effective processes and engagement with the Supply Chain team, ensuring necessary tools and materials are available while managing inventory levels.
• Participate in the estimate review process to ensure accurate labor estimates and technical feasibility of projects, ensuring all subcontracts are complete and documented.
• Ensure proper resource planning and allocation across projects and sales, fostering collaboration and sharing of resources across districts.
• Oversee the performance management process, including conducting appraisals, coaching, training, and planning for the professional development of team members.
• Build an effective team culture that promotes organizational goals, encourages collaboration, and strengthens relationships with Service Leaders for seamless operations.
• Lead change management initiatives within the team, focusing on the implementation of agreed-upon strategies and improvements.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, and statutory regulations by maintaining a safe work environment, providing training, and upholding industry standards and company procedures.

Qualifications:

• BSc degree or equivalent technical or management experience desired.
• 12+ years’ experience in a team leadership role necessary.
• Thorough knowledge of construction projects field Operations, financial processes and General Management.
• Significant experience of leading major projects within an environment of complex regulations and procedures e.g. large and complex organisations.
• Comfortable with a fluid working environment, able to take your team with you in response to rapidly changing demands.
• Ability to rapidly establish a rapport with colleagues at every level, with highly developed influencing, coaching and interpersonal skills.
• Highly developed political acuity, with the ability and confidence to appropriately challenge and to successfully navigate ambiguity.
• Ability to analyse complex situations and generate concise evaluations and opinions, orally and in writing.
• Ability to use and present quantitative and qualitative data (for example, with regard to project risks and liabilities).
• Culturally sensitive with high emotional intelligence and the resilience to balance competing demands under pressure.

The Future Is What We Make It at Honeywell. From sustainable aviation fuel and life-saving healthcare sensors to collaborating on every NASA space mission since the 1950’s, over 100 years of innovation has always been driven by an investment in our people.

If you believe what happens tomorrow is determined by what we do today, you’ll love working at Honeywell.

Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer, and we support a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply. Honeywell is a proud advocate of the LGBTQ+ community and we are celebrating Pride Month in the Pacific by launching Pride Connect, our LGBTQ+ employee network, we encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community to apply to join our team of future shapers.