Be part of a world-class team supporting vital Antarctic research and operations. The AIR Alliance brings together skilled professionals from Bouygues Construction Australia, The Australian Antarctic Division, Stantec and Mott MacDonald to deliver essential services in one of the most challenging and awe-inspiring environments on Earth. If you’re ready to push boundaries, work with cutting-edge projects, and make a real impact, this is your opportunity.

About The Role

The Construction Manager – Buildings is responsible for leading and coordinating all building construction activities across assigned projects within the Antarctic Infrastructure Renewal Alliance (AIR Alliance) program. The role provides leadership throughout the planning, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover phases, ensuring safe, productive, and high-quality project delivery.

The Construction Manager leads multidisciplinary delivery teams, subcontractors, suppliers, and key stakeholder interfaces to achieve project objectives in accordance with program schedules, budgets, contractual requirements, and quality standards. The role is accountable for construction performance, site coordination, risk management, logistics integration, and fostering a strong safety culture, while ensuring completed assets are successfully commissioned and transitioned into operational use.

The role also requires periodic deployment to Antarctica to oversee and monitor construction activities, verify that works are being delivered in accordance with project requirements, and provide onsite leadership and support to delivery teams. While deployed, the Construction Manager is responsible for building and maintaining effective working relationships with station personnel,



Australian Antarctic Division representatives, and other key stakeholders to ensure successful integration of construction activities within the station environment and support the achievement of broader operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

- Delivery of coordinated, buildable and NCC-compliant structural, civil and multidisciplinary building outcomes.
- Achievement of design, procurement, construction, certification and handover milestones.
- Effective management of consultants, subcontractors, suppliers and technical reviewers.
- Maintain design intent, compliance and technical assurance through construction and handover.
- Development of procurement packages that optimise cost, schedule, and risk outcomes.
- Identification and mitigation of design and construction risks. Lead the planning, coordination and execution of construction activities for assigned works, ensuring delivery in accordance with approved safety, quality, programme and budget requirements.
- Develop and implement construction strategies, methodologies, staging plans, logistics plans and site establishment requirements to support efficient project delivery in remote and operational environments.
- Manage day-to-day construction delivery activities, supervising subcontractors, suppliers and site teams to ensure compliance with project specifications, drawings, permits and Alliance requirements.




- Monitor construction progress against programme milestones and productivity targets, identifying delays, constraints and risks and implementing corrective actions to maintain schedule commitments.
- Coordinate interfaces between design, procurement, construction, commissioning, logistics and operational stakeholders to facilitate seamless project execution.
- Lead construction planning meetings, daily pre-starts, coordination workshops and subcontractor performance reviews.
- Review and approve construction work packs, ITPs, SWMS, lift studies, staging plans and temporary works proposals to ensure safe and effective execution of works.
- Drive a culture of safety excellence and ensure all construction activities are undertaken in compliance with legislative requirements, Alliance procedures and client expectations.
- Manage construction quality outcomes, ensuring inspections, testing, defect management, commissioning and handover activities are completed in accordance with project requirements.
- Oversee workforce planning and resource allocation, ensuring labour, plant, equipment and specialist subcontractor resources are available to meet project commitments.
- Support commercial management through monitoring subcontractor performance, assessing variations, reviewing progress claims and identifying cost risks and opportunities.
- Provide construction leadership and mentoring to Project Engineers, Site Engineers, Supervisors and subcontractor management teams.
- Lead constructability reviews throughout design development and procurement phases to improve safety, programme, cost and operational outcomes.
- Manage site logistics, material

📌 Construction Manager (Hobart)
🏢 Bouygues Construction Australia
📍 Hobart