For over 90 years, Fulton Hogan has been delivering high-quality infrastructure to improve the lives of people every day. Our 10,000+ team works in a range of environments, creating, connecting, and caring for communities across Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific.

What’s on offer?

Based in Mackay, this role supports our infrastructure services business by leading laboratory operations that underpin the delivery of high-quality construction materials and project outcomes across the region.

As Laboratory

Foreperson, you will oversee day-to-day testing activities, coordinate laboratory resources, and support compliance with project specifications, quality requirements, and safety standards. Working closely with operational and project teams, you will play a key role in ensuring reliable testing, accurate reporting, and continuous improvement across our laboratory function.

In this position you will be responsible for:

- The asphalt laboratory operations and possible regional mobile and fixed sites.
- Supervision of laboratory staff, laboratory assets and plant requirements, including engaging, training and developing laboratory staff.
- Ensuring laboratory and production facility compliance with NATA, and Department of Main Roads Construction Materials Testing Supplier Registration System, including annex laboratories.
- Ensuring compliance with all statutory health, safety and environmental requirements.
- Supervise, train and undertake compliance testing for samples of aggregate, asphalt, and bitumen.
- Ensuring compliance testing and mix designs are within the required specifications and timeframes.
- Maintaining a high level of internal and external customer/stakeholder communication and relations.
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How will you connect to the role?





You will need to demonstrate experience and knowledge in construction laboratories (asphalt, aggregates and bitumen) and have attained NATA signatory status for test methods.

Including

- Comprehensive knowledge of laboratory and production facility calibration requirements.
- Sound knowledge of Queensland test methods and Australian Standards for laboratories.
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite with QESTLab desirable.
- Demonstrated commitment to collaborative, ethical behaviour in a client-facing environment.
- Strong leadership and people skills with excellent communication skills.Ability to interpret and apply policies, procedures and relevant legislation and a keen eye for detail.
- Demonstrated skills in research, evaluation, interpretation and delivery of data.

This is a full time position, which may require working nights, weekends and, on occasion work away from home.
- Want to be rewarded for the good work you do? Apply now to learn more about the applicable hourly rate and allowances.
- Looking for a company that places people at the heart of everything? Our Living Safely culture ensures that we care for ourselves, each other and the communities that we work in.
- Keen to progress your career? We invest in our people’s career development and provide pathways in the form of apprenticeships, traineeships, or certificate(s) opportunities. If additional tickets and licenses are required, we can help with that too.undefined




- Never worked in our industry before? We open new doors for people with transferable skills and experiences, helping them to thrive in the world of infrastructure construction. Where applicable, we provide training and support to help you succeed in the role.undefinedLooking to enhance your wellbeing? We offer benefits, including corporate health and fitness programs, health insurance discounts, personal banking support, a range of retailer discounts, and access to our Employee Assistance Program (including your immediate family).
- Want to help us better the communities we live and work in? Our purpose of creating, connecting, and caring for communities is more than a saying to us – it’s a way of thinking, working, and living because we're locals too, and seek to give back in ways that strengthen and build resilient communities.

Our people share the same set of values that keep us REAL. Respect, Energy and Effort, Attitude and Leadership are what we stand for at Fulton Hogan and encourage us to foster a diverse and inclusive culture where we listen to, care for, celebrate, and respect everyone.

We are committed to reconciliation and building and nurturing respectful relationships with First Nations peoples. Through our First Nations Engagement Strategy and Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), we aim to promote opportunities, cultural understanding and partnerships that celebrate and acknowledge the contributions of Indigenous communities.

If our REAL values resonate with you, please submit an application for the position.

If you’re not sure that you meet 100% of the selection criteria, that’s okay, we would still like to hear from you and potentially discuss how your skills could be utilised at Fulton Hogan.

📌 Laboratory Foreperson (Farleigh)
🏢 Fulton Hogan
📍 Farleigh