Leading Hand
Closes: Feb 21, 2026
Job Description
Job Description
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 and New Zealand.
What's on offer?
Due to business growth, an opportunity has arisen for a Leading Hand to join our Infrastructure Services business based from our Warrnambool depot. With demonstrated road construction or asphalting experience highly regarded, you will support the laying crew Foreman to lead an asphalt laying team, ensuring that there is a strong commitment to workplace safety, quality, punctuality, reliability and respect for others.
This role is an integral part of a high performing asphalt laying team, and will assist coordinating work tasks, operating plant and equipment, supervising execution of roles and delivering high quality asphalt pavements. Working throughout the Southwestern region of Victoria, our team can travel within 3 hours of Warrnambool so there will be a requirement to work weekends, nights and away from home at times. We're looking for a hardworking ethos, reliability and honest and an individual with previous road construction experience.
Responsibilities will include:
- Ensure job site is safe for Fulton Hogan Employees, Sub–Contractors and the public.
- Encourages crew to contribute to achieving daily productivities in a safe manner.
- Proactively problem solve day to day issues on site
- Give feedback to foreman and crew on individual performance, quality and timeliness or work
- Identify any latent conditions that may impact quality of work and notify foreman
- Operate plant and equipment safely, equipment may include: skid-steer, steel or wheeled roller, asphalt paving machine, heavy vehicles.
- Perform manual labour tasks as required including, but not limited to, shovelling, raking etc.
- Identify and discuss any the following issues with the Foreman: safety, quality or environmental issues, traffic control, onsite congestion and vehicle movement
- Assist the foreman in managing the delivery of the job including resource allocation, anticipate next steps, spread additives, change machinery attachments, clean down gear etc.
How you will connect to the role:
- Previous asphalt experience highly regarded
- Road construction experience preferred
- Construction Induction card.
- An interest in working outdoors and in all weather conditions
- Previous experience in managing a team
- Forward thinking, ability to plan & coordinate works considering different factors (weather, team availability etc)
The pre-employment process will involve a medical check including drug and alcohol screening.
- 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.
- 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.
- Looking 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.
We celebrate and embrace diversity across our business and are committed to equal employment opportunities.
We believe in the value that diversity brings to our team and people who share our REAL values are encouraged to apply.
