David Cocking

Experience

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  Austrak Pty Ltd

  Mar 2002 - Nov 2003

  Factory Engineer

  •Management and co-ordination of Consultants providing technical support.•Project engineer solutions and multidiscipline interfaces to handover and acceptance phase.•Provide innovation and improvements to current business and operations.•Undertake cost benefit analysis.•Manage construction supervision, contract administration, budgeting and cost review.•Strong leadership and management capabilities coupled with the ability to drive and guide change.•Possess energy, analytical skills, a commitment to high performance standards and be an influential and excellent communicator. Show less

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  Thiess Hochtief Joint Venture

  Dec 2003 - Mar 2005

  Senior Project Engineer

  •Managing all professional, technical and commercial issues across all disciplines to ensure the satisfactory construction of the project.•Managing subcontractors, consultants and suppliers in accordance with the contract requirements ensuring high performance in terms of time, cost and quality.•Managing subcontractors, consultants and suppliers in accordance with the Ministers Conditions of Approval within the National Park.•Ensuring the site is appropriately resourced in terms of personnel, plant and equipment.•Identifying design issues and working with the design team to ensure suitable design data and practical and effective design. Show less

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  AbiGroup-Leighton Joint Venture (ALJV)

  Mar 2005 - Dec 2005

  Senior Project Engineer

  •Managing all professional, technical and commercial issues across all disciplines, ensuring the efficient handover of work sections and phases to construct the project within time, cost and quality.•Assess and manage risk in multiple work areas to promote a safe work culture and ensure legislative compliance.

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  Leighton Contractors

  Dec 2005 - Jul 2010

  •Successfully assisting the Project Team from Project Definition Phase through TCE, TOC to deliver the Civil Works.•Creating and developing a successful Civil Construction Team, managing all professional, technical and commercial issues to construct the project within time, cost and quality. •Managing all professional, technical and commercial issues across all disciplines, ensuring the efficient handover of work sections and phases to construct the project within time, cost and quality.•Assess and manage risk in multiple work areas to promote a safe work culture and ensure legislative compliance. •Accountable for the preliminary construction program for Lidcombe Station which involved utility relocation, earthworks, platform construction, OHW and signalling works. •Coordination of the design-construction interfaces, ensuring an integrated approach to utility management within a rail environment including possession planning and construction sequencing.

  • Area Manager - Civil

    Sept 2007 - Jul 2010

  • Senior Project Engineer - Section Manager

    Mar 2006 - Sept 2007

  • Senior Project Engineer

    Dec 2005 - Mar 2006
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  Laing O'Rourke

  Mar 2010 - May 2014

  •Ensuring Business and Project goals were achieved.•Nurturing multi-disciplinary teams with competing agendas. •Leading delivery teams during a rapidly changing environment.•Ensuring competitive procurement within a culture of best practice.•Providing evaluation judgements based upon analysis of factual and qualitative information.•Development and implementation of strategies to identify, locate and minimise disruptions to all stakeholders. •Managing key delivery areas of schedule, cost, scope, stakeholders•Developing a successful Civil Construction Team, managing all professional, technical and commercial issues to construct the project within time, cost and quality.•Leading the project safety culture and awareness.•Leading the project team, liaising with people from varied disciplines and build relationships to deliver safe and reliable systems.

  • Construction Manager

    Apr 2013 - May 2014

  • Project Manager

    Mar 2010 - Apr 2013
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  Ford Civil Contracting

  May 2014 - Jan 2015

  Senior Estimator

  Provide cost and program estimates to Tier 1 Contractors for RMS, Defence and private contracts.

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  Aurizon

  Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

  Construction Manager - Client-side

  Client-side progressing the construction build of a Long Term Train Facility in a challenging geotechnical, environmental and commercial landscape. Works includes RMS access road, 8 rail roads, extensive M&E works, ground improvement works, Project close-out, maintenance schedules, commissioning and handover to operational readiness.

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  EJC Engineering & Project Management Service

  May 2016 - now

  Project Management Consultant

  • Determination of project completions for Maintenance, Network and Safety, Major Projects, Land Use and Private Development Projects.• Liaison with Area Maintenance Managers – Upper Hunter, Newcastle, Central Coast to complete all asset acceptance documentation for 2016-17 Projects.• Liaison with and training of various Project Managers within RMS on asset acceptance.