Robert Bruce

Engineering Construction General Management

• Lead the design and delivery projects involving approximately 140 apartments for various entities with a particular focus on high yield NDIS properties.
• Areas of work included project feasibility studies, project strategy development, design coordination and consultant team management, scope formation, tender preparation, contract negotiation, project execution and ultimately project close out and completion.
• Most recent activity: Completion of design for 35 high end apartments in Belrose with a gross realisation of $73.5 million.
• Measurable results: delivery of approximately $65 million profitability to the company and investors.

Multiple specific roles for various entities:

Electric Vehicle Charging and infrastructure

• Design and Rollout Plan for nationwide Electric Vehicle Charging project
• This involved a fundamental market analysis of the EV market and associated infrastructure, in particular of current market activities, where there were deficiencies in the market and how those opportunities could be exploited.
• Specific areas addressed were market alignment with customer expectations and requirements, installation funding, design improvements, operability and uptime improvements and rollout programming.

Australia Egg Bank

• Australia’s only specialised Fertility Preservation and Fertility Replacement business. If you have heard about egg freezing you have heard of what we do
• This involved taking a theoretical concept brought to me by a number of medical experts who were seeking assistance to raise funds.
• In order to seek funds I had to develop a thorough understanding of the business technically, emotionally, financially and biosecurity wise
• Ultimately as a result of my initial efforts I was offered the role of General Manager and created the business from scratch.
• The business was ultimately sold to a key IVF industry player for a significant profit

Contract General Manager

• 3 Individual maternity cover and long service leave cover contracts

Project Management Office (PMO) deployment

• Various contract roles implementing PMO methodologies
• Industries include: Engineering, Construction, FMCG and IT

Multiple roles across the Leighton Holdings (now CIMIC) group of companies

Leighton Contractors, Group Manager - Defence Eastern Division Jan 2010 - Jan 2012

• Development of a specific Defence business unit within Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd
• Market analysis, Strategic Plan development & implementation
• Budget and Balance Sheet accountability
• Delivered approximately $450 million of works

John Holland Services, Group Manager (including John Holland Aviation Services and John Holland Defence)
Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

Aviation

• Mergers and Acquisition work to grow John Holland's footprint beyond traditional construction markets
• Undertook the M&A work to purchase the engineering business of Ansett Airlines
• Accountability for corporate integration
• Strategic business development to the global aviation market including multiple airlines (particularly Qantas, Virgin Australia, Singapore Airlines) as well as manufacturers Airbus (Toulouse), Boeing (Seattle) and Embraer (Brazil)

Defence

• Developed strategy for a specific Defence Construction capability unit
• Completed plan handed over to relevant personnel for implementation

Thiess (HMAS Albatross), Managing Contractor's Representative (Project Director)
Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

• HMAS Albatross Stage 3 Redevelopment
• $250 million project
• Classified facilities including communications, security, training and other key Top Secret facilities

John Holland, Group Manager, Development
Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

• Group wide business development role working with business units
• Strategic market analysis
• Tendering leadership

John Holland Telecommunications, Manager – Special Projects
Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

• Project Management of multiple projects in the telecommunications industry sector
• Network construction
• Equipment deployment
• Development of tunnel/underground telecommunications specialty business

• Supply Chain analysis and optimisation role including implementation of Just in Time inventory management across the wholesale network and various projects involving the retail network
• Approximate CapEx $160million

Senior Project Manager Jan 2000 - Jan 2003

• Initially a 3 month contract project management role to deliver the Sydney 2000 Olympic Broadcast became a long term engagement as various managers engaged my services to undertake projects in their business unit including realignment of every phone service nationally and various privatisation sale projects.
• Deployment of new network critical technologies
• Training of Telstra in house staff

Marketing Strategy Manager Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

• Based on work undertaken in the Project Manager role I was redeployed to a role undertaking a fundamental review of the entire telecommunications market and how Telstra could legitimately respond to new market entrants whilst also shaping the market
• Board level engagement
• Key Consultants engaged with: McKinsey, Bain, Boston

SAP Manufacturing Team Leader 1997-2000

• Design of the SAP schema and templates for implementation throughout Goodman Fielder as part of the overall billion dollar IT upgrade
• Module responsibility included Manufacturing, Plant maintenance

SAP Project Manager Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

• Promotion from the previous role to become the Project Delivery Manager tasked with implementation delivery of the SAP system through additional business units.