Lead PMO Manager

Brisbane, QLD

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Lead PMO Manager to join a well-capitalised developer and owner of large-scale renewable energy infrastructure.

Working across one of Australia's most significant renewable energy developments, you'll play a pivotal role establishing and leading the Project Management Office throughout construction, ensuring governance, reporting, planning and project controls remain aligned across a complex, multi-disciplinary delivery setting.

This is an opportunity to work directly alongside senior project leadership and influence major investment decisions while helping deliver nationally significant clean energy infrastructure.

The Opportunity

Reporting into the senior project leadership team, the Lead PMO Manager will take ownership of the overall PMO function, providing structure, governance and visibility across all aspects of project delivery.

You'll become the central coordination point across engineering, commercial, project controls, construction and executive stakeholders, ensuring leadership has accurate, timely information to support critical decision making.

This role offers broad exposure across planning, governance, reporting, project controls and executive engagement on a major capital infrastructure project.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the overall Project Management Office function throughout construction.
- Establish and continuously improve project governance frameworks, reporting processes and delivery standards.
- Coordinate executive reporting, governance forums and decision-making processes.
- Ensure project schedules, cost reporting, risk registers and delivery milestones remain aligned across multiple workstreams.
- Oversee integrated project reporting, providing leadership with clear visibility of programme performance, key risks and emerging issues.
- Drive project controls coordination across schedule, cost, risk, change management and forecasting activities.




- Monitor critical project milestones and proactively identify potential delivery risks and schedule impacts.
- Maintain governance around key project decisions, actions, approvals and escalations.
- Work closely with engineering, construction, commercial and external delivery partners to ensure effective coordination across the project lifecycle.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across PMO systems, reporting and governance.

About You

We're interested in speaking with experienced PMO, Project Controls or Project Services professionals who have operated on complex infrastructure or renewable energy developments.

You'll ideally bring:

- Extensive experience leading PMO, project controls or project services functions on major infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of project governance, planning, scheduling and reporting.
- Experience working across complex EPC, construction or owner-side delivery environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate confidently with senior executives.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams across engineering, commercial and delivery functions.
- Strong organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- The ability to simplify complex project information into clear executive reporting.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in engineering, construction, project management or a related discipline.

Renewable energy, transmission, mining, oil & gas or major infrastructure experience will all be viewed favourably.

What's on Offer

- Join a long-term owner and developer with an exciting pipeline of major infrastructure projects.
- Play a key leadership role on a landmark renewable energy development.
- Work alongside an experienced executive team with genuine influence over project outcomes.
- Long-term career progression as the Australian portfolio continues to grow.
- Competitive salary package.
- Brisbane based role with occasional travel to project sites as required.

📌 PMO Manager (Brisbane)
🏢 Brunel
📍 Brisbane