Project Manager

Reports To: Head of Project Delivery
Location: Brisbane, Australia

Purpose of the Role

The Project Manager provides professional project management services to support the development, award, and successful delivery of automated solutions for existing and current customers. They are the primary contact for the Company's clients and third parties and have the direct responsibility, authority, and accountability for ensuring that the work is undertaken in accordance with the client and Company specifications and processes.

The Project Manager provides leadership to the project core teams and the business to ensure contracts are delivered on time, within budget and to agreed specifications so that the Company exceeds customer expectations and satisfies contractual obligations.

Contribution to Corporate Success

The Project Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of customer projects from initial support to the sales team through to final acceptance by the customer and handover to the Company's ongoing services team where required. They are responsible for delivering projects safely, within budget, to the agreed schedule, to the expected quality, and to the complete satisfaction of the customer.

The Project Manager's performance contributes to the profitability of the company and supports continued business with the client.

Standards of Success

- Deliver projects safely, within budget, to the agreed schedule, to the expected quality, and to the satisfaction of the client
- Lead a project team to deliver a project effectively and efficiently
- Collaborate with Sales to support the definition of solutions, plans, and estimates for proposals




- Gain and maintain a good relationship with the customers
- Manage and achieve required project KPIs

Tasks and Responsibilities

- Lead automated warehouse projects, adhering to the project management reporting and financial controls processes
- Manage the commercial and technical risks of the project
- Provide leadership and support to the project core team
- Ensure Health, Safety, Environment and Wellbeing policies are implemented at project sites, consistent with the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Work Health and Safety Regulations 2011 (or the applicable state or territory equivalent), and that the Company meets its duties as a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU)
- Ensure project resources and costs are within agreed budgets and timescales
- Generate the integrated project plan and agree work stream plans
- Deliver the project management processes, including project reporting and financial controls
- Ensure that project implementation objectives are met in a timely and efficient manner in accordance with Company quality and safety procedures
- Ensure compliance with quality processes and be accountable for the maintenance of the registers and master files for the project
- Be the primary customer interface on a day-to-day basis
- Manage project issues in a timely manner




- Manage proposed changes to the agreed project scope, timescales and budgets
- Ensure project completion, acceptance and handover criteria have been achieved as per the Company's contractual obligations
- Define the project meetings schedule and the lines of communication
- Coach and mentor other project managers and project team members in the business where appropriate
- Contribute to the development of project management capabilities and to defining service offerings to the business
- Ensure compliance with Company policies and guidelines, including engagement of Business Support Functions such as Global Mobility
- Identify project risks and determine mitigation actions or contingency plans, with timely reporting and management
- Other tasks as directed by your Line Manager. This summary of Tasks and Responsibilities is not exhaustive.

Key Requirements

Required

- Experience managing projects in an engineering, manufacturing or similar industry
- Articulate, with good customer-facing and stakeholder management skills
- Proven ability to lead project teams in a technical environment
- Background in the engineering automation industry
- Ability to work away from home across Australia on average 25% of working days a year, with flexibility during peak periods
- Current Australian driver license
- General Construction Induction Card (White Card) or willingness to obtain before site attendance
- Right to work in Australia

Preferred

- History of working on high-complexity, high-value projects
- Formal project management qualification and exposure to formal methodologies, for example PMP (PMI),

📌 Project Manager (Brisbane)
🏢 Proactive Global
📍 Brisbane