About the role

Reporting to the Electrical Operations Manager, the Senior Project Manager directs, coordinates, implements, executes, controls, and delivers the most complex projects with substantial budgets ensuring consistency with their strategy, commitments, and goals. This role will be responsible for ensuring projects run safely, efficiently, to schedule, budget and meet quality standards. As a figurehead role at Project level the Senior Project Manager is entrusted with representing and protecting core values & principles whilst fostering a team striving for continual improvement.

Key responsibilities

- Lead the end-to-end delivery of large and complex electrical projects, ensuring safety, quality, schedule and budget outcomes

- Manage contracts, procurement, financial reporting, progress claims, variations and cash flow forecasting

- Develop and implement project programmes, resource plans, and key management plans (SMP, QMP, CEMP, Commissioning)

- Assess and understand upstream contract requirements, highlight risk and opportunities and ensure the contract is administered correctly to minimise risk exposure

- Identify and implement contractual engagement of Subcontractors & Suppliers in accordance with the financial approval matrix

- Create explicit Procurement planning to ensure value for money procurement of materials and contractors

- Manage material lead times ensuring procurement for timely delivery on site

- Develop Project Programmes (gannt charts) to identify project sequence,



critical path and lead times

- Produce resource forecasting for internal Labour requirements

- Ensure all site resources (i.e. labour, machinery, materials, and subcontractors) are effectively used and monitored to achieve timely completion of projects on budget

About you

- Experience successfully managing large and/or complex electrical / construction industry projects

- Proven experience in risk management and mitigation enabling timely delivery of projects

- Proven experience in leading and managing large and diverse project teams comprising of staff, subcontractors, suppliers, and key stakeholders

- Ability to lead, coach and motivate teams to produce quality outcomes within tight timeframes, high risk environments or with technical challenges

- Applied knowledge of project management techniques and tools

- Sound contract law understanding

- Planning and organisational skills to ensure that the project remains on track

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Demonstrated proficiency in the use of desktop computers and an appropriate range of software applications, including Microsoft Word and Excel

- Proficient in project management software

About our client

Established in 1994. 30 years later the business proudly employs more than 130 personnel of diverse skills and backgrounds to deliver end to end electrical solutions for complex projects and assets across its four main pillars of; Design, Build, Commission & Maintain.

📌 Senior Project Manager (Electrical) (Canberra)
🏢 Anvara
📍 Canberra