As a Senior Project Manager youll be responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of mining and water infrastructure projects ensuring effective management of scope cost schedule quality risk safety and stakeholder expectations.
Youll work within broader program and portfolio environments collaborating with project directors technical specialists contractors and clients to ensure individual projects align with wider program objectives.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Project Leadership: Lead projects through the full lifecycle from initiation and planning through design procurement construction commissioning and close-out.
- Project Delivery: Establish and manage project execution plans delivery strategies budgets schedules resources and governance arrangements.
- Contractor Management: Drive contractor performance across safety productivity quality resourcing progress and contractual compliance identifying and addressing underperformance early.
- Project Controls & Reporting: Maintain oversight of project performance including cost schedule risk change and progress reporting providing clear and reliable information to clients and program leadership.
- Risk & Governance: Lead project risk management assurance change control and governance processes ensuring emerging issues are proactively managed and escalated.
- Technical & Quality Assurance: Work with engineering and technical teams to ensure design integrity constructability quality and compliance throughout delivery.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build trusted relationships with clients contractors consultants regulators and operational stakeholders.
- Program Integration: Manage project interfaces dependencies and shared resources ensuring alignment with broader program and portfolio priorities.
- Safety Leadership: Champion a strong safety culture ensuring appropriate controls are embedded across design procurement construction and commissioning.
Qualifications :
Youre an established project delivery professional who combines strong technical and commercial capability with the confidence to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage complex contractor relationships.
Youll ideally bring:
- 1015 years experience in project management and major project delivery.
- Demonstrated experience delivering projects across mining and water infrastructure.
- Experience working in both client-side and contractor-side environments.
- A strong understanding of major program management environments and multi-project portfolios.
- Proven capability managing multidisciplinary teams across engineering procurement commercial project controls and construction.
- Demonstrated experience managing contractor performance including progress productivity safety quality and contractual compliance.
- Strong project controls capability including cost management scheduling forecasting risk and change management.
- Experience with procurement contract administration variations claims and commercial negotiations.
- Experience managing projects through design construction commissioning and operational handover.
- Exposure to brownfield or operational environments will be highly regarded.
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Engineering Project Management Construction Management or a related discipline.
Youll also bring a practical delivery-focused mindset strong stakeholder management skills and the confidence to make decisions challenge performance and navigate competing priorities in complex project environments.
Additional Information :
Why youll love working with us:
- Flexible work arrangements including alternative start/finish times part-time job-sharing and hybrid work options
- Purchase up to 6 weeks additional annual leave per year
- Volunteer and representation leave
- Flex public holidays swap Easter or other holidays for ones that suit you better
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