Salary/Level: Level 4, $99,134
- $104,044 pa, PSCSAA 2024 Come join the team at the new Department of Housing and Works. The Department of Housing and Works delivers and maintains essential social housing and critical infrastructure across Western Australia—including schools, hospitals and police facilities. We manage tenancy services, support housing provision in remote Aboriginal communities, and oversee government employee accommodation. Through office accommodation solutions, State Fleet management, procurement, planning and asset policy, we empower other government agencies to deliver their best. We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, and culturally and linguistically diverse people. We are committed to ensuring our hiring processes are inclusive. If you are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person, young person or person with disability seeking assistance with your application, please contact Jobs and Skills WA on 13 64 64. If you are a person living with disability and require any adjustments or accommodations, please contact Kim Boyd on 08 6551 1849 or via email at Kim.
[email protected]. You can also reach us through the National Relay Service. When you join us, you can enjoy a variety of benefits, including:
- flexible work options, including working from home up to 2 days per week.
- professional development, training, and on-the-job learningto advance your career.
- generous leave entitlements, which include 4 weeks annual leave, 3 public service holidays each year, accrued long service leave every 7 years and an option to purchase additional leave each year. Access to cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.




- corporate discounts with selected health insurance providers and access to wellness programs.

About The Role
The Project Officer is responsible for managing low value, low risk and complexity projects and breakdown repairs or discrete elements within low to medium value, risk, and complexity projects. The role contributes to and supports project teams of in house and private sector professionals to plan and deliver projects for government and administers project management systems and maintenance of information. The Project Officer also contributes to the procurement of trades and services for building construction and maintenance works and liaises and maintains relationships with key stakeholders. About You: You may not have worked in government or construction before, and that is okay. What matters most is that you are organised, curious, practical and ready to learn. The Buildings and Contracts Academy is designed for people who can bring strong transferable skills from other industries and apply them to the delivery and maintenance of non-residential infrastructure for the Western Australian Government, including facilities such as schools, police stations and hospitals. You might have experience coordinating work, solving problems under pressure, keeping records accurate, supporting procurement or contracts, managing competing priorities, working with customers or stakeholders, or getting things done in operational, logistics,



facilities, maintenance, asset management or service delivery environments. If you enjoy working with people, making sense of information, following valuable process and seeing a job through from start to finish, this program can help you build the technical knowledge and confidence needed to step into a project officer role. As part of the Academy, you will be supported to develop the skills needed to help plan, procure, coordinate and deliver building works that support essential public services across Western Australia. We are looking for people who communicate clearly, build positive relationships, take responsibility for their work, and are motivated by the opportunity to contribute to projects that benefit the community. We are currently recruiting for both the works delivery and maintenance streams of the Buildings and Contracts Academy. If you are ready for a career change and want to build practical skills while contributing to key public infrastructure for the Western Australian community, we encourage you to apply. You can learn more about the work we do by:
- connecting with us on LinkedIn
- following us on Facebook. About the Academy: The Buildings and Contracts Academy (the Academy) is an internal structured training program designed to support people as they build the skills, confidence and practical experience needed to work in project officer roles within the Department of Housing and Works. Through a mix of formal training, hands-on tasks, shadowing, mentoring and subject matter expert sessions, participants learn the fundamentals of how we plan, procure, deliver and maintain non-residential infrastructure for the Western Australian Government. As part of the Academy, yo

📌 Project Officer (Perth)
🏢 Department of Housing and Works
📍 Perth