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Job Description

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Project Manager, you'll 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.

You’ll 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.





- Commercial Management: Oversee procurement strategies, contract administration, variations, claims, cost forecasting and commercial negotiations.

- 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

You're an established project delivery professional who combines strong technical and commercial capability with the confidence to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage complex contractor relationships.

You’ll ideally bring:

- 10–15 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 solid 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 capabil

📌 Senior Project Manager (Australia)
🏢 AECOM Australia
📍 Australia