Ready to make a splash in your career? WaterNSW is seeking an experienced Regional Project Manager South - Mechanical (Full time, Permanent) to join our Built Infrastructure's Regional Operations South team. Reporting to the Team Leader Regional Project Delivery South, you will lead the delivery of essential infrastructure projects that help secure and sustain water resources for communities across NSW. Working across a portfolio of asset renewal projects, you will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, manage contractors and stakeholders and oversee project execution from planning through to completion. This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation and to make a tangible impact by delivering safe, high-quality projects that achieve exceptional outcomes in scope, schedule, cost, and performance, while championing a strong safety-first culture. This is an opportunity to work with an essential organisation creating a more sustainable future for the state. This role offers the flexibility to work around life, your contribution will be valued, and you’ll be supported to build a rewarding career.

Location:

Albury is preferred. However, we may potentially be open to having the successful candidate to be based at our Orange or Wagga Wagga office (subject to availability and approvals).

Our Perks and Benefits:

- Work a 9-day fortnight at Full pay on the Enterprise Agreement
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Fertility leave
- Professional development and educational assistance
- Access to remote area benefit packaging (based on work location)
- Salary starting from $142,610 base + 12% super
- And so much more

What you'll do:

- Project Management:



Deliver on all aspects of the project life cycle from initiation, planning, execution and closing to improve safety, avoid risk and reduce cost.
- Solutions: Identify, monitor and present options with key stakeholders in the appropriate manner to ensure successful delivery of the project outcomes and implement the best solution to meet project outcomes.
- Contracts & Engagement: Ensure the method of engaging contractors is suitable, clear and sufficient to reduce risk, is in accordance with WaterNSW policy and delivers value for money. Ensure appropriate and relevant internal and external stakeholders are effectively briefed, available and engaged in a timely manner to enable effective and efficient project delivery.
- Design: Oversee design processes to ensure relevant specifications and standards are met. Lead design review meetings and include relevant stakeholders to ensure risks are identified and addressed.
- Project Monitoring: Regularly monitor project work against agreed milestones and budgets and adequately supervise site works to ensure safety, environmental and quality aspects meet or exceed requirements.

What we are looking for:





- Tertiary Qualification in Project Management or Mechanical Engineering or demonstrated equivalent mechanical engineering experience in the delivery of water infrastructure asset-based projects.
- Proven experience in managing projects, design process and site-based experience managing construction activities and contractors.
- Proven experience engaging with key internal and external stakeholders to identify needs, address issues and ensure objectives are understood and met.
- Demonstrated background in planning work and deploying resources to deliver business goals.
- Demonstrated understanding of engineering design principles and can interpret project / engineering documentation such as specifications and drawings.
- Commercial acumen and demonstrated experience to identify benefits, opportunities and trade-offs to be made when formulating and executing business cases, project plans and contract negotiations.
- Current NSW Drivers Licence.

Who we are:

WaterNSW operates the state’s dams, capturing and storing water, and then supplying it ready for distribution – for the environment, agriculture, industry and the community. With 41 major dams and hundreds of waterways across the state, we play a vital role at the source of the state’s water, delivering two thirds of all water used in NSW.

We’re the people taking care of the state’s water at the source – capturing, storing, delivering.

How we will support you:

At WaterNSW, we balance flexibility – and the way we work – with the needs of the business, our teams, and us as individuals. When it comes to working in an office, we work in a hybrid way. If you’re required to be in the field or on site, the benefits of flexibility can be ach

📌 Regional Project Manager South (Australia)
🏢 State Water
📍 Australia