About the role

As a Project Manager with NSW Public Works, you’ll lead the planning, procurement and delivery of complex infrastructure projects for our clients, taking responsibility for project, commercial, safety and client outcomes.

You’ll manage projects of varying size, complexity and risk, including multiple concurrent projects across different clients and stages of delivery. You’ll bring together clients, consultants, contractors and internal specialists to keep projects moving, manage risk and resolve issues.

You’ll maintain effective project controls and manage contracts, budgets, variations, timeframes, quality and stakeholder expectations. You’ll also identify, manage and escalation project and construction safety risks and promote safe delivery practices throughout the project lifecycle.

People leadership is an important part of the role. You’ll manage and develop team members, set clear expectations, coordinate workloads and lead performance development through regular feedback, coaching and performance conversations.

It’s a role for an experienced Project Manager who is comfortable taking ownership, making sound decisions and leading both projects and people.

Benefits and working conditions

- Temporary full-time role for 2 years
- Based in Coffs Harbour
- Your employees work principally in the workplace
- $129,464 to $142,665 plus superannuation and leave loading
- Varied infrastructure projects across regional NSW
- 35‑hour base working week
- Flexible start and finish times between 6am and 7pm , with core hours of 10am–3pm
- Flex time , allowing additional hours worked to be accrued and taken back as flex leave




- Generous leave arrangements , including carers’, parental and adoption leave
- Four weeks recreation leave as standard .

Diversity and inclusion are core DPIRD values. Everyone has the right to contribute and participate to their full potential. We are committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive culture that is respectful, welcoming and flexible – a workplace where our people feel supported, valued, and part of our collective success.

Responsibilities

- Lead the planning, procurement and delivery of complex infrastructure projects for our clients, taking responsibility for project, commercial, safety and client outcomes.
- Manage projects of varying size, complexity and risk, including multiple concurrent projects across different clients and stages of delivery.
- Bring together clients, consultants, contractors and internal specialists to keep projects moving, manage risk and resolve issues.
- Maintain effective project controls and manage contracts, budgets, variations, timeframes, quality and stakeholder expectations.
- Identify, manage and escalation project and construction safety risks and promote safe delivery practices throughout the project lifecycle.
- People leadership: manage and develop team members, set clear expectations,



coordinate workloads and lead performance development through regular feedback, coaching and performance conversations.

About you

- Lead complex infrastructure projects from planning and procurement through construction, completion and handover.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects, taking accountability for safety, time, cost, quality, risk and client outcomes.
- Drive strong commercial and contract outcomes, managing budgets, variations, claims, consultants, contractors and project controls.
- Lead client and stakeholder relationships, resolve challenges early and coordinate multidisciplinary teams to achieve successful outcomes.
- Lead and develop people, setting clear expectations, managing performance and workloads, coaching team members and building capability through knowledge sharing and succession planning.
- Relevant trade, post-trade or tertiary qualifications in engineering, construction, project management or a related discipline.
- A minimum of five years’ relevant project or construction management experience within a commercial construction workplace.
- Demonstrated experience independently managing complex projects through planning, procurement, construction, completion and handover, with accountability for safety, time, cost, quality, client outcomes.
- Strong commercial and contract management capability, including managing budgets, risk, variations, claims, consultant and construction contracts and competing project priorities.
- Demonstrated people management capability, including performance development, coaching, workload management and managing performance.<

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