Project Manager

Your new company

Join a company that plays a crucial role in Western Australia’s energy stability by upgrading infrastructure, integrating renewable energy and ensuring a stable energy supply for WA.

Your new role

• Accountable for the overall delivery of projects to agreed criteria, within commercially competitive standards for safety, cost, timeliness, quality, and scope and to the expectations of our customers and stakeholders.
• The position will manage and deliver projects that are challenging but significant in terms of value, complexity, visibility and reputational impact.
• In performing this role, the incumbent is required to contribute to an inclusive, effective and safe working environment by taking responsibility for his/her decisions and behaviours, and the consequences of these.
• Reduce delivery risks by actively managing project risk to increase the success rate of projects.
• Support the delivery of the Corporate Strategy, ensuring the effective and efficient use of valuable project and business resources.
• Ensure a safe working environment is maintained at all times.
• Work with ambiguity in a dynamic environment; maintain a flexible approach in setting priorities and meeting targets.
• Delivering projects in a compliant way to agreed standards, scope, time and cost with competing demands on resources and business pressures.
• Actively manage project risks and issues in the projects to ensure successful delivery.
• Managing the expectations of stakeholders, whilst building and motivating project teams in a challenging delivery environment.
• Providing high-level technical subject matter expertise.
• Ensure project financials are managed, maintained, forecasted and can be reported upon in terms of Capex and Opex.
• Report the status of the assigned projects proactively and on an ongoing basis to key stakeholders and Team Leader, and co-ordinate and manage the work of the project team through up-to-date resource plans and project schedules.
• Identify and actively manage project assumptions, risks, issues and dependencies associated with delivery, ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies are established and actively managed.
• Ensure project and quality assurance controls and gate checks are undertaken to minimise risk to delivery, costs and quality.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis and establish effective stakeholder management plans.
• Ensure that all project documentation is completed appropriately and satisfies NFIT requirements.
• Support and build effective project teams across diverse functions of the enterprise to deliver required project and program outcomes.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to less experienced project management employees.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Tertiary Qualifications in Engineering or Construction Management or relevant discipline
• Broad and extensive knowledge and worked as a Project Manager for a minimum of 8 years with demonstrated experience in high-value/highly complex projects.
• A successful record of delivering complex, large-value, high-risk projects within a constrained timeframe.
• Experience with Primavera P6.
• Ability to professionally engage stakeholders, both written and verbal, including presenting project progress to management.
• Self-motivated and the ability to manage time and prioritise effort.
• Industry experience with a working understanding of the electrical network and relevant work practices, policies and standards.
• At least 8 to 10 years demonstrated extensive experience managing and delivering complex projects and programs utilising industry-standard project methodology such as PMBOK or Prince 2.

What you’ll get in return

• 12-month contract
• Perth-based position
• Work on large-scale electrical infrastructure projects
• WFH options

What you need to do now

If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Dillan Morris now.

If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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