AO7 Senior Project Manager

Posted 22 November 2024
Salary$85.31 per hour
LocationChermside
Job type Temporary
DisciplineProject Management
ReferenceJO-2411-496054

Job description

Our valued State Government client is looking for an AO7 Senior Project Manager join their Chermside team. This key role will see you ensuring activities are implemented effectively, managed, and coordinated for the delivery of capital works across a range of programs. 
 
As the Senior Project Manager, your responsibilities will include: 
  • Manage relationships and stakeholder engagement to ensure the effective delivery and profitability of capital works building programs.
  • Manage, monitor, and lead the activities and performance of the Capital Works Team.
  • Coordinating and managing all aspects of building projects including pre-design, design, documentation, contract administration and post construction activities and assisting in taking responsibility for the quality and suitability of the building product delivered to the client.
  • Coordinating the activities of other project staff, external consultants, building contractors, managers, and other business units in the achievement of project objectives.
  • Providing a high level of contract coordination in respect to traditional and non-traditional contract systems.
  • Interfacing with clients on day-to-day operation matters.
  • Ensuring project implementation activities for building construction and maintenance projects, including contractual aspects, are effectively coordinated and managed.
  • Ensuring all projects are managed to achieve the client’s scope, time, cost, cash-flow, and quality requirements and profitability targets.
  • Leading negotiations with consultants, local authorities, the client and contractors to ensure value for money solutions are identified and delivered. Utilising experience and professional knowledge to add value to discussions and ensure appropriate stakeholder management is undertaken.
  • Controlling variances by generating exception reports on time and cost aspects of projects management and performing project audits to establish project team performance as appropriate.
  • Assisting the Program Manager/Principal Project Manager to determine attainable fees for services under your control and where necessary, generate the approval for the billing of clients.
  • Ensuring all quality assurance procedures within the work area are followed.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
  • Building construction related qualifications.
  • Client-side building construction/upgrade projects management experience
  • Effective in communications and stakeholder management.
  • Ability preparing project reports for management and clients.
  • Ability achieving project targets in terms of time, costs, quality, and client satisfaction.
  • Ability to operate independently and lead project teams comprising of internal and external resources.
  • Manages competing interests of project team members and stakeholders.
  • Can give ad-hoc advice and assistance to project managers.

This role offers an hourly rate of $85.31 + Super, an ideal start date of 9 December to 31 March, with the possibility of extension.
 

For a more information, please call DFP Recruitment on 07 3239 2500.
 
 

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