Senior Project Manager
Role Overview
The Senior Project Manager leads delivery of complex and strategically significant capital projects across the project lifecycle.
The role is accountable for safe delivery aligned with approved objectives, scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
The Senior Project Manager advises and mentors the Projects team and supports continuous improvement.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Senior Project Manager leads delivery of complex and strategically significant capital projects across the project lifecycle.
The role is accountable for safe delivery aligned with approved objectives, scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
The Senior Project Manager advises and mentors the Projects team and supports continuous improvement.
Project delivery and execution
- Lead large capital projects from development support through commissioning and operational handover.
- Establish execution strategies aligned with business objectives, investment decisions, and long-term operational needs.
- Lead project teams, contractors, consultants, and stakeholders to deliver safely within scope, schedule, budget, and quality parameters.
Risk, commercial leadership, and governance
- Champion safety and proactively manage project risks, regulatory obligations, environmental requirements, and compliance commitments.
- Lead risk identification, mitigation planning, and issue resolution.
- Lead stakeholder relationships and provide leadership in procurement, contract negotiations, contract management, and commercial decisions.
- Oversee cost, schedule, forecasting, reporting, change management, and project controls; present performance, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
Leadership and capability
- Mentor and coach Project Managers, Project Engineers, and other project team members.
- Support project management capability, delivery practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Promote collaboration, accountability, innovation, and delivery excellence.
Required knowledge, skills, and experience
- Seven to ten years in a similar role managing projects through development, execution, commissioning, and operational handover.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, or a related discipline; PMP designation.
- Experience delivering major infrastructure, industrial, power generation, energy transition, renewable energy, utility, or related capital projects.
- Progressive experience in complex capital delivery, project governance, and lifecycle management; strong commercial acumen in contracts, procurement, and project economics.
- Advanced understanding of forecasting, scheduling, earned value, change management, and risk management.
- Leadership, coaching, communication, negotiation, influencing, and strategic decision-making skills.
- Knowledge of engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, regulatory, environmental, and safety practices for capital projects.
- Ability to lead continuous improvement initiatives.
Hiring process
- Final candidates will be required to undergo a security clearance check.
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