Project Manager – Housing Growth Program

Role Overview

The Project Manager will be accountable for the safe, successful delivery of complex infrastructure projects, ensuring outcomes are achieved within agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, and stakeholder expectations. The role involves balancing commercial, operational, and customer requirements while leading project teams to deliver strategic network investments that support Western Power’s long-term objectives.

What You Will Do

Delivering projects in a compliant way to agreed standards, scope, time and cost with competing demands on resources and business pressures. Managing project risks and issues in the projects to ensure successful delivery, managing expectations with stakeholders, whilst building and motivating project teams in a challenging delivery environment.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Relevant qualifications and/or significant demonstrated experience in project delivery, engineering, construction, business analysis, financial management, infrastructure, or a related field. Industry accreditation in project management, RegPM / PMI. Demonstrated experience managing and delivering projects utilising industry standard project methodology such as PMBOK or Prince 2.

Requirements

• Relevant qualifications and/or significant demonstrated experience in project delivery, engineering, construction, business analysis, financial management, infrastructure, or a related field.
• Industry accreditation in project management, RegPM / PMI.
• Demonstrated experience managing and delivering projects utilising industry standard project methodology such as PMBOK or Prince 2.
• Ability to professionally engage stakeholders, both written and verbal, including presenting project progress to management.
• Experience using project scheduling and forecasting software (e.g. Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or equivalent) is desirable.
• 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.
• Financial acumen including the ability to interpret financial data and reports. Utilise project knowledge to accurately budget and forecast expenditure and productivity
• Valid WA Driver’s License Class ‘C’ or ‘C-A’.

Benefits

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.
• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office and South Metro Depot, perfect for cyclists.
• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.