Delivery Manager

UGL; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible work environment

Wellness program with AIA Vitality

Salary sacrifice options

Job summary

UGL's Transmission and Utilities business is seeking a Delivery Manager to lead the delivery of multiple water infrastructure projects in Australia. You will oversee Project Managers and cross-disciplinary teams to deliver safe, on-time, and commercially viable outcomes aligned to scope, schedule and budget.

The role focuses on strategic oversight, stakeholder engagement with government and clients, and ensuring effective delivery across design, construction, commissioning and handover.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of project management experience in multi-disciplinary environments.
• Engineering degree and project management qualification (AIPM) desired.
• Experience with government infrastructure programs and principal contractor roles.
• Strong stakeholder relationship skills with local and national government.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support Project Managers to deliver safe, efficient and commercially sound projects.
• Provide strategic oversight of delivery scope, schedule, budget and quality.
• Build relationships with clients, JV partners and stakeholders as senior delivery interface.
• Review budgets, TOCs, forecasts to ensure program viability.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Engineering degree

AIPM qualification

Tools

MS Project

Primavera P6

Job description

UGL's Transmission and Utilities business undertakes essential design & construction services for critical infrastructure in the power and water sectors. Our end-to-end delivery ranges from transmission lines, switchyards, substations, electrical distribution through to water and wastewater treatment plants and water pipelines.

Our expertise includes the design, construct, commission, operate and maintain where our Utilities Team safely leads and delivers design & construct projects across Australia. Our project delivery extends to include short and long-term contracts either through self-performance works, working with Sub-contractors or through Joint Ventures. Our work spans from engineering design through to structural, civil, electrical installation works and commissioning.

The Opportunity

The Delivery Manager leads the delivery of multiple projects within a program of works for water infrastructure projects. The role is accountable for the performance of assigned projects and provides leadership to Project Managers and multidisciplinary teams to achieve safe, efficient and commercially sound outcomes aligned to agreed scope, schedule, budget and quality targets.

What will a day in this role look like:

• Lead and support Project Managers and multidisciplinary delivery teams to achieve safe, efficient and successful project outcomes across the program portfolio.
• Provide strategic oversight of project delivery, ensuring alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality and performance objectives.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with clients, JV partners and key stakeholders, acting as the senior delivery interface for assigned projects and workstreams.
• Review and challenge project budgets, Target Outturn Costs (TOCs), forecasts and delivery strategies to ensure projects remain commercially viable and aligned with program objectives.

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

What are we looking for you to bring to the team:

• Tertiary qualification in engineering and/or Project Management qualification preferably AIPM Diploma level or above.
• Experience in MS Project, Primavera P6, or equivalent scheduling software.
• A minimum of 10 years’ demonstrable experience in, and sound understanding of, project management in a multi-disciplined production, manufacturing, maintenance or engineering environment.
• Significant design and construction management experience in a similar role involving high profile government infrastructure program/s acting in the role of Principal Contractor ideally in water infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively developing and maintaining strategic relationships with stakeholders, including all levels of local government, other levels of government, regulators, community, customers and elected representatives.

Why Unite with the Very Best…

• A competitive salary working in a rewarding, supportive and successful team
• Back yourself and your development, and UGL will back your growth
• Flexible and blended work environment; make use of flexible working and our impressive employee benefits, including:
• A rewarding Wellness Program with AIA Vitality – earn cashback for gym shoes!
• We’ll give you access to a multitude of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment.
• You can also take advantage of our salary sacrifice options including cars, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.

UGL – Big projects. Big careers.

We keep Australia moving through our transport manufacturing, maintenance and operations offering, and we support the energy sector through our renewables, power generation, resources and transmission operations. We are an end-to-end engineering and services provider (one of Australia’s biggest inhouse design houses)

We’re the people behind communications, transport, utilities, power, oil, gas, Defence and renewables. We build tunnels under rivers and flyover roads. We’re the people who take on the problems that have never been solved. The ones that stretch you outside of what’s known, where your true genius is challenged and shines.

Diversity & Social Inclusion

UGL is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where each employee feels safe to bring their whole selves to work. We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, Women, Military Veterans, those from diverse cultural backgrounds, people with a disability and our friends in the LGBTIQ+ Community.

UGL respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land in which we work and pays our respects to elders past, present and emerging.

As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate an applicant’s suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. It’s good to know that UGL does not discriminate based on a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check.