FIFO Project Manager: Structural Underground Construction

M2P Engineering; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Project incentives

Flights and accommodation

Salary packaging

Wellbeing support

Professional development

Job summary

M2P Engineering in Snowy Mountains, NSW, is seeking a Project Manager to lead delivery onsite on a major structural underground construction project. You will coordinate a ~45-strong crew across day and night shifts, report to the Construction Manager and Senior Project Engineer, and ensure safe, on-time, within-budget outcomes.

You’ll oversee planning from initiation to completion, manage milestones, and collaborate with the client and delivery partners.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering industrial structural steel and mechanical construction projects, ideally within underground mining, oil & gas, or heavy industry.
• Background gained in a specialist contracting or fabrication environment.
• Proven ability to deliver safely, on time and within budget on complex, higher-risk packages.
• Strong planning and programming discipline, with hands-on experience in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project for scheduling, task tracking and resource allocation, plus strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Sound commercial acumen and a firm grip on construction risk.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the leadership presence to drive accountability across a large crew.
• Genuine experience working FIFO or DIDO, and a willingness to travel to site.
• Availability to work a 2:1 roster in the Snowy Mountains, and to be based on site when the project is mobilised.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of delivery for a complex structural and mechanical package, from fabrication and procurement, through mobilisation, to site installation.
• Provide clear leadership and direction to a multidisciplinary construction crew across day and night shift.
• Ensure key milestones are achieved safely, on time, within scope and within budget.
• Identifying and managing structural construction risk in a confined, underground, high access environment.
• Coordinating fabrication, procurement, logistics and site resources across remote locations.
• Building strong working relationships with the client, delivery partners and your on-site leadership team.
• Developing practical solutions to overcome construction challenges as they arise.
• Maintaining high standards of safety, quality, communication and accountability throughout the project.

Skills

Project leadership

Primavera P6

MS Project

Excel

Stakeholder management

FIFO/DIDO experience

Education

Mechanical engineering background (preferred)

Tools

Scheduling tools

Job description

M2P Engineering in Snowy Mountains, NSW, is seeking a Project Manager to lead delivery onsite on a major structural underground construction project. You will coordinate a ~45-strong crew across day and night shifts, report to the Construction Manager and Senior Project Engineer, and ensure safe, on-time, within-budget outcomes.

You’ll oversee planning from initiation to completion, manage milestones, and collaborate with the client and delivery partners.