Lead Forensic Engineering & Project Delivery

GWG Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GWG Recruitment is assisting a client in Sydney/Newcastle to appoint a Project Lead who will direct a team of two reports in delivering forensic litigation and remediation engagements. You will drive project delivery, maintain schedules, and ensure timelines, budgets and court deadlines are met.

You will collaborate with the Director to shape proposals, site inspections and expert reports while guiding cross-functional teams toward clear, commercial outcomes.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Construction, Project Management or Law.
• Strong commercial capability with budgets, WIP, and scope control.
• Experience leading technical teams and mentoring staff.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational excellence with your team and act as the Director’s project delivery support.
• Manage end-to-end lifecycle of forensic, litigation and remedial engineering matters, including defining project scope.
• Drive timelines for inspections, findings, technical reviews, legal submissions, joint expert conclaves and final reports.
• Establish and maintain project programmes, action registers and delivery priorities to ensure deadlines and deliverables are visible and met.
• Coordinating engineers, drafters and other internal resources according to urgency, complexity and capacity.
• Maintaining accurate document control across evidence, site photographs, drawings and expert records.
• Acting as a key contact for solicitors, barristers, insurers, strata managers, building owners and commercial clients.
• Monitoring project hours, WIP, budgets, variations, scope, invoicing milestones to protect commercial outcomes.
• Leading project kick-off meetings, progress updates and pre-conclave briefings.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives to reduce bottlenecks/drag.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Project delivery

Education

Tertiary qualifications in Construction/PM/Law

Tools

Project scheduling software

Document management systems

Job description

GWG Recruitment is assisting a client in Sydney/Newcastle to appoint a Project Lead who will direct a team of two reports in delivering forensic litigation and remediation engagements. You will drive project delivery, maintain schedules, and ensure timelines, budgets and court deadlines are met.

You will collaborate with the Director to shape proposals, site inspections and expert reports while guiding cross-functional teams toward clear, commercial outcomes.