Project Director

Bouygues Construction Australia; Australia; On-site; AUD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Bouygues Construction Australia is seeking a Project Director to provide strategic leadership and end-to-end delivery of a major construction project. You will set direction, governance, and ensure safety, quality, programme, budget, commercial, and sustainability objectives are met while coordinating with the client, senior project team, designers, contractors, and other stakeholders.

The role promotes a high-performing, collaborative project culture and maintains alignment between project

Qualifications

• Extensive senior leadership experience delivering large or complex construction projects.
• Strong commercial, financial, and project-controls awareness.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Strategic leadership and sound decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Set the project's strategic direction, objectives, governance, and delivery priorities.
• Lead the project leadership team and establish clear accountability, decision-making, and reporting arrangements.
• Maintain senior-level relationships with the client, consultants, contractors, authorities, and other key stakeholders.
• Oversee delivery against the approved scope, programme, budget, quality standards, and contractual requirements.
• Review project performance, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and recovery plans; intervene where corrective action is required.
• Lead the management of significant project risks, changes, claims, and commercial issues in coordination with the relevant leads.
• Ensure health, safety, environmental, and sustainability objectives are integrated into project planning and delivery.
• Oversee the coordination of design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Support the resolution of major technical, commercial, contractual, and stakeholder issues.
• Ensure effective project controls, reporting, document management, and assurance processes are in place.
• Provide clear and timely updates to executive leadership and the client on project status, decisions, and emerging issues.
• Lead project completion and handover planning, including readiness, close-out, and lessons learned.

Skills

Senior leadership experience

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

At Bouygues Construction Australia, we are dedicated to the design, construction, and delivery of nation shaping projects across civil infrastructure, engineering, and energy and services.

We have proudly been working in Australia for more than 25 years.

Our local experience in underpinned by significant global expertise and resourcing.

About The Role

The Project Director provides strategic leadership and overall accountability for the successful delivery of a construction project. They set the project's direction and governance, ensuring that safety, quality, programme, budget, commercial, and sustainability objectives are managed effectively. Working with the client, senior project team, designers, contractors, and other stakeholders, the Project Director makes key decisions, manages major risks and interfaces, and ensures that the project is appropriately resourced and controlled. The role promotes a high-performing, collaborative project culture and maintains alignment between project delivery and the client's objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the project's strategic direction, objectives, governance, and delivery priorities.
• Lead the project leadership team and establish clear accountability, decision-making, and reporting arrangements.
• Maintain senior-level relationships with the client, consultants, contractors, authorities, and other key stakeholders.
• Oversee delivery against the approved scope, programme, budget, quality standards, and contractual requirements.
• Review project performance, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and recovery plans; intervene where corrective action is required.
• Lead the management of significant project risks, changes, claims, and commercial issues in coordination with the relevant leads.
• Ensure health, safety, environmental, and sustainability objectives are integrated into project planning and delivery.
• Oversee the coordination of design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Support the resolution of major technical, commercial, contractual, and stakeholder issues.
• Ensure effective project controls, reporting, document management, and assurance processes are in place.
• Provide clear and timely updates to executive leadership and the client on project status, decisions, and emerging issues.
• Lead project completion and handover planning, including readiness, close-out, and lessons learned.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Preferred Master's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Extensive senior leadership experience delivering large or complex construction projects.
• Proven experience overseeing project teams, budgets, programmes, contracts, and commercial performance.
• Strong understanding of construction delivery, project controls, procurement, risk management, and contract administration.
• Strategic leadership and sound decision-making.
• Strong commercial, financial, and project-controls awareness.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and build a culture of accountability and collaboration.

Bouygues Construction Australia values diversity and welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.