Project Director

TSA Riley; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Major-project opportunity

Career growth

Award-winning learning and development

Great Place to Work culture

Global capability with local impact

Job summary

TSA Riley is seeking a Project Director to lead the project management team on the New Coomera Hospital in Queensland. This senior delivery role will guide multi-billion-dollar greenfield infrastructure as the project transitions to construction.

Based in Gold Coast/Brisbane, the role requires strategic judgement and strong leadership across a large multidisciplinary team. You will work with HIQ to maintain momentum, oversee procurement, design, and construction, and provide decisive, risk-aware

Qualifications

• Significant leadership on major capital projects.
• Excellent communication with senior government and client leaders.
• Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary project teams.
• Experience partnering with health infrastructure programs.
• Proven experience delivering complex delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and integrate a large, multidisciplinary project team.
• Support HIQ with delivery strategy and decisions.
• Oversee project management interfaces with Tier 1 contractors.
• Coordinate delivery of major road and external infrastructure works.
• Manage risks, navigation of stakeholders, and program milestones.
• Provide clear, decision-ready guidance on project status and issues.
• Ensure appropriate resource focus across workstreams.

Skills

Leadership

Executive presence

Stakeholder management

Strategic judgement

Health infrastructure experience

Tools

Tier 1 contractor experience

Job description

TSA Riley is seeking an exceptional Project Director to lead our project management team on the New Coomera Hospital, one of Queensland's largest and most complex social infrastructure projects.

This is a senior major-project delivery leadership role to support the successful delivery of a multi-billion-dollar greenfield hospital and its associated infrastructure.

The project already has a highly experienced team with deep health infrastructure expertise and strong senior project leadership capability. With the project transitioning into the construction phase, we are looking for a delivery expert - someone with the strategic judgement, executive presence and major-project experience to lead and integrate that capability across a complex delivery environment. Health experience is highly regarded, but it is not essential.

This role is based in Gold Coast, Brisbane.

What You'll Do

As Project Director, you will lead TSA Riley's project management function and work alongside Health Infrastructure Queensland (HIQ) to maintain control and momentum across the project.

You Will

• Lead and integrate a large, experienced multidisciplinary project team, establishing clear direction, accountability and priorities
• Support HIQ with delivery strategy, executive decision-making and resolution of project challenges
• Lead the project management interface including with the Tier 1 contractor
• Oversee and integrate the delivery of significant road and external precinct critical infrastructure works being undertaken through separate delivery arrangements
• Maintain oversight across programme, design, procurement, commercial, construction, interfaces and management of delivery risks
• Support HIQ in leading engagement and coordination with key authorities and infrastructure stakeholders, including Queensland Rail, City of Gold Coast and Queensland Urban Utilities
• Provide clear, concise and decision-ready advice on project status, risks and critical issues
• Ensure the right people are focused on the right workstreams at the right time.

This is a role for a hands-on leader, with an expectation you will understand the detail, identify what matters and drive delivery.

About You

You are an accomplished project delivery and people leader with a track record of successfully leading large and complex capital projects.

You Bring

• Significant leadership experience on major capital projects, ideally greater than $1 billion
• Excellent communication skills and the executive presence to operate credibly with senior government, client and contractor leadership
• Strong experience working with government clients and senior public-sector stakeholders
• Proven ability to lead large, senior and multidisciplinary project teams
• Demonstrated experience managing Tier 1 contractors through complex delivery environments
• Strong strategic judgement - the ability to anticipate issues, understand their wider implications and determine the appropriate response
• Strong capability across construction delivery, programme, design, procurement, commercial management and risk
• Experience managing significant interfaces with authorities, utilities, infrastructure providers and other key stakeholders
• A pragmatic and decisive approach to problem-solving
• The ability to remain calm, structured and effective in a complex, high-pressure environment.

Experience in major social infrastructure is strongly preferred. This may include health, defence, education, justice, major civil infrastructure or similarly complex government capital programs.

What Success Looks Like

• You will bring clarity and structure to complexity.
• You will know when to challenge, when to collaborate, when to intervene and when to escape.
• You will be comfortable moving between executive-level strategy and the practical realities of major-project delivery.
• Most importantly, you will give the client and project team confidence that the project is understood, controlled and moving forward.

About TSA Riley

TSA Riley is a global project consultancy with more than 1,100 specialists across Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. We help clients and communities realise the transformative power of their assets, partnering across the full lifecycle of property and infrastructure projects and portfolios - from planning to delivery and optimisation.

Why TSA Riley?

At TSA Riley, you'll join a global project consultancy of more than 1,000 experts working across the full project lifecycle.

In Queensland, you will be joining an established and highly experienced health infrastructure team working across some of the state's most significant capital programs.

We Offer

• Major-project opportunity - play a leadership role on one of Queensland's most significant social infrastructure projects
• An exceptional existing team - lead experienced professionals with deep health infrastructure and major-project capability
• Career growth - opportunities across Project Management, Advisory, Cost Management, Asset Management and other specialist services
• Award-winning learning and development - structured investment in professional and leadership development
• A Great Place to Work certified culture - with comprehensive employee benefits, recognition and development opportunities
• Global capability with local leadership - work within an international consultancy while having a direct impact on major Queensland projects.

At TSA Riley, we celebrate diversity and welcome people from all backgrounds. We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace.

If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact our People & Culture team at [e-mail].