Project Manager - Austal Brisbane

Austal; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Professional development

Supportive work environment

Career advancement

Job summary

Austal in Brisbane is seeking a Project Manager to lead and manage assigned projects across the lifecycle, ensuring diligent and effective delivery. You will apply strong leadership and high-level communication to identify constraints, pinch-points, and risks impacting client delivery.

Responsibilities include managing risk, schedules, procurement, budget, resourcing, and stakeholders; ensuring accurate charges for projects; leading meetings; and negotiating tender variations.

Qualifications

• Possess an engineering or fabrication trade qualification with 10 years trade experience.
• Hold or willing to obtain a Project Management Qualification.
• Exposure to the marine and/or heavy industrial industries is desirable.
• Be commercially astute, with exposure to project budgets, estimates and cost controls.
• Be goals driven and results orientated, with an excellent attention to detail and the ability to explain and discuss technical, commercial, and contractual topics.
• Experience in planning.
• Strong supervisory, organisational, written and verbal skills.
• Hold a Construction safety induction (white card).

Responsibilities

• Manage Project – Risk, Schedule, Procurement, Budget, Resourcing, Communications and Stakeholders.
• Ensure accurate task information is documented to ensure detailed and accurate charges are billed accordingly against projects.
• Manage project schedules to ensure schedules are accurately compiled, updated, and delivered to customer needs.
• Manage budgets and ensure financial targets met or exceeded.
• Identify and appropriately manage any technical, safety or project personnel issues and risk.
• Procure project labour in line with resourcing requirements.
• Develop key relationships with stakeholders and suppliers and maintain communications.
• Provide clear direction to project teams to ensure tasks are executed by deadlines to quality standards.
• Provide project-specific advice to ensure future costings and timelines are quoted accurately.
• Compile, submit and negotiate project tender responses; execute project variations.
• Facilitate and lead project meetings and toolbox meetings.

Skills

Project management

Trade qualification

Budget management

Planning

Supervisory skills

Stakeholder management

Construction safety induction

Education

Engineering or fabrication trade qualification

Job description

Reporting to theOperations Manager, theProject Managerwill lead and manage assigned projects. The role is accountable for all facets of the project lifecycle, ensuring each stage is managed diligently and effectively. Strong leadership, along with high-level consultation and communication, will be key in identifying constraints, pinch-points and risk that has the potential to impact on the successful delivery of the project to our clients.

Key objectives & responsibilities include:

• Manage Project â Risk, Schedule, Procurement, Budget, Resourcing, Communications and Stakeholders
• Ensure accurate task information is documented to ensure detailed and accurate charges are billed accordingly against projects
• Manage project schedules to ensure that project schedules are accurately compiled, updated, and delivered to customer needs
• Manage budgets and ensure financial targets met or exceeded
• Identify and appropriately manage any technical, safety or project personnel issues and risk
• Procure project labour IAW the project resourcing requirements both internally and externally
• Develop key relationships with stakeholders and suppliers and maintain communications
• Provide clear direction to project teams to ensure daily, weekly, and critical tasks are executed by the required deadlines to quality standards
• Provide project specific advice to ensure future projects costings and timelines are quoted accurately
• Compile, submit and negotiate project tender responses
• Compile, submit, negotiate, and execute any project variations
• Facilitate and lead project meetings and toolbox meetings

Required Skills / Experience / Attributes:

Required Skills

• Possess an engineering or fabrication Trade Qualification with 10 years trade experience
• Hold or willing to obtain a Project Management Qualification if successful
• Exposure to the marine and or heavy industrial industries, as well as a sound knowledge of asset management standards, systems and processes is desirable
• Be commercially astute, with exposure to project budgets, estimates and cost controls
• Be goals driven and results orientated, with an excellent attention to detail and the ability to explain and discuss technical, commercial, and contractual topics
• Experience in planning
• Strong supervisory, organisational, written and verbal skills
• Pro-Active thinker with Initiative
• Hold a Construction safety induction (white card)

Why Austal

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• A supportive and dynamic work environment.
• Opportunities for career advancement within our growing organisation.

What's on Offer?

• Located in Brisbane QLD
• Salary Sacrificing, Novated Leasing, Retailer discount, Employee Assistance Program, Insurance discounts

Our global team is guided by a universal set of values that describe the focus of our efforts. Our goal is for all our decisions and actions to reflect these core values. We believe that putting our values into practice creates the greatest benefits for our shareholders, customers, employees, suppliers, and communities in which we serve.

Excellence - Customer Focus - Integrity - Team Work

At Austal we are committed to providing a safe and inclusive work environment for all. We believe that achieving greater diversity will enhance our operations and as such we actively encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders, people of all backgrounds, ages, sexual orientation, and those with Disability to apply.