Project Manager GSP

APA Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

APA Group is seeking a Project Manager to join the Grid Solutions Program, supporting delivery across multiple value streams from Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney. You will lead day-to-day delivery, manage milestones, dependencies and cross-functional teams to achieve outcomes.

Reporting to the Portfolio Delivery Manager, you will collaborate with business, technology and vendor partners in a fast-paced environment, navigate complexity, and uphold governance while focusing on execution.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering complex technology, digital transformation or enterprise system implementation projects within large organisations.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple workstreams or project streams concurrently within a broader program environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across business, technology, delivery partners and vendors.
• Experience managing requirements, dependencies, delivery risks, testing activities and implementation readiness.
• A structured, organised and pragmatic approach, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and tight delivery timelines.
• Experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure or other highly regulated industries will be highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery across multiple GSP value streams, ensuring milestones, dependencies and deliverables are achieved on time and to the required quality standards.
• Drive delivery from requirements clarification through design, build and system testing, maintaining visibility of risks, issues and critical path activities.
• Taking a strongly people centric approach, coordinate cross-functional resources, balancing priorities, capacity and competing demands to maintain delivery momentum.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, technology teams and external delivery partners to ensure alignment and timely decision-making.
• Proactively identify, manage and elevate risks, issues and blockers, providing clear recommendations and recovery actions where required.
• Maintain governance artefacts, delivery plans and status reporting, ensuring scope changes and impacts are understood, documented and effectively managed.

Skills

Project management

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Job description

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Project Manager to join our Grid Solutions Program (GSP) team in our Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney office on a 2-year fixed-term basis.

Reporting to the Portfolio Delivery Manager, you will play a key role in delivering critical outcomes across several GSP value streams. Working within one of APA’s most significant business and technology transformation programs, you will lead the day-to-day delivery of multiple workstreams, ensuring milestones are achieved, dependencies are managed and teams remain focused on execution.

This role is ideal for a delivery-focused project professional who thrives in complex environments, can quickly establish credibility and enjoys bringing together business, technology and vendor teams to achieve outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery across multiple GSP value streams, ensuring milestones, dependencies and deliverables are achieved on time and to the required quality standards.
• Drive delivery from requirements clarification through design, build and system testing, maintaining visibility of risks, issues and critical path activities.
• Taking a strongly people centric approach, coordinate cross-functional resources, balancing priorities, capacity and competing demands to maintain delivery momentum.
• Partner closely with business stakeholders, technology teams and external delivery partners to ensure alignment and timely decision-making.
• Proactively identify, manage and elevate risks, issues and blockers, providing clear recommendations and recovery actions where required.
• Maintain governance artefacts, delivery plans and status reporting, ensuring scope changes and impacts are understood, documented and effectively managed.

Your Background

• Proven experience delivering complex technology, digital transformation or enterprise system implementation projects within large organisations.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple workstreams or project streams concurrently within a broader program environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across business, technology, delivery partners and vendors.
• Experience managing requirements, dependencies, delivery risks, testing activities and implementation readiness.
• A structured, organised and pragmatic approach, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and tight delivery timelines.
• Experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure or other highly regulated industries will be highly regarded.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a high-profile transformation program that will shape how APA’s gas infrastructure supports customers and operations into the future. You’ll work alongside experienced delivery professionals, business leaders and industry partners while driving outcomes that have meaningful enterprise-wide impact.

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges: the energy transition. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future.We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

Role closes on Sunday, 1 November 2026. Role Reference Number: JR5209

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.