Project Manager - Renewables and Digital Infrastructure

Aurecon Australasia Pty Ltd - Philippines Branch Office; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurecon in Melbourne is seeking an early-to-mid career Project Manager to contribute to data centre and renewable energy projects, grow your career, and work with some of the most experienced professionals in the industry.

You will lead design and construction schedules, manage scope and risk, deliver projects from concept through handover, and report progress to clients and leadership. This role offers a collaborative culture, diverse teams, and exposure to high‑impact infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of project management experience.
• Experience across complex stakeholder environments and managing priorities.
• Strong documentation, report writing, and presentation skills.
• For data centre candidates: experience delivering data centre projects with a recognised contractor or developer would be highly regarded.
• For renewable energy candidates: experience in renewable energy development or delivery (BESS, wind or solar).

Responsibilities

• Build client partnerships and co-create tailored solutions.
• Lead design and construction schedules, ensuring alignment with timelines and specs.
• Deliver projects from concept through to handover, managing scope, risk, financials, and reporting.
• Oversee multiple concurrent projects across the full lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Regional Leads and Program Director to report progress and milestones.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Reporting

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Job description

What will you do?

Are you an early-mid career professional ready to contribute to major data centre or renewable energy projects, grow your career, and work with some of the most experienced professionals in the industry? Aurecon's Program Performance team is experiencing significant growth across Australia, and we're looking for proactive Project Managers to join our expanding Melbourne team delivering a wide variety of projects. We are particularly interested in people with project management experience in either the data centre or renewable energy sectors.

• As a Project Manager, you'll build strong client partnerships and co-create innovative, tailored solutions to meet their evolving challenges
• Lead and manage both design and construction schedules, ensuring alignment with client expectations, timelines and specifications
• Deliver projects from concept through to handover, managing scope, risk, financials, and reporting
• Oversee multiple concurrent projects across the full lifecycle
• Collaborate with our Regional Leads and Program Director to report on project progress and milestones

What are we looking for from you?

At Aurecon, we believe diversity of experience brings diverse thinking. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds who can demonstrate strong project management experience and a passion for infrastructure. Ideally, you will have:

• 4-8 years' experience in a project management role
• Experience working across complex stakeholder environments and managing competing priorities
• Strong documentation, report writing, and presentation skills
• For data centre candidates: experience delivering data centre projects, ideally gained with a recognised contractor, data centre developer, renewable energy developer or major market participant will be highly regarded.
• For renewable energy candidates: experience in renewable energy development or delivery, including BESS, wind or solar projects, ideally gained with a developer, contractor, consultant or other major market participant.
• Practical experience supporting scope, schedule, cost, risk, governance, reporting and stakeholder coordination.
• Project management, consulting or contractor-side experience within infrastructure, buildings, data centres or renewable energy.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or experience

Our Aurecon Attributes describe the types of people we bring together for our clients. We don't expect you to have all eight of the attributes, but one that is unique to you.

Diversity is at the core of everything we do. We work together to create a culture based on respect, trust, and inclusiveness. Our differences are what fuel our creativity.

Finally, we value that each of our team members brings something different to Aurecon. We look for people who have had a broad range of experiences throughout their career and can demonstrate how they have worked as part of a team to bring ideas to life.

Just imagine a future with us... Aurecon is a design, engineering and advisory company, but not as you know it! Drawing on our deep pool of technical and advisory expertise, we co-create innovative solutions with our clients to some of the world's most complex challenges. And through a range of unique creative processes and skills, we work to re-imagine, shape and design a better future.