Senior Project Manager

City of Ryde; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work from home and office

Long service leave

Parental leave

MyLeave

Fitness passport

Flexible start/finish times

RDO every 3 weeks

Health & wellbeing programs

Job summary

City of Ryde is seeking a motivated Project Manager to deliver significant community infrastructure, including sports fields and leisure facilities. You will lead a high‑performing PM team, coordinate planning, design, construction and handover, and collaborate with diverse stakeholders to achieve community outcomes.

You will manage budgets, contracts, and reporting, with strong regulatory knowledge and excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure and complex building projects.
• Strong knowledge of legislation, regulations and design standards related to infrastructure.
• Proven ability to manage project finances, budgets, tendering and contracts.
• Excellent written communication for executive-level reporting and contract specs.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of major community infrastructure projects from planning to handover.
• Manage stakeholder engagement across internal and external partners.
• Ensure projects meet milestones, budgets and quality standards.

Skills

Project management

Budget management

Negotiation

Interpersonal skills

Written communication

Regulatory knowledge

Innovation in PM

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree in Civil/Construction Engineering or related field

Graduate diploma in Project Management

Tools

MS Project

Job description

• Be part of City of Ryde transformational journey
• Work for an organisation supporting the broader community
• Work in vibrant Macquarie Park!

About Us

City of Ryde, just 12 kilometres from Sydney CBD, is a place of unique lifestyle and opportunity. It is home to an engaged and culturally diverse community of around 130,000 people, and a strong and growing Smart City economy including more than 13,000 local businesses, Macquarie Park, world‑class hospitals, and a leading university. All balanced with beautiful bushland, riverfront parks, open spaces, and sport facilities.

Our City is undergoing significant population growth as we address the housing crisis in a collaborative manner with the NSW State Government. Council anticipates our population to double over the next 30 years. To address this rapid population growth, Council has developed a strategy to “strike the right balance”, ensuring that employment opportunities and provision of critical infrastructure occurs with significant housing uplift.

About the Role - Build the Future of Our Community

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can truly pave your way to success? Join us and play a key role in delivering large‑scale infrastructure projects that make a lasting difference to our community.

We are building a high‑performing Project Management team and are looking for motivated professionals to be part of our journey.

In this role, you will leverage your strong technical planning skills and development expertise to deliver significant community infrastructure projects, including sports fields, open spaces, and leisure centre facilities. These projects are complex in nature, involving structural works and multi‑storey facilities, and will challenge and grow your professional capability.

You will work closely with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, managing key milestones and ensuring successful project delivery that supports the strategic objectives of the City of Ryde and enhances community outcomes.

If you are looking for a role you can truly make your own - where you can collaborate with subject matter experts, contribute your ideas, and make a meaningful impact - we want to hear from you.

About You

You will be a highly capable and driven Project Manager with proven experience delivering large‑scale infrastructure and complex building projects. Your proactive approach, combined with strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, will enable you to bring diverse community projects to successful completion.

You will thrive in a complex matrix environment, confidently managing all aspects of project delivery—from planning and design through to construction and handover. Your ability to navigate multiple priorities, influence outcomes, and collaborate across disciplines will be key to bringing projects across the line.

In this role, you will play a critical part in delivering meaningful community outcomes and shaping the future vision of the City of Ryde. You will lead by example—living our values, empowering our people, and contributing to a culture of high performance and continuous improvement.

In addition, you will also have:

• Exceptional knowledge of legislation, regulations, design standards, and code of practice relation to the construction and management of infrastructure.
• Significant experience in the management of project finances and budgets, business planning, tendering and contract administration.
• Superior interpersonal skills with proven ability to influence, negotiate, and achieve positive outcomes / resolve complex project management and contractual issues with stakeholders.
• Wide ranging technical knowledge base and experience formulating and implementing innovative project management solutions.
• Excellent written communication skills including the ability to research new subject areas, provide executive level reports, and prepare contract specifications.
• Expert computer skills and proven experience in project management software programs, especially MS Project and MS Project Integration or equivalent program/portfolio scheduling tool
• Degree level qualification in Civil Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management or similar.
• Graduate diploma in Project Management or significant previous experience

Your commencing annual salary will be negotiable for the right applicant,dependent on your experience and qualifications.

• Commitment to providing opportunities for work/life balance
• Hybrid work from home and office arrangements available for eligible positions
• Flexibility regarding start and finish times to suit your lifestyle
• Work 37.5 hours and enjoy one RDO every 3 weeks
• Long service leave after 5 years, then accrued monthly
• 18 weeks paid parental leave (for eligible employees)
• 3 extra leave days at Christmas to ensure you have time to enjoy the holiday + 5 days MyLeave
• Annual performance reviews and Award increases
• Opportunity to sign up as a fitness passport member
• Various health & well‑being initiatives (i.e. flu vaccinations, etc.)

City of Ryde is committed to Equal Employment and Child Safety