Location: Victoria, Australia
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
When you choose AusNet, you'll join genuine people working together, making Real. Progress
At AusNet, we're the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.
Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia's cleaner energy future.
Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That's refreshing. Join our team as an Assistant Project Development Manager and play a crucial role in delivering a portfolio of transmission-scale generation and load connection projects. AusNet's Infrastructure portfolio includes high-voltage transmission lines, terminal stations, large-scale renewable energy assets, and utility-scale batteries, all vital to Australia's energy transition.
In this role, you will support the Senior Project Development Manager and assist in managing the Development and Bid stages of transmission connections. Your responsibilities will include coordinating procurement, engineering, land, planning, stakeholder, environment, regulatory, commercial, and legal activities to bring projects to financial close and handover to delivery. You will also manage the development process of connection projects as assigned by the Head of Project Development.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team of high-performing professionals, ensuring projects are successfully converted into investments while managing risks across design, construction, and ongoing operations and maintenance. You will be at the forefront of shaping Australia's renewable energy future.
With a 3/2 hybrid split between office and work-from-home, this role is based in Southbank and is part of the Development & Future Networks team.
This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to: Assisting the PDM/SPDM in the delivery of projects within the allocated budgets in a timely, efficient and effective manner. The role involves supporting the coordination/management of multidisciplinary project teams consisting of internal and external resources, e.g., engineering, planning, commercial, etc. Preparing project reports, creating and maintaining project schedules and tracking project costs and other financial metrics Managing relationships with relevant stakeholders, internal and external Management of contracts and contractors, requisitions, orders and invoices associated with assigned projects Development of required inputs for management papers and commercial negotiations as required Assist the Head of Project Development and Project Development team on general matters as required You don't need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of: A relevant tertiary qualification in Project Management, Engineering or associated discipline (or relevant qualification equivalent to) Experience in Management Consulting and/or Project Management on infrastructure projects preferred Project support experience in Project Development in an Infrastructure environment e.g. renewables, utilities or similar industry Excellent written and verbal communication skills which evidence a high capacity to influence at all levels including executives Good interpersonal skills that enable communication and work with all levels of internal stakeholders and external customers / suppliers Experience in managing virtual teams including functions such as legal, finance, engineering consultants, etc. or ability to do so Highly skilled in MS Excel and preferably MS Project or similar scheduling software Strong commercial and financial acumen. Exposure to commercial negotiation Strong attention to detail and analytically minded Ability to drive outcomes through stakeholder management to consistently meet project deadlines A real place to belong.
We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.
We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here's what sets us apart: Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we'll work with you to help balance work and life Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you Perks: we offer all the other perks you've come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more As an industry in transformation, we're excited by the possibilities ahead. So, if you're passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.
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