Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning
Occupation: Projects
Reference: 5127
About the Role
Flexible position across Sunshine, Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong
Functioning with minimal supervision, this position plays a pivotal role in guaranteeing the Department of Transport's successful execution of vital road projects. As the leader within this domain, the incumbent oversees diverse tasks to ensure projects adhere to strict timelines, financial constraints, and stringent quality and safety benchmarks. Reporting directly to the Team Leader- Planned Maintenance, the Project Leader assumes responsibility for furnishing specialized insights into project planning, design, procurement, contract formulation, and execution of works, as well as overseeing surveillance activities and navigating complex stakeholder engagements. Moreover, effective financial oversight is integral to this role. The primary scope associated with these roles are the delivery of Pavement Resurfacing, Rehabilitation, Major Patching, and Line marking within Maintenance Operations.
The Project Leader actively contributes to shaping and implementing project initiatives, aligning them with the Department's overarching strategic goals and fostering constructive relationships with stakeholders. A key component of this role entails fostering collaborative ties with municipalities, utility agencies, contractors, and other departments within the Victorian State Government. Collaborating closely with project teams, the incumbent monitors progress diligently to ensure seamless project delivery across all facets: cost efficiency, adherence to timelines, quality standards, and effective stakeholder management.
In addition, the Senior Project Engineer ensures rigorous adherence to legislative mandates, leveraging advanced contract management skills, and applying professional expertise to uphold project integrity and efficacy.
Key Responsibilities
Effective Delivery of Projects – Has effectively delivered projects ensuring that budget, schedule, environmental, safety and quality outcomes are achieved.
Stakeholder Management and Community Engagement – The incumbent has actively engaged with key stakeholders and the community.
Supplier Engagement – With support of Commercial Team engages suppliers to ensure the timely completion of commercial and project deliverables.
Quality and Risk Management – The incumbent ensures that projects meet and are delivered in accordance with project management, financial, risk, quality, safety procedures and policy and complies with regulations.
Promote and support safe, inclusive and flexible team operations.
Key Selection Criteria
To be successful in the role the ideal candidate will involve defining tasks, coordinating execution, and monitoring progress to ensure timely delivery of outcomes. With your adept stakeholder management skills, you'll enhance client satisfaction and address stakeholder issues effectively. Understanding the business and commercial aspects, you'll optimize operations and oversee engagements with external vendors, ensuring adherence to agreements. Your strong interpersonal skills will enable you to empathize with stakeholders, tailor communications, and drive service delivery. Additionally, you'll contribute to strategic planning by aligning daily activities with organizational goals, setting objectives, and guiding the team towards success.
Personal Attributes
On a personal level the candidate will embrace feedback, prioritize outcomes, and adapt to changing priorities seamlessly. Your confidence in communicating opinions and ability to collaborate with diverse teams are essential. Drive strategic direction, fostering a sense of purpose by connecting work to community impact.
Qualifications and Experience
Mandatory
Experience at managing infrastructure projects.
A relevant tertiary degree in engineering, project management or at significant and equivalent experience.
Role Requirements
Drivers License
What we offer
Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable.
Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services.
A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork.
Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements.
Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs.
We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture.
Culture Value
We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.
How to Apply
Click the ' Apply ' button and follow the prompts. Applications should include a resume and a cover letter.
Applications close 11.59pm on Wednesday the 28th of August, 2024.
For further information about the role please contact Con Bourmas at ****** or Peter Gibss at ******.
Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Transport and Planning will be treated in the strictest confidence.
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Job type: Ongoing - Full Time
Job classification: VPSG4
Contact: ****** - Team Leader, Planned Maintenance Barwon South West Grampians Peter Gibss - N/A
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