Apply: Project Director - Construction

Reference: BH-183852
Job Title: Project Director
Start Date: ASAP, pending checks
End Date/ Duration: 12 months from the start date.
Daily Rate: $900 per day + super 
WFH: 2-3 Days Office
Location | Based out of Everleigh Office
 
Purpose of the Role: 

The Project Director will lead and manage the project teams through project governance and formation to deliver the major capital works outcomes.

Key accountabilitie

Sole accountability for the delivery of assigned projects, including:
  • Support Senior Project Director (SPD) to lead, motivate and mentor members of the project team to build commitment to shared goals, develop effective working relationships, and create a customer focused culture.
  • Support SPD to direct, lead and mentor team members, monitor and review staff performance, foster ongoing professional development and ensure staff have the knowledge, skills and support to achieve their performance objectives to drive high performance, best practice and continuous improvement.
  • Manage the project team to ensure achievement of the key accountabilities of their role description.
Manage a portfolio of projects, with sole accountability for:
  • Developing procurement and contracting strategies and ensuring alignment with procurement policy, with a focus on the end user, value for money, project timing, innovation and future use
  • Managing the payments of consultants and contractors in accordance with legislation and contracts.
  • Planning and managing the forward works project procurement, including engaging consultants and contractors responsible for delivering individual projects and ensuring the best quality services for NSW Schools.
  • Provide timely and accurate project reporting, including cash flows, program milestones, and critical ministerial reporting.
  • Develop project briefs, project plans and risk management plans for individual projects. Prepare information promptly in succinct and plain English to suit NSW Government briefing and communication requirements. Tailor information to suit relevant audiences to communicate complex information clearly.
  • Ensure the correct statutory planning approval pathway is identified and undertaken for individual projects and programs, including consultation with relevant statutory authorities.
  • Provide mentoring and guidance to ensure personal and organisational development objectives are achieved and provide team building direction and support to create a positive work environment.
  • Manage external Project Manager and Cost Manager to ensure contractual obligations are met by service providers, design teams and building contractors.

Selection criteria
  • Relevant tertiary and/or post graduate qualifications in Construction, Engineering, Project Management or related fields.
  • 10+ years of relevant project planning and delivery experience, preferably gained in a large, complex and decentralized work environment.
Managing portfolios of projects with individual value of less than $75M:
  • Proven experience in the successful project management of construction projects to a value of more than $20 million in a commercial environment.
  • Proven experience in delivering projects with multiple simultaneous phases and/or at multiple discrete locations.
  • Proven experience of long duration delivery projects, typically up to 3 years, with several influential stakeholders and a potential for conflict.
  • Strong leadership of small teams and demonstrated experience providing constructive feedback to others around their performance, strengths and development needs.
  • Proven experience in a diverse team environment, requiring effective collaboration with other support functions and reporting to multiple senior stakeholders.
  • Ability to apply guidelines, standards and processes which are generally clear and established, but have potential for ambiguity in some areas.
  • Ability to respond to unpredictable risks and manage a number of simultaneous/overlapping phases across multiple projects.
  • Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal Education policies and Code of Conduct.
  • Current driver’s license.
Company Background:

Ethos BeathChapman (EBC) is a global group of executive recruitment experts in Australia, Asia and EMEA, with a broader network beyond. We connect exceptional people to exceptional companies.

EBC’s mid-sized agility and solutions-focused approach enables us to flex where traditional recruitment agencies have failed, and scale beyond the reach of boutiques. Our multidisciplinary expertise covers corporate and specialised functions across Finance, Technology, Commerce and Government recruitment markets, among others.

Established 2005 in Sydney, EBC today has six offices worldwide in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands and the UK. Part of the Nikkei-listed Will Group, Inc, we own Quay Appointments and our staffing and managed solutions specialists, CONNECT.

Let’s connect, and make exceptional happen, together: www.ethosbc.com

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