Executive Project Manager - Melbourne - Civil Infrastructure

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Detail information about job Executive Project Manager - Melbourne - Civil Infrastructure. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Global engineering consultancy with great career opportunities
• Opportunity to work on a variety of interesting projects both locally and internationally
• Friendly working environment across the business

About SMEC

SMEC has joined forces with Surbana Jurong to provide global engineering and consultancy expertise in urban, infrastructure and management advisory. Our new partnership has created a talent pool of 13,000 dedicated people working across a network of 95 offices in 40 countries.

SMEC employs passionate and innovative people who are driven to deliver exceptional outcomes and who want to feel valued in a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We are committed to developing our people. We encourage them to see things differently, to be creative, to push boundaries and to work on a broad range of projects that help build a better future.

Consistently recognised for technical excellence and design innovation, SMEC continues to receive industry awards and accolades from around the world. 

Explore what your career could look like at SMEC through our employee profile videos [link removed] and our thought leadership blog InFocus [link removed].

The role

We are currently looking for an Executive Project Manager in our Melbourne (Docklands) office. 

The role is primarily responsible for applying high-level innovative, economical and practical methods to drive the success of complex, high-priority projects across major infrastructure projects.

This position manages a variety of divergent activities and large teams across various disciplines, providing expert knowledge when required, as well as effective leadership, management and development opportunities to project employees.

The Executive Project Manager is responsible for building SMEC’s reputation as a leading consultant with a strong brand and reputation for innovation, technical excellence, quality and project delivery, as well as growing the business through targeted client relationship management.

Lead successful negotiations of commercial and financial outcomes using highly-developed business acumen resulting in engagement on large-scale and nationally significant disciplinary projects ($10+ million)

 Key Accountabilities:

• Lead project management and governance of large, complex and nationally-significant projects to achieve reliable project performance in terms of commercial outcomes, sophistication, design solutions, timeliness and quality
• Support the Region to achieve sustainable growth of the business through targeted client relationship management (CRM) and business development (BD) activity
• Provide leadership and proactively collaborate with team members, contributors and stakeholders to maintain quality, timeliness and coordination of project deliverables
• Significant active contribution to the commercial success of projects and the team; playing an essential role in driving successful business development activities

Suitable applicants will have:

• Local experience successfully delivering major civil infrastructure projects 
• 20+ years of experience managing civil infrastructure projects of >$10m successfully to budget and client specifications
• Extensive experience in the management, design and delivery of complex projects of national significance within multi-disciplinary engineering projects
• High level communication skills to advise and guide project design development in a pro-active manner and to represent the SMEC design team as a valuable contributor to the project
• Successfully lead, motivate, manage, develop and resource a high-performing team
• Successfully monitored and managed the scope and risk of multiple complex and varying size projects and apply business systems
• Built and maintained trusting and effective relationships with key clients and stakeholders, and deliver excellent client service
• Delivered best client outcomes in multiple instances which have resulted in client cost savings and prevented community issues
• Extensive experience in business development
• Effectively engage key stakeholders to result in superior project outcomes which meet or exceed client expectations

In return, SMEC offers you the benefits that come from working in a global multidisciplinary consultancy in an environment where your fresh ideas and enthusiasm will be welcomed and rewarded.

SMEC is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is a source of strength for our people, our clients, our partners and our communities.

To find out more about SMEC, please visit our careers page at www.smec.com/careers

How to apply

All applications must be submitted online. To apply, click on the "Apply Now" link below and follow the prompts.

For a confidential discussion regarding this opportunity, please contact Nicholas Fischer-White – [email protected]

To find out more about SMEC, please visit our careers page at www.smec.com/careers

All recruitment activities go through our Resourcing function and currently, this role doesn’t require agency input. Please do not forward resumes directly to SMEC employees/managers; we do not accept unsolicited resumes and are not responsible for any associated fees.