Manager Project Controls Standards - Major Projects

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We’re working at the heart of Queensland’s energy transformation. Now more than ever, we need people who want to help us deliver a world-class energy future and ensure we continue to navigate through this once in a generation energy challenge. Join us and make it happen.

As the Manager Project Controls Standards you’ll help us connect a more sustainable energy future for more than five million Queenslanders and 253,000 businesses. Your work with us is about every light turned on, every community connected, and every future made possible. 

• Family friendly and flexible working arrangements.
• Competitive remuneration package + 12.75% superannuation.
• Health & wellbeing benefits, including corporate health plan with employee discounts, annual flu vaccinations.
• Powerlink offers robust leadership development through integrated programs, fostering growth across all levels.

As a Manager Project Controls Standards accountable for the development, management and ownership of the Major Projects standards related to the core Project Controls disciplines of estimating, cost control, planning and scheduling, information and change management

• You will establish the Project Controls function and oversee the development of the relevant standards to support application of the industry best practice standards for estimating, cost control, planning and scheduling, information and change management across the portfolio.

• Lead the establishment of the Major Projects estimating data library while maintain ongoing engagement and transparency with the wider organisational estimating functions.
• Development of standardised schedules to improve the predictability of the outcomes across the portfolio and reducing variability of the outcomes in the early project stages.
• Overseeing the Project Controls Standards team to actively participate in the lessons learned, project review and project close out activities to capture actualised data and ensure key cost/schedule related risks are reflected in the standardised templates.

Our Major Projects Office exists to manage the governance and controls that underpin the lifecycle of our large-scale projects - establishing our strategic aspiration to become a major developer that safely delivers complex and significant CAPEX projects over the next decade.

Essential

• Degree level qualification in Engineering, Management, Business, Finance and/or lower level qualification in a relevant discipline if coupled with significant experience within a Project Controls function across a sizable portfolio of projects in the relevant industry.
• Close familiarity with the relevant planning (e.g. Primavera and MS Project), EVM, Cost Management and Estimating (e.g. EcoSys) tools and methodologies, as well as reporting platforms (e.g. Power BI).
• Proven experience working with high profile and significant projects.

We’d also love you to have:

• Extensive experience in project environment, with good understanding of both in greenfield and brownfield development and delivery.
• Demonstrated experience in Project Controls, both hands on and in a team leader capacity in a Major Projects environment.
• Proven ability to develop, own and maintain division-wide standards, frameworks, and procedures, ensuring their full embedment and consistent application.
• In-depth understanding of Project Lifecycle, from inception to commissioning, including ability to verify and challenge the application of the planning and scheduling and estimating techniques.

To kick start your career at Powerlink, apply by clicking the button above, attaching your resume and cover letter on our careers page before midnight on Sunday the 14th of April 2024. Kindly be aware that the Recruitment team will commence the review process during this period.

There’s lots to love about a career with Powerlink. But our people say there’s three things that really stand out: 

• A career that matters and lasts: You’ll shape a progressive career connecting more than five million Queenslanders to a world-class, clean energy future.
• Unique work and the chance to grow: You’ll help find smart solutions to interesting problems as you develop your skills and impact every day.
• People who love to support and share: You’ll build relationships with experienced, down-to-earth people who you’ll be proud to work with.

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