Project Controller

GPA Engineering is a highly experienced, multidisciplinary engineering and management firm delivering engineering, procurement and construction management services for over 30 years. We develop, engineer and implement industrial scale projects across the oil & gas, defence, water treatment & distribution, mining & minerals, power generation & distribution, renewable energy and hydrogen sectors. With a commitment to providing quality assurance and maintaining environmental integrity, our people are highly qualified and additionally possess expertise to advise on project and risk management.

We are Australian-owned business with offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin and Perth; supporting clients wherever they are located including rural or remote Australia, or overseas. Our team is diverse, motivated and professional, aligning under our values of teamwork, integrity, quality, safety and sustainability.

We are a diverse, motivated and inquisitive team aligned under our values of teamwork, integrity, quality, safety and sustainability. We work collaboratively whilst harnessing and developing our individual strengths. We aspire to empower and support employees to reach their full potential, to take on challenges and grow through experience, training, coaching and development. GPA offers a great range of employee benefits including opportunities for work travel, paid parental leave, an active social club, structured career progression, flexibility and loads more, coupled with a great city office location.

We are committed to maintaining a workforce with meaningful equity and diversity, as well as a workplace that embraces and celebrates the value of all cultures and backgrounds.

GPA is a place where people can be their best each day. We are supportive in nature and natural in our leadership. We offer engaging and continuously developing career pathways.  We share stories and we have fun.

• Establishing and maintain simple and complex project schedules in MS Project.
• Scheduling of engineering projects using full logic and resource loading.
• Monitoring and analysing costs/budgets, resources, utilisation and overall project performance.
• Identifying critical issues and providing solutions.
• Preparing clear and concise progress reports: actual costs, earned value, s-curves.
• Tracking project deliverables and maintenance of project registers.
• Assisting with creation of scope changes.
• Document control for various local and national projects.
• Assisting with tender and proposal preparation.
• General project administration and coordination.

• Related experience in a multi-discipline Engineering/Design environment; a related tertiary qualification may be advantageous.
• Advanced skills in MS Office. 
• Experience with MS Project would be highly desirable;  or similar may be advantageous.
• Demonstrated ability as a logical thinker, planner, task-focused.
• Familiar with engineering and/or construction schedules, time constraints, resource allocations, risk and opportunities.
• High attention to detail and well organised.
• Good verbal and written communications skills. 
• An understanding of confidentiality and discretion.  
• Previous experience working in a team environment.
• Skills in building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• A mindset focused on solutions and customer service.