AddressAPA is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business. We own and/or manage and operate a diverse, $22 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets. Consistent with our purpose to strengthen communities through responsible energy, we deliver approximately half of the nation's gas usage and connect Victoria with South Australia, Tasmania with Victoria and New South Wales with Queensland through our investments in electricity transmission assets. We are also one of the largest owners and operators of renewable power generation assets in Australia, with wind and solar projects across the country.
We employ more than 2,200 people across Australia and know that they are the key to our success. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture, where all our people feel safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.
The Opportunity
We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Project Manager to join our Assets and Operations team on a Permanent Full-Time basis.
Reporting to the Project Management Lead, you will play a key role in successfully managing and delivering technology projects, ensuring projects are delivered to agreed scope, schedule and within budget, delivering the outcomes to quality requirements, applicable standards whilst complying with APA processes and procedures.
The location for this role is flexible and hybrid; we will consider Brisbane or Adelaide locations.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading and guiding a project team (10-15 indirect reports)
- Being accountable for meeting project milestones, objectives and deliverables within agreed timeframes and budgets
- Developing, maintaining and delivering fit-for-purpose project management plans and progress reporting, ensuring the appropriate alignment and allocation of resources.
- Effectively identifying, engaging, influencing and negotiating with key project stakeholders, internal and external including vendors, to achieve project outcomes and benefits
- Working closely with the project sponsors and owners to ensure the project delivers the right outcomes to meet business requirements
- Monitoring project actuals, forecasts, and benefits against budget allocation
- Effectively managing the risks associated with the delivery of complex projects through the preparation of detailed mitigation strategies and contingency plans, regular monitoring and control of activities and escalate where necessary
- Ensuring the project is aligned in design and delivery to wider business unit plans
Your Background
Seeking a Senior Project manager with demonstrated experience in leading project teams on large, complex projects (leadership and stakeholder management skills are essential). As we currently operate in a predominantly hybrid / waterfall environment, we appreciate someone with broad and varied exposure to management tools, lifecycles and methodologies.
Tertiary qualifications in IT and/or Business as well as Project Management qualifications and certifications and significant delivery experience covering both Agile and traditional project delivery methodologies/frameworks (e.g PMBOK and PRINCE2) is highly regarded.
Beyond the analytical and problem solving / decision making skills required of the Senior Project Manager, at APA, we recognise that our people are the core of our business and as a result, we are seeking likeminded, nimble, forward-thinking and collaborate individuals who share the same passion for fostering authentic relationships built on trust, integrity, and credibility.
About the Team
Technology underpins everything we do at APA from helping connect millions of Australians to essential energy sources every day to achieving our net zero ambition - and the capability for our people to make this happen.
To help APA power ahead, the Technology teams is focused on enhancing APAs technology offering, providing innovative and progressive technology - enabling APA to be world class in energy solutions.
This is an exciting time for the team, we need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact - change makers and risk takers.
Working at APA
APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety and sustainability of our people, community and environment is our focus. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.
APA provides you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, work life life balance and wellbeing programs. APA also have an inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents throughout their parenting journey.
Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.
Sound like your kind of career? We'd love to hear from you.
Role closes Friday 1st of March at 9pm. Role Reference number 4887.
PD is available on request by emailing recruitment@apa.com.au quoting reference number above
