Principal Project Manager

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Salary/Level: Level 8, $157,900 - $171,005 pa, PSCSAA 2024

Come join the team at the new Department of Housing and Works.

The Department of Housing and Works delivers and maintains essential social housing and critical infrastructure across Western Australia—including schools, hospitals and police facilities.

We manage tenancy services, support housing provision in remote Aboriginal communities, and oversee government employee accommodation.

Through office accommodation solutions, State Fleet management, procurement, planning and asset policy, we empower other government agencies to deliver their best.

We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, and culturally and linguistically diverse people.

We are committed to ensuring our hiring processes are inclusive. If you are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person, young person or person with disability seeking assistance with your application, please contact Jobs and Skills WA on 13 64 64. If you are a person living with disability and require any adjustments or accommodations, please contact Leonard Christine on (08) 6551 1694 or via email at christine.leonard@dohw.wa.gov.au. You can also reach us through the National Relay Service.

When you join us, you can enjoy a variety of benefits, including:

• flexible work options, including working from home up to 2 days per week.
• professional development, training, and on-the-job learningto advance your career.
• generous leave entitlements, which include 4 weeks annual leave, 3 public service holidays each year, accrued long service leave every 7 years and an option to purchase additional leave each year. Access to cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• modern workspaces, where you choose your workspace that assists you to do your best work.
• access to activity-based work hubs in the CBD, Fremantle and Joondalup for ad hoc flexible work.
• corporate discounts with selected health insurance providers and access to wellness programs.
• Opportunity to support our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Disability Access and Inclusion Plan, Indigenous Network, Gender Equity Champions Group, and Youth Working Group.

About The Role:

The Principal Project Manager (Digital) within Major Projects is responsible for ensuring the provision of strategy, direction and technical expertise to ensure that digital solutions are aligned with the existing and future state health information systems and support the transition to operations and commissioning of the Women and Babies Hospital (NWBHP).

This role ensures appropriate review and advice is provided for the delivery of all digital aspects of the NWBHP, including the design, procurement, installation, testing and commissioning and digital infrastructure implementation in accordance with the scope, schedule, quality standards and specifications. The role will include technical oversight of sophisticated hospital digital systems such as enterprise compute systems, network systems, nurse call, automated guided vehicles and pharmacy robotics.

The Principal Project Manager (Digital) coordinates the design and delivery of digital systems that form part of the NWBHP, ensuring that the outcomes are aligned with the NWBHP objectives, scope, and quality standards, and that any issues or risks are identified and resolved in a timely manner. The position will maintain visibility of proposed amendments to digital project scope and provide advice on potential risks of such amendments on the project as well as viable solutions to mitigate these risks including managing communications and collaboration among the digital team and the NWBHP team, as well as other stakeholder such as end-users, vendors, regulators and external consultants.

About You:

• You will possess an extensive understanding of the technical and commercial aspects of digital hospital delivery under a complex building procurement environment, ideally under a major project procurement methodology such as a managing contractor form of procurement;
• You will have an understanding of digital procurement by State Government and how it relates to Health service delivery;
• You have the ability to establish networks and communicate and negotiate effectively with key, high level stakeholders in a complex digital infrastructure project environment;
• You can demonstrate highly developed conceptual and analytical skills; and
• You will be passionate and committed to deliver value for money outcomes for the State and the community of WA as a whole.

This position operates in the context of Leading Others. This means that you will motivate and enable others to deliver high quality work. You will balance time between doing the work and coaching, guiding and developing others. This requires a significant shift in thinking from 'doing' to supporting others to 'do good work'; and consideration of present and future needs when allocating time to the team and projects you lead. You will articulate how work is to be done, providing clear direction and feedback.

How to Apply:

If you think you have what it takes to be a part of our dynamic and forward-thinking team, please click the "APPLY FOR THIS JOB" button and you will be redirected to WA Government Jobs and follow the advertising instructions. If not directed straight to the position, please key the position number into the web search box.

Please ensure you apply before the closing deadline as we won't accept late and incomplete applications.

Further Job-Related Information:

For further information about the position please contact Vincci Chow on 0422 238 481 (not to be contacted for Applicant Information Packs or assistance with lodging your application).

Currently there is one (1) full-time, fixed-term appointment for until 30 June 2030 available for immediate filling, with the possibility of further extension(s). Whilst this selection process will initially be used to appoint to this advertised vacancy, it may also be used to appoint to similar positions that may arise in the Agency within the next twenty-four (24) months on a full-time or part-time, fixed-term basis with the possibility of further extension(s).

Closing Date: Friday, 22 August 2025 at 4:00pm (AWST)

The Department may conduct an Executive Search to supplement the field of applicants.

Seniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionInformation Technology and Design
• IndustriesConstruction and Hospitals and Health Care

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