Project Specialist – Adelaide

When you join Tonkin, you become part of a team passionate about delivering exceptional outcomes that put people and community first.

Founded in 1955, Tonkin is on a strong, sustained growth journey, with a creative and progressive national team across nine offices in Australia. Proudly employee-owned, we provide imaginative and dependable engineering solutions to clients in both public and private sectors. With expertise marked by diversity and industry excellence, Tonkin is a national leader in the Water Industry.

Our growing pipeline of high-profile, large-scale, and complex frameworks and projects means we are looking for the best people to join us in realising our vision: to be Australia's infrastructure consultant of choice.

About the Role

We are currently seeking a proactive, detail-oriented, and self-driven Project Specialist to join our growing national team. This is a role offering a high degree of independence, where you'll play a key role in supporting project teams nationally in delivering successful project outcomes.

As a Project Specialist, you'll be responsible for driving the planning, coordination, and control functions across a portfolio of projects. Your focus will be on integrated project controls – including cost management, scheduling, reporting, and risk coordination, ensuring that projects remain on track, on budget, and aligned with strategic objectives.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working autonomously, thrives on structure, and can bring clarity and consistency to complex project environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules (MS Project) including milestones, task dependencies, and resource planning.
• Track progress against project baselines and provide performance updates to project managers and stakeholders.
• Support cost estimation, budget tracking, and financial forecasting across multiple projects.
• Conduct variance analysis and recommend corrective actions to mitigate risk.
• Work closely with project managers, engineers, and finance teams to align schedules and budgets with delivery expectations.
• Support change control processes by capturing scope changes and evaluating their impacts.
• Assist in the identification of risks and contribute to the development of mitigation strategies.
• Develop and maintain project documentation, dashboards, and structured reporting tools.
• Support project closeout activities by ensuring final deliverables, reporting, and documentation are completed accurately.
• Provide consistent project control support across a national portfolio, ensuring alignment with internal standards and best practices.

About You

• Tertiary qualification in Project Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated at least 3-5 years' experience in a project controls, project scheduling, or project coordination role, ideally in consulting environment.
• Proficiency in project management tools such as MS Project and Excel.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and reporting skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Experience supporting multi-disciplinary projects is highly regarded.

Job location

This role is based at Tonkin's state-of-the-art head office in Adelaide's CBD. Flexible/work-from-home arrangements may also be possible.

The Tonkin difference

We know people perform at their best when they enjoy coming to work.

At Tonkin we offer you the opportunity to work with leading industry experts in a genuinely supportive and caring environment. We provide flexibility because we know work-life balance is key. Our high-performing teams are underpinned by trust; empowering you to build your skills, progress your career quickly and work the way that is best for you.

Good people. Challenging projects. Caring environment. That's Tonkin.

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For further information about Tonkin and to view our other vacancies, please visit: https://tonkin.com.au/current-opportunities

Tonkin will only consider applications submitted directly by candidates. We will not accept or consider any applications from recruiters or recruitment agencies for this position unless requested.