Project Officer

**About the role**
Ventia’s Defence Base Services (DBS) team have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced **Project Officer** to support our fast-paced Project Delivery team within Ventia’s Defence Base Services (DBS) contract. This is a permanent full-time role that offers flexibility around working from home and travel to the Northern Territory.
This role is pivotal as it provides vital support to assist with the delivery of successful outcomes across the DBS contract and is the link between relevant defence personnel, associated project consultants and contractors involved with a range of contracts. In addition, you will be directly managing minor works, end of project provisions post-construction including Ventia sub-contractors.

**About you**
Reporting directly into the Regional Project Delivery Manager, you are someone who enjoys being relied upon and building relationships and engaging with staff, sub-contractors, and stakeholders to ensure all works carried out are compliant with Commonwealth, State/Territory & Local Legislation, Regulations, Guidelines and Codes, Australian Standards and Defence Policy.

You are naturally a transactional outcome focused individual who can identify and prioritise problems and issues, generate solutions and work collaboratively to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. You have outstanding prioritising and organisational capabilities, a high degree of motivation, energy, and initiative, with the capacity to drive a culture of delivering excellence, whilst dealing with multiple and often conflicting priorities.

**Key duties, but not limited to**:

- Build and develop strong business relationships with Defence management.
- Drive the completion of all allocated enabling services that includes support to onsite activities.
- Understand customer needs and manage expectations, balancing them with commercial deliverables.
- Deliver consistent and timely advice on the operability and maintainability of estate items delivered by the project.
- Validate & verify updates to estate, compliance and contract data and documentation.
- Provide accurate and timely advice to relevant Defence personnel where required.

**Skills & experience**
- Tertiary qualification in Project Management or Business Administration and/or significant experience gained in Defence/Facilities Maintenance will be highly regarded.
- Strong focus on delivery of excellent customer service to key stakeholders of all levels
- Demonstrated technical understanding of the construction industry is highly regarded.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite, SAP or similar is desirable.
- Highly developed written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills

**Other special conditions**
The incumbent to this position must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Defence Security Clearance up to a level of negative vetting 1. As a result of this requirement the incumbent must be an Australian Citizen.
This position requires a National Police clearance check and a valid Australian driver’s licence.

**Benefits**
Ventia offers you a flexible, supportive, and inclusive work environment where you matter.
In addition, you will find a stimulating and rewarding working environment where we take our peoples careers seriously and help them to learn and grow.
This role comes with the added security of being offered as a permanent position.

**About the company**
Ventia is one of Australasia’s largest dedicated infrastructure service providers, Ventia is a new and dynamic organisation with a rich history. Our clients are the owners and operators of major infrastructure that is critical to our communities. No one else does exactly what we do in the way we do it. Making infrastructure work for our communities is at the heart of who we are and it’s what unites and excites us.

We acknowledge the importance of our people’s diverse experiences, talents and cultures. Embracing diversity and creating inclusion is a key component of our talent strategy. The creation of a diverse, inclusive workforce is central to our ability to unlock potential and enhance our success.

**How to apply**

**Position Reference Number:153177**

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