Project Lead

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Full Time - Fixed Term

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $92,332 - $104,762

Occupation: Projects

Reference: 5429

**About the Role**

**This is a Fixed term role for 2 years**

The role of the Project Lead is to lead the delivery of capital road projects using project management, contract management, and engineering knowledge to ensure compliance with agreed scope and DTP’s standards and specifications.

The role is to exercise independent professional judgement to plan, implement and monitor road and bridge works to achieve project scope, quality, cost, time, safety and environmental requirements in accordance with relevant policies and toolkits.

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**Position Outcomes**
- **Project Management & Assurance - **Exercise independent professional judgement to plan, procure, implement, and monitor road and bridge works to achieve project scope, quality, cost, time, safety and environmental requirements in accordance with relevant policies and toolkits
- **Project Monitoring -** Prepare, monitor and report on the physical and financial status of projects, and develop innovative responses to improve project outcomes and project processes
- **Construction and OH&S Advice - **Ability to understand and write contract specifications and service delivery in road and bridge design, construction and maintenance practices and standards to prepare and administer contracts for works
- **Quality and Risk Management** - Exercise independent professional judgement to anticipate and assess potential project risks, undertake/coordinate complex risk assessments and develop necessary mitigation plans
- **Community Engagement** - Engage and manage key stakeholders internally and externally
- **Supplier/Contractor Management** - Understand and hold supplier/contractor to account for technical, safety and permit requirements
- **Ways of Working** - Promote and support safe, inclusive and flexible team operations

**Personal Attributes**
- **Resilience (Applied) **- Gives frank and honest feedback/advice. Listens when ideas are challenged, seeks to understand the nature of criticism and respond constructively; Displays confidence and conviction when communicating an opinion
- **Outcomes Thinking (Applied) - **Works with a sense of purpose within the team and enables others to understand the strategic direction of the branch and organisation; Creates a sense of purpose within the team by establishing links between work and impact to the community
- **Working collaboratively (Applied) - **Build a supportive and cooperative team environment; Engages other teams to share information in order to understand or respond to issues; Support others in challenging situations

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Mandatory**
- A relevant tertiary qualification in engineering, project management or related discipline

**Desirable**
- 5+ years of construction experience
- Experience in liaising with contractors/clients

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise se the development of a safe and inclusive culture

**Culture Value**

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

**How to Apply