Project Manager

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Are you an experienced Project Manager with a passion for leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and executing complex projects? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment and enjoy working with diverse teams to ensure smooth operations? If so, we invite you to explore an exciting opportunity at Nufarm, where you can contribute to our global success and advance your career.
Nufarm. Evolving Ag.
Nufarm is a global crop protection and seeds technologies company that helps farmers and businesses meet the global challenges of food, feed, fibre and food production. Whether it's commercialising the world's first plant-based omega-3, launching precision agricultural solutions, unlocking biomass oils for more sustainable fuels and fast-moving consumer goods, launching innovative new crop protection solutions or delivering the crop and seed solutions farmers depend on every day, Nufarm is evolving with agriculture to drive value for customers.

Your Future, Fuelled by Innovation
Based in Laverton North at our Pipe Road chemical manufacturing facility, we're looking to engage a Project Manager with extensive (10 years+) within our Project Management Team In the role of Project Manager, who will be accountable to lead people and projects from initial phase through to completion whilst managing all project team resourcing. They will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing all phases of a project, delegating tasks to team members, ensuring targets are met and reporting to senior management and other collaborators.

• Employee Share Plan (Shares in Nufarm)
• Health Benefits
• Onsite Café
• Great Team and ability to work within Agchem in Australia

How You'll Help Us Grow

• Develop project management plans and capital expenditure funding estimates in agreed customer requirements and timeline.
• Lead technical challenges, provide leadership and guidance to Project Engineers
• Coordinate execution of Capital works element to deliver projects in spec, with minimum total cost of ownership , on time, on budget meeting company Zero Harm safety commitment.
• Manage an effective project management framework that guarantees compliance to corporate and regulatory OHS and Process Safety Management requirements as well as legislative Engineering Standards
• Manage and report project portfolio, schedules, project resourcing, risks, quality and costs to meet budget and timely delivery of projects
• Utilise Nufarm financial accounting methodologies, contract/tender management systems and procurement methodologies during the execution of projects
• Provide subject matter expertise in Project Management, technology best practice, Lowest life cycle cost vs Lowest installed cost and construction safety.
• Ensure Management Of Change process is followed within area of responsibility.
• Manage project close out in a timely manner to capture all asset data and construction records.
• Previous experience in manufacturing is preferred.

Could This Be You?
You're Tertiary qualified in Engineering and bring extensive experience in manufacturing project management across multidisciplinary teams.

You have a strong scientific approach to solving problems, the ability to make data-based decisions, and you're comfortable working in a team environment with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation. You have previous experience leading a technical team.

If you want to be a part of a thriving, supportive environment and are inspired by the prospect of being a part of something bigger, we'd love to hear from you. Nufarm is proud to be recognised as an endorsed employer of choice for all women by Work180.

A note to recruitment agencies
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