Project Manager

Responsibilities

Manage a mixed portfolio of facilities, refurbishment, and capital works projects from initial scoping through to operational handover. Coordinate stakeholders, consultants, and contractors while ensuring safety, quality, and minimal disruption to school operations.

Requirements

Requires demonstrated experience in delivering facilities or capital works projects within live operational environments. Candidates must hold a relevant tertiary, vocational, or trade qualification, along with a construction industry White Card and a driver's license.

Skills

• Project management
• Procurement
• Tender management
• Cost control
• Risk management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Contract administration
• Facilities management
• Construction management
• Budgeting
• Scheduling
• Reporting
• Compliance
• Building services

Benefits

• Training and development
• Healthcare discounts
• Retail savings
• Car purchase savings
• Employee Assistance Program

About this role

We currently have an opportunity for a Project Manager. Join our Health and
Education team and play a key role in safely delivering facilities,
refurbishment and capital works projects across the SA Schools PPP portfolio.
 
Reporting to the Asset Manager, you’ll manage projects from early scoping and
procurement through construction, commissioning, financial close-out and
handover. Working across live school environments, you’ll balance safety,
quality, commercial requirements and stakeholder needs to deliver successful
project outcomes.
 
What You'll Do
 
This role offers a broad scope, with key responsibilities including:
* Manage a mixed portfolio of minor works, lifecycle, modification and
higher-value capital projects from scope development through to operational
handover.
* Develop project briefs, scopes, budgets, schedules, risk registers, delivery
strategies and reporting requirements.
* Lead RFQ and tender processes, including documentation, market engagement,
evaluation, recommendations and contractor appointment.
* Control project costs, forecasts, progress claims, variations, commitments
and commercial correspondence.
* Coordinate schools, clients, operational teams, consultants and contractors
while maintaining safety, quality, compliance and minimal disruption to
school operations.
 

What You'll Bring

* Demonstrated experience delivering facilities, building services,
refurbishment or capital works projects from scoping through to handover.
* Proven capability managing minor works and larger capital projects in live
operational environments.
* Experience managing procurement, RFQ and tender processes, tender evaluation,
contractor appointment and contract administration.
* Strong project planning, scheduling, cost control, risk management,
commercial and stakeholder engagement capability.
* A relevant tertiary, vocational or trade qualification. An HVAC or electrical
trade background will be highly regarded.

 
Experience within education, health, public infrastructure, PPP or integrated
facilities management environments will be highly regarded. A formal project
management qualification such as PRINCE2 or PMP is desirable. You’ll also
require a current construction industry White Card and unrestricted driver
licence, or the capacity to obtain these before commencing site duties.
More than anything, you’ll bring a strong work ethic, a positive attitude and a
commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes for our clients.
 

Why Downer?

Downer plans, creates and sustains essential public services across Australia
and New Zealand. From hospitals to data centres and defence partnerships, we
manage critical infrastructure that keeps communities thriving.
 

What it means to belong at Downer

We’re proud of our high-performance culture and commitment to diversity,
offering:
 

* Training and development to support and diversify your career.

* With 30% of vacancies filled internally, you’ll find real opportunities to
advance your career.

* Perks@Downer, including healthcare discounts and savings on retail and car
purchases.

* Employee Assistance Program providing professional support for you and your
family when you need it most.

You want your work to matter and so do we. With over 26,000 people across
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, our team is made up of individuals with
unique perspectives, backgrounds and ideas.

We know that diversity makes us stronger and we actively celebrate it through
our commitment to inclusion and belonging.

We’re committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we
serve and welcome people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultures,
abilities and lived experiences. We especially encourage applications from those
whose voices have traditionally been underrepresented in our industry, including
women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Māori and Pasifika
Peoples, veterans, people with disability and neurodivergent individuals. Even
if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with this role, we’d still like to
hear from you. If it feels like the right fit, apply. Potential counts, and so
do you.

As a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we support flexibility that works for your life,
inclusive leadership that values your voice and equitable access to opportunity
so you can do your best work and bring your whole self to it.

If you need support or adjustments through the recruitment process, just let us
know. We’re here to help you put your best foot forward.

About Downer

Civil Engineering · 10,001+ employees · headquartered in North Ryde, NSW · founded 1933