- Permanent Full-time Position • Flexible work location across Melbourne CBD office & garden regions.
- Working hours: Monday to Friday 6:40am – 3:10pm About the role
The Infrastructure Project Manager is responsible for the successful operational management of fixed assets (non-horticultural) and Infrastructure in the Melbourne Parks & Gardens Contract. This role leads the infrastructure team, ensuring the effective delivery of Asset and Infrastructure improvement programs via the Annual Service Plan, including but not limiting to:
·Cyclical and reactive maintenance
·Delivery of internal and external improvements/upgrades
·Management of contract variations; and,
·Maintaining accurate asset and infrastructure data
In addition, the role involves managing project budgets and building strong relationships with key stakeholders, Parks Services Branch and the City of Melbourne. Working with the HSE Coordinator, mitigate identified risks as far as practicable while ensuring the highest... level of safety and integrity are met at all times. The position is flexible in terms of location, allowing the ability to work across the Melbourne Parks and Gardens CBD offices and garden spaces.
About you
As the Infrastructure Project Manager for Melbourne Parks & Gardens you will have demonstrated experience in Project Management and team leadership. You will have excellent written and verbal communications skills, possess the ability to manage a team effectively and manage your own work schedule to meet deadlines. Additionally, you will manage strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders including subcontractors. You will ensure that services provided are of the highest quality, safe, client focused and support/promote business objectives. Importantly you will lead with personal integrity and bring a positive can-do attitude to the team.
To be successful in this role you will have:
Essential Criteria
·The highest levels of personal integrity and ethical behaviour.
·Current Driver’s License
·Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in team leadership and Project Management
·Tertiary in Business or Operational Management and/or Building Trade
·Must be passionate, proactive, committed and able to work unsupervised
·Possess attention to detail and a high energy level
·Undertakes duties in a safe and responsible manner
·Excellent computer system skills, written and verbal communication
·Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to interact with a variety of people from the general public to senior managers
Desirable (not essential) Criteria includes experience in:-
·Local Government Environment
·Large, complex Parks and Gardens Contracts
·Delivering Infrastructure Maintenance
·Waste Management
·Facility Cleaning
·Managing Contractors
This is a position of trust and responsibility and to support this we will conduct a thorough probity assessment, which includes a national police check as an essential selection component for this role.
Serco requires employees in this role to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people. Please consider this requirement when submitting your application.
About Us
Melbourne is known as one of the world’s most liveable cities and welcomes millions of visitors each year. Our Parks and Gardens team takes pride in helping Melbourne look its best by delivering first-class horticulture, water management, turf maintenance and infrastructure services across the city’s parks, gardens and open spaces.
Serco and Proud
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, but everyone also has an important role to play from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 60,000+ globally and 16,000+ in Asia Pacific responsible for delivering essential public services in areas including defence, justice, immigration, healthcare, facilities management and citizen services.
To learn more please visit www.serco.com/aspac
Join Us
If you are inspired to make a positive different and would like to be considered for this opportunity, please apply now.
Serco’s values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride underpin everything we do. We are curious, creative and collaborative. Our people matter and make a difference every day.
We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you will have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging
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