Job Description
You will act as a key integrator across design, construction, commissioning, operations readiness, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring safe, efficient, and effective delivery while minimising disruption to live airport operations.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Portfolio Governance & Delivery: Support the Director in governing a complex program portfolio, applying structured methodologies to assure outcomes while managing risk and minimising disruption in a brownfield environment.
* Technical Leadership & Assurance: Provide technical oversight across design, constructability, integration, commissioning, and handover; translate technical risks into clear decisions and ensure compliance with QMS and regulatory standards. * Project Scope Definition: Lead stakeholder consultation, information gathering, and scoping activities; negotiate and agree deliverables, requirements, success criteria, and acceptance standards to ensure integration and alignment across concurrent programs and BAU work.
* Business Planning & Budgeting: Prepare and monitor annual plans for the delivery function; forecast resources and costs; manage variances; integrate KPIs and efficiency measures to meet financial governance requirements and performance targets. * Frameworks & Processes: Establish, maintain, and continuously improve governance frameworks, tools, templates, and reporting mechanisms; standardise delivery practices across teams; enable transparent, data-driven decision-making and effective stage-gate control.
* Performance Monitoring: Implement robust metrics and dashboards to track cost, schedule, risk, safety, quality, and compliance; lead performance reviews; drive corrective actions; ensure lessons learned and best practices are captured and reused across projects.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and execute stakeholder strategies for internal leaders, airlines/tenants, delivery partners/contractors, regulators, and the community; maintain alignment and timely communication; manage complex interfaces in live operations and negotiate outcomes that balance commercial, operational, and customer impacts. * Risk, Issues & Dependencies: Proactively identify, assess, and manage delivery risks, constraints, and interdependencies; implement mitigation and recovery plans consistent with Perth Airport's risk frameworks; ensure resilience planning for critical cutovers and operational change.
* Resource & Commercial Management: Oversee deployment of budgets, people, and contractors; align procurement and contract strategies with delivery needs; ensure commercial discipline, variation control, and claims management within governance thresholds.
* Assurance & Compliance: Manage assurance reviews and audits; resolve findings promptly; provide confidence that programs meet scope, schedule, budget, safety, and quality standards.
* Values, Safety & Customer Focus: Champion Perth Airport's values and safety culture; embed customer-centric practices; uphold governance and compliance in all live operational works.