Project Manager - Clean Energy / Melbourne

Currently seeking an experienced Project Manager to join a growing Australian team in Melbourne, Victoria. Use your engineering and project management skills to help deliver next-generation energy resource solutions, including energy storage and solar, for the electric power system, and see your solutions deployed with real-world customers who are incorporating distributed energy resources into the grid.

This position requires a fair amount of travel across the eastern coast of Australia.

Primary responsibilities of the role:

• Manage effective delivery of engineering, procurement construction of for megawatt-scale, grid connected energy storage projects.
• Control contracts, schedule, budgets, and resources required for the delivery of projects.
• Provide weekly and monthly report on project progress, forecasting of required funds with all risks and mitigation proposals highlighted
• Collaborate with internal & external stakeholders to deliver solutions to
• Set up meetings with customers and partners, develop meeting agendas, and drive meetings.
• Efficiently and effectively track issues throughout the life of active projects.
• Manage the change order process with customers and vendors.

 
Qualifications & required experience:

• Qualification in Project Management
• 5 years+ of project management experience (Solar or Battery Storage)
• Ability to coordinate effective labour resource plans, procurement, and delivery of materials to remain close to project forecasts and delivery of services.
• Previous experience with planning, organising, and coordinating delivery requirements of major infrastructure projects.
• Contract knowledge and ability to adhere to obligations under the contract.
• Experience operating and implementing work programs within site, managing sub consultants, financial management and reporting.
• Ability to review the standard and progress of subcontractors’ work.
• Ability to understand and adhere to building legislation
• Experience creating effective and efficient project sign-off processes to ensure projects are finished on time and within budget.
• Strong construction management skills and experience with projects that focus on coordination and quality control of energy system construction.

Highly Regarded but not essential - experience working with construction of Electrical Transmission & Substation projects