Project Manager

About the Opportunity

Are you a motivated professional with a proactive mindset, ready to take the next step in your career?

Ventia is hiring a Project Manager to join our Across Government Facilities Management Arrangement (AGFMA) contract. AGFMA delivers facilities management services to more than 5,000 government-owned sites across 48 South Australian government agencies, including schools, hospitals, courts and police stations.

This permanent, full-time role will support infrastructure projects across AGFMA’s diverse portfolio, including education, justice, community services, and health.

Based across the greater metropolitan Adelaide region, the role involves travel for site visits as required and offers a dynamic, hands-on project environment. You will be responsible for managing projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of quality and compliance. 

Benefits:

• Salary $134k TFR (inclusive of 12% superannuation). 
• A dynamic, supportive, and inclusive team culture where you can make a difference.
• Career growth and progression opportunities within one of the largest essential service providers in Australia and New Zealand.
• Access to a variety of health and wellbeing initiatives, including discounted health insurance and our employee assistance program.
• VenPerks: amazing discounts at over 450 retailers across Australia, including Woolworths, Coles, Booking.com, and Expedia.

What You’ll Be Doing: 

• Lead the project team to deliver key milestones, ensuring asset maintenance meets all project requirements, including sustainability and subcontractor performance.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, managing project delivery and escalations effectively.
• Collaborate with Project and Asset teams to provide insightful performance reports.
• Facilitate on-site activities, including kick-off meetings, toolbox talks, and safety sessions, ensuring SHEQ compliance.
• Ensure timely project completion, meeting milestones and KPI reporting frameworks, with occasional intrastate and interstate travel as required.

About You:

• Tertiary qualifications and demonstrated experience in Project Management.
• Strong technical skills and proficiency in project management software.
• Proven ability to manage subcontractors and deliver accurate project reporting, monitoring, and forecasting.
• Extensive experience overseeing the full lifecycle of facilities maintenance projects, balancing on-site coordination with operational planning.
• Effective leadership and communication skills, with the ability to guide teams and foster collaboration to achieve successful project outcomes.

About Ventia

As a leading services provider, we maintain, operate, and manage the essential infrastructure that makes modern life possible across Australia and New Zealand. With more than 35,000 employees and subcontractors across 400 sites, joining Ventia means becoming part of a team that values its people, supports career growth, and helps everyone go further towards their full potential.
 
Our commitment to Fairness, Inclusion and Respect shapes how we lead, collaborate, hire and support one another. We welcome applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all genders, identities, sexual orientations, beliefs and caring responsibilities. We are dedicated to providing an accessible recruitment process and encourage you to request adjustments at any stage.   

How to apply  

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Position Reference Number: 167390