Project Director

About the Opportunity

Major Projects
Position No: 00033499
Salary/Level: Level 9, $180,367 - $193,487 pa, PSCSAA 20241x
Full-Time, Fixed Term position available
Come join the team at the new Department of Housing and Works.
The Department of Housing and Works delivers and maintains essential social housing and critical infrastructure across Western Australia—including schools, hospitals and police facilities.
We manage tenancy services, support housing provision in remote Aboriginal communities, and oversee government employee accommodation.
Through office accommodation solutions, State Fleet management, procurement, planning and asset policy, we empower other government agencies to deliver their best.
We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, and culturally and linguistically diverse people.
We are committed to ensuring our hiring processes are inclusive. If you are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person, young person or person with disability seeking assistance with your application, please contact Jobs and Skills WA on 13 64 64. If you are a person living with disability and require any adjustments or accommodations, please contact Cherie Rogers on (08) 6551 1979 or via email at cherie.rogers@dohw.wa.gov.au. You can also reach us through the National Relay Service.

Benefits

• Flexible work options, including working from home up to 2 days per week.
• Professional development, training, and on-the-job learning to advance your career.
• Generous leave entitlements, which include 4 weeks annual leave, 3 public service holidays each year, accrued long service leave every 7 years and an option to purchase additional leave each year.
• Access to cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• Modern workspaces, where you choose your workspace that assists you to do your best work.
• Access to activity-based work hubs in the CBD, Fremantle and Joondalup for ad hoc flexible work.
• Corporate discounts with selected health insurance providers and access to wellness programs.
• Opportunity to support our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Disability Access and Inclusion Plan, Indigenous Network, Gender Equity Champions Group, and Youth Working Group.

About The Role

The Project Director (Design and Build) for the New Women and Babies Hospital Project (NWBHP) will be responsible for overseeing the managing contractor’s design and construction deliverables to ensure compliance with the contract and performance brief as well as to approved scope, budget, and timeframe parameters. The role will report directly to the Senior Project Director NWBHP.
The position holder will lead a multi-functional team including the State’s technical advisory consultants. The successful applicant will have demonstrated experience in the design management and contract management of complex, major infrastructure projects and evidence leadership behaviours that drive a ‘one team’ collaborative approach between the managing contractor and key agency stakeholders to achieve project objectives.

About You

You are a dynamic, self-aware, and resilient individual that achieves results and identifies opportunities for the Department to leverage. You will possess strong technical project management skills across the full project life cycle, including demonstrated experience in all aspects of major project delivery, including design management, contract management, procurement, scheduling. You are a well-rounded leader and effective manager of project teams and work groups and support team members to develop and implement processes, systems and model and drive behaviours that enable effective project delivery. You monitor and ensure compliance with government, agency and public sector policy and process. You establish and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders and contribute towards an innovative, customer focused, high-performing and values-led organisational culture.

How to Apply

If you think you have what it takes to be a part of our dynamic and forward thinking team, please click the “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” button and you will be redirected to WA Government Jobs and follow the advertising instructions. If not directed straight to the position, please key the position number into the web search box.
Please ensure you apply before the closing deadline as we won’t accept late and incomplete applications.

Further Job Related Information

For further information about the position please contact Cherie Rogers on (08) 6551 1979 or via email at cherie.rogers@dohw.wa.gov.au (not to be contacted for Applicant Information Packs or assistance with lodging your application).
Currently there is one (1) full-time, fixed-term appointment available for filling from November 2025 until September 2029, with the possibility of further extension(s) and/or permanency. Whilst this selection process will initially be used to appoint to this advertised vacancy, it may also be used to appoint to similar positions that may arise in the Agency within the next twenty four (24) months on a full-time, part-time, permanent or fixed-term basis with the possibility of further extension(s) and/or permanency.
Closing Date: Friday, 22 August 2025 at 4:00pm (AWST) The Department may conduct an Executive Search to supplement the field of applicants.