Senior Project Manager - Property & Commercial

• Full-time

Job Description

• Full time, Ongoing position at HEW Level 9.
• Hawkesbury campus with flexible working arrangements.
• Salary: $134,981 – $144,149 per annum, plus 17% Super and Leave Loading.

Lead complex capital and campus infrastructure projects that directly enable Western’s strategic priorities.

The Opportunity

As Senior Project Manager, you will provide leadership and expertise in delivering capital works and campus infrastructure projects across the University. Operating with a high level of autonomy, you will apply best practice project management approaches that support academic, operational, and strategic objectives, with a primary focus on delivering physical built-environment and infrastructure projects across the campus portfolio.

You will work across diverse stakeholder groups to implement projects that enhance the built environment and campus experience, including integration of supporting digital and operational systems where required. The role requires a high standard of governance, documentation, and reporting while contributing to a culture of collaboration, trust, and continuous improvement.

A key part of this role involves shaping project outcomes through strong planning, structured delivery methodologies, and alignment with organisational priorities. You will champion innovation, sustainability, and evidence-based decision making to ensure each initiative delivers long term value.

What Success Looks Like:

• Deliver end‑to‑end capital and property infrastructure projects from feasibility through to operational handover including planning, design development, consultant coordination, procurement, construction delivery, and close-out.
• Apply structured methodologies across infrastructure and property/capital works programs to achieve scope, budget, and timeframe commitments.
• Provide strategic project advice that supports senior stakeholder planning and decision‑making.
• Oversee risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting to ensure project assurance. 
• Prepare high quality documentation including business cases, feasibility studies, project plans, and governance papers.
• Manage external consultants, contractors, and builders through formal procurement and contract administration processes.
• Oversee on-site delivery outcomes, including WHS, constructability, and operational readiness.

Please refer to the Position Description for full details.

About You

• Tertiary qualifications in construction project management, architecture, engineering, or related disciplines, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience delivering client-side or principal-side construction/capital works projects.
• Demonstrated experience delivering projects across feasibility, design, procurement, and construction within complex organisations, with direct experience managing capital works, refurbishments, fit-outs, or new build projects
• Strong understanding of project governance, reporting, and change management practices.
• Proven ability to lead high‑performing teams and manage competing priorities across multi‑site environments. 
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within universities, government, health, or large institutional property portfolios is highly regarded.
• Demonstrated experience managing consultants, contractors, and construction contracts is essential.

Benefits

We invest in the people who make our mission possible. Beyond a rewarding career, we offer a suite of benefits designed to support your physical, financial, and family wellbeing:

• Fitness Passport: Access hundreds of gyms and pools across the state.
• Onsite Childcare: Convenient facilities with exclusive staff discounts and salary packaging options.
• Financial Benefits: Salary sacrifice options for onsite parking and novated motor vehicle leasing,
• Holistic Support: Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP) along with discounted retail and private health cover.

Application Details

• Position Enquiries: Direct to Ingrid Bascur Gonzalez, Director, Capital Program via ingrid.bascurgonzalez@westernsydney.edu.au. Please include the job reference code REF445F. 
• Closing Date: 11:59pm, Wednesday 11 March 2026.
• Working Rights: You must provide evidence of full-time working rights in Australia at application.
• How to Apply: Please note that only applications submitted via the University’s online recruitment system will be considered.

Belonging at Western

We are committed to substantive equality as outlined in our Equal Opportunity Policy. We actively encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, candidates of all gender identities and expressions, people of all abilities, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

For Reasonable Adjustments during the application process, please contact accessibility@westernsydney.edu.au.

About Western

This is your opportunity to be part of something bigger. By joining Western Sydney University, you become a valued member of our community. As our region changes, so too does our university. Western is boldly different, energetic, global, diverse, dynamic, and youthful.

Our mission is to deliver student success, impactful research, and stronger communities. As part of our team, you will have a stake in shaping the future of education, broadening horizons, and changing lives. Making a difference starts at Western.

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