
Project Manager - Contracts
Tweed Shire Council
Posted 13 days ago
We are seeking experienced Project Managers to deliver expert project management services across a diverse range of infrastructure projects. This role is responsible for providing high-level professional and technical advice, as well as reviewing and supervising contracts, engineering designs, and construction methods for civil, mechanical, electrical, and building works. Join our team and play a vital role in delivering high-quality, efficient, and compliant outcomes that support Council’s strategic objectives.
About the role:
- Provide efficient, timely, and high-quality project management services to all other sections across Council.
- Provide support to the organisation with a variety of projects for internal clients across all divisions of Council.
- Ensure procurement for projects is conducted with the NSW Local Government (Tendering) Regulation and Council’s Procurement Policy.
What's on offer:
- a base salary ranging from $95,331 per hour/annum with competency-based increments up to $109,716 per hour/annum, plus 11.5% super
- 2 maximum-term contracts up to 24 months, permanency may be offered based on operational needs
- 70 hours, 9-day fortnight
- training and development opportunities
- flexible work options for a healthy work/life balance
- generous employment conditions (we have too many to list - click here for more).
We are seeking:
- Degree qualifications in Engineering, Construction, or a relevant discipline.
- Strong project management skills with the capacity to manage multiple complex engineering projects.
- Expertise in contract management, including procurement risk assessment, tendering, evaluation, contract supervision, and project close-out.
About us:
- Located on the picturesque far North Coast of NSW, bordering the Gold Coast.
- The Tweed is a vibrant, diverse location offering a lifestyle near the water, in a rainforest or on a farm.
- Tweed Shire Council is committed to employment equity and diversity and encourages applications from people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds in both traditional and non-traditional roles. We provide workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options.
- Join an employer of choice. Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) has named Council the 2021 Employer of Choice for our great employment practices within NSW local government.
Where it's located:
This position is based in Murwillumbah and can be directed to work from any Council work site.
Position closes:
Friday 6 June 2025 at 12 noon sharp (NSW time). Late applications will not be permitted.
SK97188A
About Tweed Shire Council
Tweed Shire Council is the largest council on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Covering an area of 1300 square kilometres, the Tweed adjoins the local government areas of Byron, Lismore, Kyogle, Scenic Rim and Gold Coast, with the NSW–Queensland border to its north where it divides the twin towns of Tweed Heads and Coolangatta.
Council is the largest employer in the Tweed with a workforce of more than 750 employees across a wide range of professions. Through a budget of about $256 million, Council delivers more than 50 services to 41,500 ratepayers and almost 100,000 residents who call the Tweed home.
In late 2021, Council was named Employer of Choice by Professionals Australia (Local Government Engineers’ Association) for its great employment practices within NSW local government.
Professionals Australia recognises what workers throughout the region already know – people choose to work at Tweed Shire Council when presented with other employment opportunities due to its:
employment terms
great workplace culture
amazing location.
Aboriginal Acknowledgement – Tweed Shire Council wishes to recognise the generations of the local Aboriginal people of the Bundjalung Nation who have lived in and derived their physical and spiritual needs from the forests, rivers, lakes and streams of this beautiful valley over many thousands of years as the traditional custodians of these lands.
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