IT Project Manager

Just imagine your future with us…

At Aurecon we see the future through a very different lens. Do you?

Innovation, eminence and digital are at the heart of everything we do. Are you excited about the future?

Are you driven by the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and complex projects around the world and to learn from the best? We are.

Diversity is at the core of everything we do. We work together to create a culture based on respect, trust and inclusiveness. Our differences are what fuel our creativity.

What will you do?

The IT Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of technology projects, coordinating business and technology stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams. The role manages scope, timelines, budget, risks, dependencies, governance, and reporting to ensure successful project delivery and transition to support.

Here are the key things you will do to ‘bring ideas to life’:

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with business, technology, vendor, and delivery stakeholders.
• Facilitate alignment on objectives, priorities, scope, requirements, timelines, and delivery outcomes.
• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes in a clear and timely manner.
• Foster collaboration across teams to achieve shared objectives.

Governance & Control

• Establish and maintain appropriate governance, reporting, planning, and delivery controls.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and change.
• Ensure compliance with organisational frameworks, standards, and approval processes.
• Provide accurate reporting and insights to support effective decision-making.

Core Delivery

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring outcomes are achieved within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and dependencies to deliver successful business outcomes.
• Drive proactive risk management, issue resolution, and escalation to maintain delivery momentum.
• Ensure solutions are successfully transitioned to support with clear ownership and documentation.

Adaptability & Ways of Working

• Adapt delivery practices and governance approaches to meet the needs and complexity of each initiative.
• Remain flexible and outcome-focused, contributing beyond traditional role boundaries where needed to support successful delivery.

What can you bring to the team?

Firstly, strong sense of responsibility, flexibility, and adaptability to varying request. Demonstrate excellent time management and organisational skills. And as part of a new team, you will have the opportunity to shape this role and have input into how we evolve it over time to WOW our employees and make an even bigger impact on the world. You will also need the following:

• Proven experience delivering technology platform, digital, and business initiatives in complex environments, with strong stakeholder management, governance, planning, and delivery leadership skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and coordinating delivery across business, technology, vendor, and support teams in Agile environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and influencing skills, with the ability to manage risks, issues, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Initiatives may be local, regional, or global and may involve single or multiple interdependent workstreams across digital platforms, enterprise applications, cloud services, data and integration capabilities, operational technology, and business functions.
• Experience delivering platform implementations, technology modernisation, digital transformation, upgrades, migrations, integrations, or operational change initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, suppliers, dependencies, and business outcomes. 

Qualifications:

• 5-7 years of experience in IT project management or a closely related delivery leadership role. 
• Proven experience delivering technology, digital platform, or business transformation initiatives within complex organizational environments.
• Practical knowledge of Agile delivery practices and project governance frameworks with experience managing scope, schedules, costs, resources, risks, dependencies, vendors & delivery reporting.
• Strong stakeholder, communication, facilitation, influence and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work effectively with dispersed technical teams and explain complex delivery matters effectively to business stakeholders. ·         Experience supporting procurement, supplier selection, contracts or vendor performance is desirable.
• Broad exposure to enterprise technology environments, including applications, platforms, or digital capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business or a related field.PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile certification is preferred, or actively being pursued. 

Our Aurecon Attributes describe the types of people we bring together for clients. We don’t expect you to have all eight of the attributes, but one that is unique to you.

Finally, we value that each of our team members brings something different to Aurecon. We look for people who have had a broad range of experiences throughout their career and can demonstrate how they have worked as part of a team to bring ideas to life. Does that sound like you?

About Us

We’ve re-imagined engineering.

Aurecon is an engineering and infrastructure advisory company, but not as you know it!

For a start, our clients’ ideas drive what we do. Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we co-create innovative solutions with our clients to some of the world’s most complex challenges. And through a range of unique creative processes and skills, we work to re-imagine, shape and design a better future.

We listen deeply and intently, which helps us see opportunities, possibilities and potential that others can’t.

Think engineering. Think again.

Want to know more?

You can learn more about what it’s like to work at Aurecon by visiting the careers section of our website.

If you are intrigued or excited by what you have read, then we want to hear from you. Apply now!