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About the Role
This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced capital works professional to bring commercial discipline, strong governance, and a clear resident-first mindset to UPA’s Major Works programme.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop the Major Works team, setting clear priorities, accountabilities, and delivery standards.
- Own programme governance across scope, cost, programme, quality, risk, safety, and benefits realisation.
- Provide clear and timely advice to executives, the Board, and project governance forums on performance, critical risks, approvals, and escalations.
- Oversee the full Major Works lifecycle, including business cases, design, approvals, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover, and defects close-out.
- Lead the financial and commercial performance of the programme, including capital budgets, forecast final cost, cashflow, contingencies, funding assumptions, and project returns.
- Guide procurement strategy, tender evaluations, negotiations, contract recommendations, claims, variations, and disputes.
- Build strong relationships with operational leaders, consultants, contractors, authorities, financiers, and community stakeholders.
- Ensure every project decision supports safe, high-quality care environments and UPA’s resident-first principles.
Requirements
- A tertiary qualification in construction management, project management, engineering, architecture, property, planning, or a related built environment discipline.
- Significant senior project or programme leadership experience delivering complex capital works in operationally sensitive environments.
- Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams, consultants, and head contractors across the full project lifecycle.
- Strong commercial acumen across procurement strategy, contract negotiation, cost forecasting, claims management, and capital governance.
- Demonstrated accountability for capital project financial outcomes and a deep understanding of NSW planning, building, WHS, and construction regulation.
- Executive-level stakeholder management, reporting, and communication skills.
- A valid driver’s licence and willingness to travel across NSW.
- Experience in residential aged care, retirement living, seniors housing, disability accommodation, health infrastructure, or another operationally sensitive environment will be highly regarded.
- Experience reporting to boards or capital investment committees will be highly regarded.
- Must complete a National Police Check.
- A Working with Children Check or vulnerable persons check may also be required depending on the project context.
Skills
- Commercial discipline
- Strong governance
- Resident-first mindset
- Programme leadership
- Commercial oversight
- Stakeholder partnership
- Financial performance
- Procurement strategy
- Contract negotiation
- Cost forecasting
- Claims management
- Capital governance
- Reporting
- Communication
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- Senior project or programme leadership
Education Level
- Tertiary qualification in construction management, project management, engineering, architecture, property, planning or a related built environment discipline
About the Company
- UPA is a mission-based organisation providing accommodation, care and support across residential aged care, retirement living, home care and community services.
- Our philosophy is that every person has the right to live in peace and dignity, with respect and security, irrespective of age.
- UPA’s Property Department is the custodian of a circa $350 million portfolio spanning 17 Residential Aged Care Facilities, 23 Retirement Villages and a range of other operational and non-operational assets.
- The team manages the full asset lifecycle, from strategy and development through to capital delivery, maintenance and facilities management.