About the Role
Lead the successful delivery of major capital projects across a diverse property portfolio, managing projects from planning and procurement through construction, commissioning, and handover, ensuring delivery against scope, budget, programme, quality, and safety requirements. Coordinate multidisciplinary consultants, contractors, and internal stakeholders to achieve high-quality outcomes with minimal disruption.
Responsibilities
- Leading end-to-end project delivery from business case approval through to handover and defects close-out.
- Managing project scope, programmes, budgets, risks, quality, and compliance requirements.
- Coordinating consultants, contractors, and stakeholders across all project phases.
- Supporting procurement, contract administration, cost management, and construction delivery.
- Ensuring projects meet operational needs while maintaining a resident-first approach.
Requirements
- 5+ years’ experience delivering complex building, infrastructure or capital works projects.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, consultants and contractors.
- Strong knowledge of project controls, procurement, contracts, cost forecasting and risk management.
- Understanding of NSW planning, building and WHS requirements.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Relevant qualifications in project management, construction, engineering, property or a related discipline.
- Experience in aged care, retirement living, health, disability accommodation or other live operating environments will be highly regarded.
Skills
- Project management
- Construction management
- Engineering
- Property management
- Procurement
- Contract administration
- Cost management
- Risk management
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
Location
- NSW
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Relevant qualifications in project management, construction, engineering, property or a related 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.
- UPA is committed to creating safe, welcoming environments where people can live with dignity, respect and security.
- UPA's Property Department manages a circa $350 million portfolio including residential aged care facilities, retirement villages and other operational and non-operational assets.
- The Projects team delivers a diverse capital works programme, including developments, refurbishments, upgrades and compliance projects across NSW.
