About the Role
CIP Terra Technologies is seeking a Project Management Office (PMO) Lead to manage project governance, planning, and reporting for a significant onshore wind and BESS project in Queensland, Australia, through its construction and commercial operation date. This role is crucial for providing structured coordination and decision-ready information to the project leadership team.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for the project’s governance, planning, reporting, and decision-coordination framework.
- Ensure baselines are maintained, decisions are tracked, and project leadership, SteerCo, and Board receive timely, consistent, and decision-ready information.
- Derisk multiple contract interfaces through active schedule management and effective communication.
- Act as the Project CEO’s PMO focal point, providing structured coordination across workstreams.
- Implement CIPTT’s project management standards and delivery model, establishing and maintaining PMO tools.
- Establish and coordinate the Project reporting cycle, including receiving contractor reports and compiling information for SteerCo, lenders, and counterparties.
- Own project governance, planning, and reporting, including cadence, forums, decision coordination, and SteerCo reporting preparation.
- Coordinate governance across the project’s multi-party delivery model, ensuring agendas, papers, minutes, and action logs support timely decisions.
- Coordinate project reporting systems and dashboards, ensuring data consistency for reporting.
- Align IPMT’s reporting cycles with owner’s reporting, avoiding duplication and ensuring data consistency.
- Own owner-side oversight of the integrated master schedule as the single source of truth.
- Review and assess progress measurement, critical path analysis, schedule float, and forecast completion dates.
- Track contractual milestones with commercial consequences and coordinate with commercial and contract-management leads.
- Coordinate the project controls operating model, ensuring alignment of baselines, forecasts, change control, risk, and opportunity reporting.
- Manage decision tracking and management visibility, ensuring key decisions, approvals, and actions are logged and followed up.
- Establish and maintain a working relationship with the IPMT’s schedulers, project controls, and reporting specialists.
- Support the transition of project management responsibilities between delivery partners.
Requirements
- A relevant degree or equivalent.
- A minimum of 8 years of full-time experience.
- Demonstrated experience in a similar PMO, project controls, or project services role on complex infrastructure projects.
- Deep understanding of project delivery, governance, planning, and control processes.
- Familiarity with integrated project delivery models and baseline management, including scope, schedule, risk, and change control.
- Detail-oriented with a structured and methodical working style.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex topics clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Skilled in facilitating collaboration and problem-solving across multidisciplinary teams.
- Proficient in navigating technical, commercial, and financial information.
- Experienced in managing reporting systems, documentation, and interface coordination.
Skills
- Project governance
- Project planning
- Project reporting
- Integrated master schedule management
- SteerCo reporting
- Project controls coordination
- Cross-contract interface visibility
- Project management standards implementation
- Stage gate management
- Execution management
- Progress measurement
- Critical path analysis
- Milestone tracking
- Delay event management
- Extension of time claims
- Cost control
- Risk management
- Opportunity reporting
- Change control
- Decision tracking
- Action log management
- Escalation management
- Interface management
- Document control
- Reporting continuity
- PMI certification or equivalent formal project management training (viewed positively)
- Renewable energy experience (viewed positively)
Location
- Brisbane, Australia
- Other locations in Australia
Work Type
- Office-based
- Periodic site visits
Experience Level
- Minimum of 8 years of full-time experience
Education Level
- Relevant degree or equivalent
About the Company
- CIP Terra Technologies is a project delivery company working for CIP, majority owned by the funds managed by CIP.
- Its purpose is to deliver best-in-class project development and execution services to the growing portfolio of land-based renewable energy assets.
- The company engages in the energy transition through specialist project delivery, value creation, and collaboration with trusted third-party suppliers.
- Core focus is the development, procurement, construction, and delivery of renewable energy projects.
- Provides services including technical development, engineering, supply chain, construction management, and project execution.
- Offers global support and a local presence in key markets.
- Teams deliver and refine services tailored to a wide range of technologies including onshore wind, solar PV, battery energy storage systems, bioenergy, thermal, and transmission infrastructure.
Equal Opportunity
- CIP Terra Technologies is committed to securing a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels respected and heard.
- A diverse workforce allows CIP Terra Technologies to achieve results through different approaches and solutions to task execution and problem solving.
- We want all our employees to have equal opportunities for personal growth and career opportunities regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, nationality, and ethnicity.
