Project Manager

Project Manager – Permanent Full Time – Perth CBD  

Join our Digital Products team as a Senior Project Manager and lead the implementation of our transformative Payroll and Timekeeping system. This highly visible project is central to our success and requires exceptional stakeholder engagement and change management expertise. Partnering with a technical project manager, you’ll focus on fostering strong relationships across our organisation, streamlining processes, and ensuring governance excellence within Western Power.

have proven enterprise-wide payroll system implementation experience and a knack for building trust across all business levels, we’d love to hear from you! This opportunity is a permanent full-time position.

Your Role in Action  

• Lead the delivery of a highly complex and critical payroll implementation project, ensuring it meets scope, timeline, and budget expectations without compromising on quality, including the effective management of contractors and suppliers.
• Drive a seamless transition of the project to business-as-usual operations, minimizing disruptions and ensuring effective change management to maximize the realization of project benefits.
• Oversee project financials with precision, maintaining, forecasting, and reporting Capex and Opex details with clarity and accuracy.
• Provide proactive, consistent updates on project status to key stakeholders and the Program Manager, while coordinating and guiding the project team through detailed resource plans and up-to-date schedules.
• Identify, assess, and actively manage project assumptions, risks, issues, and dependencies, developing and implementing effective mitigation strategies to ensure smooth delivery.
• Enforce robust project and quality assurance controls, conducting thorough gate checks to mitigate risks to delivery, cost, and quality outcomes.
• Conduct thorough stakeholder analysis, developing and executing tailored stakeholder management plans to build strong engagement and alignment.
• Foster and support high-performing project teams across diverse business functions, aligning efforts to achieve project and program goals. 

What Makes You a Great Fit 

• Broad and extensive knowledge as a Project Manager with demonstrated experience in IT and payroll implementation.
• Working knowledge of contemporary, industry standard project management methodology such as PMBoK or Prince2.
• A successful record of delivering complex, large value, high risk projects within a constrained timeframe.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to communicate with audiences of all levels.
• Detailed working knowledge of Project Management methods, tools and systems.
• Sound understanding of resource planning across multiple projects and team;
• High level of business acumen including strategic planning, finance and leadership skills.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including: 

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.  
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.   
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three additional paid wellness days per year. 
• Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office, perfect for cyclists.

• On-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day.

Applications close on 24 January 2025

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. Find out more about our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan. 

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