Title:  Senior Project Manager

When you choose AusNet, you’ll join genuine people working together, making Real. Progress

At AusNet, we’re the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.
 

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities, and Australia’s cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That’s refreshing.

We're looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our Group Operations team. In this role, you’ll lead the delivery of key business projects from start to finish — from design and build through to testing, implementation, and making sure the project is fully embedded in the business.

You'll be responsible for creating clear project plans and business cases, locking in timelines and milestones, identifying risks early, and keeping everything on track — on time, on budget, and safely delivered. Working closely with a wide range of stakeholders, you’ll build strong relationships and help teams stay aligned throughout the project lifecycle.

This role offers a flexible 3/2 hybrid working model (Southbank office and work-from-home), with occasional travel as needed.

This role will deliver real outcomes, including but not limited to:

• Ensures appropriate Governance frameworks and accountabilities are defined and in place
• Delivers in accordance with the AusNet Project Management Framework, Tools, Processes
• Maintains awareness of current business standards and processes and ensures all projects activities comply with the standards
• Strong financial and commercial acumen including the development of business cases for funding approval. procurement and supply chain (as required by project)
• Provides leadership, expertise and guidance to key stakeholders in project managing delivery of business/technology initiatives
• Consideration of customer needs and customer experience targets, as driven by business requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to create, build and grow stakeholder/vendor relationships
• Demonstrated ability to develop, coach, mentor, empower and support project team to achieve targets
• Safe delivery of assigned projects
• Effective project finalisation and handover to business as usual, with supporting training and documentation
• Actively collaborates to share insights, lessons learned and wins widely with others
   

You don’t need to check every box; however, we are looking for a good combination of:

• University degree in Business, Engineering or adjacent field
• PMI, AIPM or AXELOS Program and Project Management Qualification or Certification
• Demonstrated experience in end-to-end project management
• Proven experience delivering business projects e.g. business operations, operational excellence, workplace/property, compliance.
• Strong commercial acumen including business case development, socialisation and approval.
• Proven experience with implementing organisational change (people, process and technology)
• Significant stakeholder management up to and including Executive & General Manager
• Well-developed report writing and presentation skills
• Effective interpersonal, negotiating and facilitating skills
   

A real place to belong.

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, family day, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.  

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here’s what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we’ll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you’ve come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we’re excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you’re passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.