Job opportunity

Come join the team at the new Department of Housing and Works.

The Department of Housing and Works delivers and maintains essential social housing and critical infrastructure across Western Australia—including schools, hospitals and police facilities.

We manage tenancy services, support housing provision in remote Aboriginal communities, and oversee government employee accommodation.

Through office accommodation solutions, State Fleet management, procurement, planning and asset policy, we empower other government agencies to deliver their best.

We actively encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, youth, people of diverse sexualities and genders, and culturally and linguistically diverse people.

We are committed to ensuring our hiring processes are inclusive. If you are an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person, a young person or a person with a disability seeking support with your application, please reach out to Jobs and Skills WA by calling 13 64 64.

If you are a person living with disability and require adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, please contact Cherie Rogers on (08) 6551 1979 or via email at cherie.rogers@dohw.wa.gov.au. You can also reach us through the National Relay Service.

When you join us, you can enjoy a variety of benefits, including:

• flexible work options, including working from home up to 2 days per week.
• professional development, training, and on-the-job learning to advance your career.
• generous leave entitlements, which include 4 weeks annual leave, 3 public service holidays each year, accrued long service leave every 7 years and an option to purchase additional leave each year. Access to cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• modern workspaces, where you choose your workspace that assists you to do your best work.
• access to activity-based work hubs in the CBD, Fremantle and Joondalup for ad hoc flexible work.
• corporate discounts with selected health insurance providers and access to wellness programs.
• Opportunity to support our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), Disability Access and Inclusion Plan, Indigenous Network, Gender Equity Champions Group, and Youth Working Group.

About The Role:

The Project Director (Design and Build) for the New Women and Babies Hospital Project (NWBHP) will be responsible for overseeing the managing contractor’s design and construction deliverables to ensure compliance with the contract and performance brief as well as to approved scope, budget, and timeframe parameters. The role will report directly to the Senior Project Director NWBHP.

The position holder will lead a multi-functional team including the State’s technical advisory consultants. The successful applicant will have demonstrated experience in the design management and contract management of complex, major infrastructure projects and evidence leadership behaviours that drive a ‘one team’ collaborative approach between the managing contractor and key agency stakeholders to achieve project objectives.

About You:

• You are a dynamic, self-aware, and resilient individual that achieves results and identifies opportunities for the Department to leverage.
• You will possess strong technical project management skills across the full project life cycle, including demonstrated experience in all aspects of major project delivery, including design management, contract management, procurement, scheduling.
• You are a well-rounded leader and effective manager of project teams and work groups and support team members to develop and implement processes, systems and model and drive behaviours that enable effective project delivery.
• You monitor and ensure compliance with government, agency and public sector policy and process.
• You establish and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders and contribute towards an innovative, customer focused, high-performing and values-led organisational culture.

This position operates in the context of Leading Leaders. This means you will be required to deliver results through leaders and your teams in a single business area, and by influencing leaders in other business areas. You will add value by providing direction and developing and coaching your leaders to achieve operational objectives. You will make decisions about how services should be provided based on the resources at hand.

How to Apply:

If you have what it takes to be part of our dynamic and forward-thinking team, submit the following in MS Word or PDF format only:

1. A comprehensive CV that shows your skills, experiences and key achievements, including the contact details of two referees (with one being your current or most recent supervisor).
   
   
2. Cover letter of two (2) pages or less, outlining how you meet the essential requirements of the role and demonstrate leadership behaviours.

Please ensure you apply before the closing deadline as we won’t accept late and incomplete applications.

Further Job-Related Information:

For further information about the position please contact Cherie Rogers on (08) 6551 1979 or via email at cherie.rogers@dohw.wa.gov.au (not to be contacted for Applicant Information Packs or assistance with lodging your application).

To assist you in preparing your application, please refer to the Applicant Information Pack, Job Description Form, and Leadership Behaviours. Additionally, the WA Jobs and Workforce Hub provides information on working in Western Australia. This includes guidance on applying for government sector jobs, industry insights, application tips, relocation resources, training opportunities, and apprenticeships.

If you are unable to view or download the documents, please call (08) 6557 8111 and select option 1, or email recruitment@dohw.wa.gov.au, mentioning the vacancy reference number VCID03213 for assistance.

Currently there is one (1) full-time, fixed-term appointment available for filling from November 2025 until September 2029, with the possibility of further extension(s) and/or permanency. Whilst this selection process will initially be used to appoint to this advertised vacancy, it may also be used to appoint to similar positions that may arise in the Agency within the next twenty four (24) months on a full-time, part-time, permanent or fixed-term basis with the possibility of further extension(s) and/or permanency.

The Department may conduct an Executive Search to supplement the field of applicants.