Ironbark Sustainability is hiring!

We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our growing Smart Lighting Team. We’re seeking someone who is passionate, working in delivering real action to reduce the impacts in the field of climate change and wants to use their experience and expertise to make a difference. The Project Manager will be responsible for supporting council clients through the delivery of smart lighting projects under Ironbark’s Smart Lighting Program. Project types will typically include the development and delivery of large-scale bulk street lighting upgrades, smart lighting pilots and trials and small-scale lighting replacement projects and audits.

Our team have delivered projects that will save over 4 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and return $500m+ to councils who will spend this to the benefit of their communities.

The Project Manager will work within our team of 20-25 in the Smart Lighting Program and 40 organisation-wide. We’re seeking someone who is personable and will work well in a leading team of technical specialists and local government professionals who have one key aim: to help councils and their communities achieve real action on climate change.

The Project Manager will be located in Melbourne (Collingwood) but remote or flexible working arrangements will be considered.

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About You!

Ironbark Sustainability's Energy Efficient Smart Lighting Program is looking for an experienced project manager to join their team.

Candidates will ideally have 2+ years of project management experience in the field of public works, construction or infrastructure. Candidates with the ability to attend our Melbourne office at least once a week are preferred.

Please refer to the attached position description for more details. If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you:

• You are passionate about taking real action on climate change.
• You have 2+ years of project management experience in the field of public works, construction or infrastructure
• You’ve got experience in managing projects, including experience in:
  • Managing project finances and staying within budget
  • Delighting clients, managing expectations and working with other stakeholders
  • Facilitating meetings and workshops
  • Managing teams to deliver project outputs in a timely fashion and to a high quality
  • Ensuring risks and issues are appropriately mitigated and reported
• You’re an expert at developing accurate and timely reports. This could include project reports, proposals or presentations.
• You’re great at working with a wide range of stakeholders and are ready to work with councils, other levels of government, partner organisations, community groups and private entities.

What Will You do When You Join Our Team?

Firstly, you’ll be welcomed into the fold and we’ll bring you up to speed with the kind of work we do! Ideally, you’ll have already undertaken some research to understand how we deliver real action on climate and work with local government throughout Australia.

• You will learn a lot about how these projects work from our existing Project Managers to deliver projects for Australian councils.
• You will lead and manage project teams (of 2-5) with the view to achieving a great outcome for clients as well as contributing to the training, development and supervision of junior staff.
• You will be working with a wide range of external stakeholders to deliver projects including labour contractors, materials suppliers and distribution network service providers.
• You’ll talk to people – you’re going to be liaising with our wonderful council clients and Ironbark teammates.
• You’ll be writing reports, proposals and action plans – taking the data, models and evidence and developing high-quality and well-written documents.
• You’ll be managing implementation of our projects for councils – from inception to end, tracking all key time, cost and quality indicators.

A position description is attached.