We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager to join our Health & Education team at Sunshine Coast University Hospital. This role offers the opportunity to lead the successful delivery of a diverse portfolio of projects that support critical healthcare infrastructure and services.
This is a long-term position within a stable contract environment, providing strong job security and the opportunity to build a rewarding career while delivering meaningful outcomes that directly support one of Queensland's largest healthcare facilities.
Reporting to the Program Manager, you will play a key role in the planning, coordination, and delivery of a high volume of projects each year, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end project delivery, ensuring scope, budget, schedule, safety, and quality objectives are achieved.
- Manage a diverse portfolio of capital, lifecycle, and infrastructure projects within a live hospital environment.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with clients, subcontractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders.
- Proactively identify and manage project risks, issues, and opportunities.
- Monitor project performance and provide clear reporting on financial, operational, and delivery outcomes.
- Ensure compliance with contractual, legislative, and safety requirements.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and best-practice project delivery across the Health & Education portfolio.
What You'll Bring
- A trade qualification and strong technical understanding of building services, construction, facilities management, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated experience successfully delivering a high volume of projects annually within complex operational environments.
- Experience managing projects within healthcare, education, facilities management, construction, infrastructure, or similarly regulated industries.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels.
- Sound commercial acumen, including experience managing project budgets, forecasts, variations, and reporting requirements.
- Well-developed organisational skills with the ability to prioritise multiple projects and competing deadlines.
- A strong commitment to safety, quality, and delivering exceptional customer outcomes.
Why Join Us?
- Long-term contract with strong job security.
- Opportunity to work within one of Australia's leading healthcare facilities.
- Diverse and challenging project portfolio.
- Supportive team environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- The chance to make a genuine impact on essential healthcare infrastructure and services.
Why Downer?
At Downer, we plan, create, and sustain essential public services across Australia and New Zealand. From hospitals to data centres and defence partnerships, we manage critical infrastructure that keeps communities thriving.
What It Means to Belong at Downer
We’re proud of our high-performance culture and commitment to diversity, offering:
- Training and development to support and diversify your career.
- With 30% of vacancies filled internally you’ll find real opportunities to advance your career.
- Perks@Downer: healthcare discounts, great savings on retail purchases, car purchases and much more.
- Employee Assistance Program: professional support for you and your family when you need it most.
You want your work to matter and so do we. With over 26,000 people across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, our team is made up of individuals with unique perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas.
We know that diversity makes us stronger and we actively celebrate it through our commitment to inclusion and belonging.
We’re committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities we serve and we welcome people of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, cultures, abilities, and lived experiences. We especially encourage applications from those whose voices have traditionally been underrepresented in our industry, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Māori and Pasifika Peoples, veterans, people with disability, and neurodivergent individuals. Even if your experience doesn’t align perfectly with this role, we’d still like to hear from you. If it feels like the right fit, apply - potential counts, and so do you.
As a WORK180 Endorsed Employer, we support flexibility that works for your life, inclusive leadership that values your voice, and equitable access to opportunity so you can do your best work and bring your whole self to it.
If you need support or adjustments through the recruitment process, just let us know, we’re here to help you put your best foot forward.
Skills Required
- Trade qualification with strong technical understanding of building services, construction, or facilities management
- Demonstrated experience delivering a high volume of projects annually in complex operational environments
- Experience managing projects in healthcare, education, facilities management, construction, infrastructure, or similarly regulated industries
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with ability to influence across all levels
- Commercial acumen including managing project budgets, forecasts, variations, and reporting
- Well-developed organisational skills with ability to prioritise multiple projects and competing deadlines
- Commitment to safety, quality, and delivering exceptional customer outcomes
What We Do
Downer Group is a leading provider of integrated infrastructure services across Australia and New Zealand, operating in sectors such as transport, utilities, facilities, and defense.
