Description:
The Project Manager – Capital Works is responsible for the successful delivery of nominated infrastructure and facility projects across Alpine Health’s sites. This includes overseeing a minor renovation of an aged care facility and leading the scoping and planning of future capital projects in alignment with strategic and operational needs.
The role is responsible for ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in compliance with relevant safety, quality, building, and aged care standards. Working closely with the Executive, site teams, contractors, and consultants, the Project Manager ensures that stakeholder requirements are met and that disruption to clinical and aged care operations is minimised.
The Alpine Health Project Manager – Capital Works maintains the following primary responsibilities:
Managing Self
- Establishes clear objectives, timelines, and deliverables aligned with the organisation’s priorities
- Demonstrates initiative adaptability, and professionalism in complex environments
- Actively seeks feedback and development opportunities
Managing Projects & Systems
- Manages end-to-end delivery of capital works and facility improvement projects.
- Develops and maintains project documentation including business cases, schedules, risk registers, budgets, and status reports.
- Coordinates and liaises with contractors, architects, engineers, and other consultants as required.
- Maintain relationships with government, funding agencies and coordinating bodies associated with capital works and improvement projects
- Ensures projects comply with Alpine Health’s procurement, financial, WHS, aged care, and regulatory obligations.
- Maintains close communication with impacted service units to mitigate operational disruptions.
- Identification and management of risk relevant to capital works and facility improvement projects
- Oversees commissioning, handover, and post-project evaluation processes.
- Provide regular advice to Managers, Directors, Executive, to ensure informed decision-making
Measurement
- Tracks project progress against scope, budget, timelines, and key milestones.
- Provides regular reports to the Director Corporate Services and relevant committees.
- Documents and shares lessons learned to inform future projects.
Making Things Happen
- Supports the development of an integrated capital works plan for future investment.
- Assists in preparing project scoping documentation for external funding submissions
- Ensures Alpine Health’s capital infrastructure reflects a commitment to quality, safety, sustainability, and person-centred design. Experience with infrastructure and capital works, or projects in a hospital or aged care residential facility a plus.
Customer Service
- Professionally interact with Alpine Health staff, contractors, and engaged professionals in the capital works and improvement projects
- Leading contribution to productive stakeholder relations
Essential
Selection Criteria:
- Tertiary qualifications in project management (or equivalent experience), construction management, architecture, engineering, health infrastructure planning or a related discipline
- Demonstrated experience in the successful delivery of capital or infrastructure projects
Desirable
- Experience in health, aged care, or public sector environments.
- Sufficient level of project management experience and demonstrated ability to plan and manage a project to successfully complete its listed goals and deliverables
- Experience in planning and undertaking community engagement with a wide range of stakeholders
- Good written communication skills and experience in preparing and submitting project management reports
- Understanding and commitment to quality, risk management and WH&S principles
- Good understanding and use of Microsoft Office products, including Excel and data management