Senior Manager Integration (Temporary Opportunity Up to 5.5 years)

You’re a leader who takes ownership and actively creates positive change.

You will be excited by the opportunity to manage whole-of-project integration across Sydney Metro West, aligning technical, commercial and delivery teams to strengthen testing readiness, manage risk and deliver enduring public value.

In this role, you’ll:

• Join the Metro West project, a new 24 km underground metro which includes nine new stations, stabling and maintenance facility and precast yards. The Tunnel Packages runs from Westmead through into Hunter Street. It is a complex project, with many significant stakeholders and unique challenges, connecting the Central River City to the heart of Sydney CBD. It is a once in a generation, city shaping project which will change how people live and work in Sydney.
• Provide project integration management across the full delivery lifecycle, connecting design, construction, testing, commissioning and operational readiness. You will maintain a whole-of-project view, ensuring complex interfaces, dependencies and emerging issues are identified and resolved early.
• Manage the delivery of integration activities within Sydney Metro West projects, by providing management and technical input in the delivery of integration activities to support time issue resolution and the successful management of contract interfaces
• Act as the project integrator, bringing together multidisciplinary leaders, technical specialists, contractors and delivery partners around a clear strategy. Through credible advice, purposeful engagement and constructive challenge, you will build alignment and drive coordinated decisions.
• Be involved in the monitoring of testing and commissioning readiness while maintaining disciplined oversight of cost, schedule, safety and delivery risk.
• Apply sound commercial judgement to strengthen risk mitigation, avoid unnecessary cost and support delivery within approved budgetary expectations.
• Operating with significant autonomy, you will influence senior stakeholders, manage complex contract interfaces and embed integration best practice across Sydney Metro West, contributing to safe, reliable transport outcomes for customers and communities.

This is a fixed term opportunity up to 5.5 years (2 vacancies), Transport Senior Service Manager TSSM level role. The Home Office for the Metro West project is the Integrated Project Office in the CBD, in addition to some time in the relevant local station project office.

Please view the Role Descriptionand information pack.

About you

• Significant experience integrating complex, multidisciplinary infrastructure or rail programs from design through construction, testing and commissioning.
• Experience across major infrastructure project phases: Procurement, design, construct, test, completion, hand-over, certification and how integration occurs in those phases.
• Experience in large-scale brownfield rail infrastructure in an urban environment.
• Strong project, program and contract management capability, supported by sound commercial and analytical judgement.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and bring together diverse project leaders, technical teams and delivery partners.
• Skilled in resolving complex interfaces, managing competing priorities and converting project risks into practical action.
• Strong understanding of cost control, budget scrutiny, risk mitigation and cost avoidance across major projects.
• Confident operating in complex stakeholder environments with integrity, resilience and a collaborative leadership style.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the structure of public and private transport industries in NSW, associated legislation and safety standards.
• Tertiary qualifications in engineering or construction, or equivalent professional experience.
• Able to meet the requirements associated with a Rail Safety Worker position.

Who we are

Sydney Metro is Australia's biggest public transport project and first fully-automated metro rail network, connecting customers and transforming the way Sydney travels. Our new generation of driverless trains are fast, safe and reliable, and link with Sydney's existing public transport network to provide seamless journeys. Our 46 state-of-the-art, fully accessible metro stations and precincts are designed to meet the evolving needs of our customers and communities.

With the City and Northwest Metro lines already in operation, works continuing to bring the Southwest line into operations and works well underway on the West and Western Sydney Airport lines, Sydney will enjoy a fully operational Metro network by 2032.

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