# Head of Projects | Mon to Fri 38hrs | Balcatta Support Centre

**Company**: Sodexo
**Location**: Western Australia, Australia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Head of Projects to lead the delivery of a diverse portfolio of works across the Western Australian Pilbara region.

As the Head of Projects, you will oversee the planning, execution, and successful delivery of a substantial project portfolio ranging from operational works through to major capital projects valued $200M+.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Safety Leadership: Champion a non-negotiable zero-harm culture across all projects and teams, ensure compliance with all safety, legislative, contractual, and organisational requirements, and drive contractor accountability.

- Portfolio Leadership & Delivery: Lead the successful delivery of a multi-million-dollar project portfolio across multiple sites and locations, provide strategic oversight of project performance, schedules, budgets, milestones, risks, and resources.

- Team Leadership & Capability: Recruit, develop, mentor, and lead high-performing project teams, foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

- Governance & Risk Management: Establish robust project governance frameworks, controls, and reporting structures, identify and proactively manage project and portfolio risks.

- Commercial & Financial Management: Manage portfolio budgets, forecasting, cash flow, and commercial performance, drive cost control initiatives and maximise profitability and value delivery.

- Stakeholder Management: Act as the key interface between clients, senior leadership, operational teams, contractors, and external stakeholders, build trusted relationships that support successful project outcomes and long-term partnerships.

- Continuous Improvement: Drive innovation and best-practice project management methodologies, standardise systems, reporting, and project delivery processes across the portfolio.

**Requirements:**

- Extensive experience delivering major project and program portfolios within construction, infrastructure, resources, facilities management, or related industries.

- A minimum of 5 years' experience in a senior project or program management leadership role.

- Demonstrated experience managing large-scale project budgets, forecasting, contract performance, and financial outcomes.

- Proven success leading multidisciplinary teams across geographically dispersed operations.

- Strong understanding of project controls, governance frameworks, risk management, procurement, and contractor management.

- Outstanding stakeholder engagement and client relationship management skills.

- Experience delivering projects within complex operational environments.

- Advanced capability across project management software, reporting platforms, and digital project tools.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- safety leadership
- portfolio delivery
- team leadership
- governance
- risk management
- commercial management
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- WHS (Mines) Regulations 2022 Statutory Supervisor Certification
- Certificate IV in Work Health & Safety
- Professional project management certifications

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