Deputy Director, Testing and Commissioning

Company description:

About VIDA ROADS

VIDA Roads is delivering a massive investment in the state's roads. We're delivering major new road projects across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria while improving the roads people rely on every day.

North East Link will fix the missing link in Melbourne's freeway network with new 6.5 km tunnels from Watsonia to Bulleen. We're also overhauling the Eastern Freeway and completing the M80 Ring Road at Greensborough.

Road Programs are also delivering dozens of new roads, bridges, road widening projects and major freeway upgrades.

Come and be a part of our centre of roads excellence.

Job description:

VIDA Roads

SES2, Deputy Director, Testing & Commissioning

· 3 years fixed term, SES2 $298,489.00 - $430,740 TRP

· This role will be located at 180 Lonsdale street.

Join us in building better connections for Victoria by:

· Provides strategic professional expertise to the senior leadership team to ensure the delivery of strategies associated with managing a multi-billion-dollar road project with a high level of public scrutiny, while leading high-level stakeholder engagement and ministerial briefings, including representation at key forums.

· Actively manages and engages Project Co ensuring the effective administration of the Project Deed, including compliance, risk management, contractual frameworks, leading all commercial, financial and contractual discussions.

· Leads and oversees critical stakeholder engagement including being the key interface with the State Tolling Company, Department of Treasury and Finance, Project Co and VIDA Roads Commercial and Legal functional leads, ensuring timely resolution of project matters. Builds a culture of delivery and collaboration across the organisation.

· Provides decisive and confident direction on commercial, financial, government policy and industrial relations issues for the Central Package. Acts decisively and charts course of actions enabling teams to resolve challenging situations.

· Leads resolution of complex issues by applying strategic risk management, innovative thinking, and deep understanding of the broader business context to influence decisions and deliver major project outcomes, while maintaining strong stakeholder and senior government relationships.

This role will require close coordination and collaboration with Project stakeholders. The ideal candidate will act as a principal source of advice on commissioning, systems integration and operational readiness matters and leads the strategic planning, governance, assurance and delivery of commissioning, systems integration and operational readiness functions, ensuring successful transition from construction to operations and achievement of Operational Readiness, Commercial Acceptance and NELP Opening Readiness requirements.

This opportunity is a 3-year fixed-term.

It will be a requirement to travel and spend time at one or all our site offices.

For more details about this opportunity, please take a look at the Position Description here.

What can we offer you?

We are committed to creating a workplace that inspires and engages you - we want you to be a powerful contributor to this wonderfully diverse and dynamic organisation. Our offering continues to grow but here
is what we already have in store for you:

· VIDA Roads welcomes flexible working arrangements.

· Access to annual health checks, including skins checks and flu shots.

· Access low-cost gym memberships for yourself and family at over 200 facilities via Fitness Passport.

· Access to Thrive Gateway, our employee benefits platform is your once stop shop for wellbeing as well as savings and discounts at hundreds of retailers.

· We're committed to supporting our team members and their families in improving mental health and wellbeing. Our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides confidential counselling and advice for our team members and their families for work and personal issues.

· Annual salary increases and incremental performance-based payments over the course of your employment.

Need more information?

Paul Thomas - Director, Central Package Design & Construction - ••••@vida.vic.gov.au

How to Apply

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, apply now via the ‘Apply' button and follow the prompts. Applications to include a CV and preferably Cover Letter and will not be accepted via email. There is no need to provide any type of response to Key Selection Criteria separately, but we do encourage you to outline relevant experience and motivation for applying in your cover letter.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which include a national
police check and misconduct screening.

To be part of something meaningful and leave a positive legacy connecting Victorian communities,
apply for a role with us today.