Employment Status: Permanent, full time
Days & Hours of Work: Monday to Friday, totalling 38 hours per week
Competitive Salary: Band 7 - Total Remuneration Package from $128,241 -$143,662 per annum commensurate with skills and experience, including 12% superannuation
Location: Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with the flexibility to work from home

About Us:

We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Customer Experience and Results Matter.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving – and excited about our future – as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

About the Role:

Here at Bayside, we have adopted an exciting four-year capital program, and are on the lookout for an enthusiastic, driven and multi-skilled Project Planning Specialist to support the early scoping and planning of capital projects.

You will be responsible for working with Project Sponsors to develop ideas, solutions, costs and schedules on a variety of infrastructure projects including buildings, civil assets, urban streetscapes and foreshore infrastructure. This role is instrumental in setting up the organisation for successful delivery of the four year capital program.

Key Selection Criteria:

To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

• Proven experience in a construction/civil project planning
• Advanced understanding of scope development ensuring schedule, budget, quality and benefit objects are met
• The ability to collaborate effectively with project sponsors and stakeholders to outline a scope that identifies solutions that are cost-effective, sustainable and innovative
• Advance knowledge of cost planning of construction project
• The confidence and skill to effectively communicate both in written and oral communications
• The ability to multi-task project planning for a large portfolio of Capital projects

Mandatory pre-employment requirements:

• Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check
• Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check 
• Valid Victorian Drivers Licence

What we can offer you in return: 

• A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year
• Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts
• Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive
• A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach
• Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

How to apply:

1. To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description.
2. Provide a cover letter responding to the Key Selection Criteria and what has motivated you to apply for this role.
3. Click Apply to submit your application.
4. If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager.

Applications close:  Wednesday 30 July, 11:55pm

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or have any question, please contact James Roscoe, Manager Project Services on 03 9599 4419 or via email jroscoe@bayside.vic.gov.au

Bayside City Council prides itself on its values of Respect Each Other, Own It, Work Together and Find Better Ways.

Bayside City Council proudly acknowledges the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land, and we pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging as well as all Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community members with us today.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse and socially inclusive work environment. We actively encourage applicants with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with disability, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this opportunity.