Project Manager - Manufacturing

Our client is a well-regarded Australian electrical engineering and manufacturing business with a strong national reputation. They design and manufacture complex custom electrical products for clients across infrastructure, commercial and industrial sectors. Everything is handled in-house from engineering design through to fabrication, assembly and factory testing.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Project Manager will be the central point of contact between clients, engineering, procurement and production, owning projects from the moment an order lands through to final delivery and handover. This is not a coordination role. You will have full accountability for scope, schedule, budget and quality across your project portfolio.

• Reviewing contracts, tender documentation and client specifications at project handover

• Creating and managing project schedules in collaboration with engineering and operations

• Handing over to the design team and supporting engineers through the detailed design phase

• Overseeing and reviewing detailed engineering design prior to client submission

• Creating and issuing ITPs and ITTPs, performing peer reviews of drawings

• Managing procurement of equipment to ensure best price, best product and timely delivery to the manufacturing floor

• Handing over project packs to the workshop manager and team leaders

• Monitoring projects as they move through the factory, liaising with production staff

• Submitting RFIs, EOTs, NODs and variations in line with contract clauses and timelines

• Coordinating FAT and SAT activities and supporting commissioning

• Forecasting and reporting on project status, costings and variances to management

• Presenting work status at weekly operations meetings

Essential

• Proven experience as a Project Manager in a switchboard manufacturing, OEM or industrial electrical environment

• Strong technical understanding of LV switchboards, MCCs and power distribution systems

• Solid knowledge of AS/NZS 61439 and relevant Australian standards

• Experience managing full project lifecycles including contracts, schedules, procurement, production and delivery

• Comfortable with contract administration including RFIs, EOTs, NODs and variations

• Strong client-facing and stakeholder communication skills

• Commercially aware with the ability to manage budgets, costings and risk

• Full working rights in Australia

Desirable

• Electrical engineering background or trade qualification

• Familiarity with Siemens Sivacon switchboard product range

• Experience with ERP or job costing systems in a manufacturing environment

• Exposure to FAT, SAT and commissioning processes

• Full project ownership across a varied and technically complex portfolio

• Stable manufacturing environment with no site-based construction delivery

• Clear pathway into senior project delivery or operations leadership

• Well-regarded business with a strong national reputation in the switchboard market

• Collaborative engineering team in a structured but hands-on environment