Job Description:

Role title: Project Manager

Role type: Maximum Term Full Time (until 31 May 2028)

Role grade: Health Service Manager, Level 3

Department and location: Sustainability and Infrastructure, St Vincent’s Public Hospital, Sydney

Salary: $137,525 .00- $156,231.00 + super + salary packaging

Welcome to St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney

Join a team built on a proud legacy of world-class care, true compassion, and deep community roots.

Founded by the Sisters of Charity and powered today by St Vincent’s Health Australia, the Sisters' legacy of compassionate service is our living heartbeat. As Sydney’s premier and iconic inner-city public hospital, we serve the entire population, providing world-class care to all people, including the most vulnerable in our community. Across our renowned precinct, we feature cutting-edge programs and surgery infrastructure, fostering clinical excellence and professional growth.

Located in the vibrant heart of Darlinghurst, we are positioned just minutes from Kings Cross station, with direct, high-frequency bus connections from the east, and seamless links from Gadigal and Museum stations right to our doorstep.

Read on to explore this exciting role and the fantastic perks waiting for you here.

About the role

• Lead the delivery of a diverse portfolio of major and minor capital works projects, including hospital fit-outs, refurbishments, compliance upgrades and infrastructure improvements within a complex, live hospital environment.
• Drive projects from concept to completion, developing project briefs, scopes, budgets, programmes and delivery plans to ensure successful outcomes that meet clinical needs, operational requirements and agreed timeframes.
• Work collaboratively with clinical, operational and support teams, consultants and contractors to coordinate project activities, manage stakeholder expectations and ensure projects are delivered safely and efficiently with minimal disruption to hospital services.
• Oversee project performance, including budgets, schedules, contracts, procurement, quality, risks and compliance, ensuring all works meet relevant Australian Standards, healthcare facility guidelines, statutory requirements and organisational policies.
• Lead project commissioning, operational handover and service transitions, ensuring appropriate documentation, training, asset information and ongoing operational requirements are in place, while driving continuous improvement across the capital works portfolio.

About you

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Project Management, Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, Building, Property or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• ·Demonstrated experience delivering client-side fit-out, refurbishment, capital works or infrastructure projects across the full project lifecycle, including planning, procurement, contract administration, commissioning and handover.
• Proven ability to plan and coordinate construction works in live, occupied or complex operational environments, maintaining safe access, service continuity, effective staging and minimal disruption to essential operations.
• Sound knowledge of Work Health and Safety (WHS), construction risks, infection prevention and control, statutory approvals, relevant Australian Standards and healthcare facility guidelines or comparable compliance frameworks.
• Highly developed project management, communication, negotiation, stakeholder engagement and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgement, build effective relationships and provide clear project reporting.

What we can offer you

• Exceptional Rewards: Competitive pay and not-for-profit salary packaging to maximise your income
• World-Class: Be part of a renowned precinct alongside the Garvan & Victor Chang institutes
• Excellence: Premier heart/lung transplant program, advanced robotics, & pioneering HIV/AIDS initiatives
• Cutting-Edge Oncology: Deliver advanced cancer care and trials at the renowned Kinghorn Cancer Centre
• Community: Support vital programs for First Nations, homelessness, mental health, & drug and alcohol care
• Professional Advancement: Accelerate your career with study leave and Curran Foundation scholarships
• Health & Wellbeing: Fitness Passport, discounted private health, & cultural recognitions and celebrations
• Coming from NSW Health?: Smooth transfer of your qualifying service and leave entitlements

Sponsorship / work rights for Australia

Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position. For this role you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or have an Australia visa that grants you the work rights necessary for the role.

Equal opportunity

We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

As part of our commitment to reconciliation, we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply and join us in delivering care that heals body, mind, spirit and community.

How to apply

The closing date for applications is 27 November 2026. Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.

Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting how your interest, skills, and experience align with each of the things listed in the About You section of this job advert. 

Respectfully, this role is not open to recruitment agencies.

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au

View Reconciliation Action Plan

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